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Strong's G3941 πάροικος (paroikos)

Paroikos means “foreigner” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3941 — lappidoth in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3941
Language Greek
Linked Usages 32
Books 15

Strong's G3941 Quick Answer

Strong's G3941 πάροικος (paroikos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. paroikos (par'-oy-kos) adj. 1. having a home near 2. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident) It has 32 linked Bible usages across 15 books. Visible English usage signals include sojourn and foreigners. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
paroikos (par'-oy-kos) adj. 1. having a home near 2. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)
Usage
32 linked usages
Books
15 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
sojourn and foreigners

Meaning and Definition

paroikos (par'-oy-kos) adj. 1. having a home near 2. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident) [from G3844 and G3624] KJV: foreigner, sojourn, stranger Root(s): G3844, G3624

Original Word
πάροικος
Transliteration
paroikos
Derivation
Root: οἶκος R1: 3844 R2: 3624
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3941. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

foreigner

Usage: άρ-οικος, -ον [in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשָׁב ;] __1. in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour. __2. In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Iuser. (Deiss., BS, 227 f.; Kennedy, Sources, 102), foreign, alien; as subst., an alien, a sojourner: Act.7:6 (LXX), Act.7:29; metapb., ξένοι καὶ π. (opposite to συμπολίτης), Eph.2:19; π. καὶ παρεπιδήμους (which see), 1Pe.2:11 (see Lft. on Clem. Rom., 1 Co., § 1).† (AS)

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How Strong's G3941 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render paroikos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

foreigners Ephesians 2:19 sojourn Acts 7:6

How Strong's G3941 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 24 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3941 (πάροικος) appears 29 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3941 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3941 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Acts 7:6 KJV

And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

Acts 7:29 KJV

Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.

Ephesians 2:19 KJV

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Strong's G3941 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

24 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 15:13 Septuagint / Brenton

And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.

Genesis 23:4 Septuagint / Brenton

I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.

Exodus 2:22 Septuagint / Brenton

And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

Strong's G3941 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Judith 4:10 Septuagint / Brenton

both they, and their wives, and their children, and their cattle, and every stranger and hireling, and their servants bought with money, put sackcloth upon their loins.

Baruch 4:9 Septuagint / Brenton

For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Zion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;

Baruch 4:14 Septuagint / Brenton

Let them that dwell about Zion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.

Usage Excerpts

First 32 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3941.

Genesis 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it was said to Abram, Thou shalt surely know that thy seed shall be a sojourner in a land not their own, and they shall enslave them, and afflict them, and humble them four hundred years.
Genesis 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.
Exodus 2:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gershom, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.
Exodus 12:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
A sojourner or hireling shall not eat of it.
Exodus 18:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and her two sons: the name of the one was Gershom, his father saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land—
Leviticus 22:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.
Leviticus 25:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Sabbaths of the land shall be food for thee, and for thy manservant, and for thy maidservant, and thy hireling, and the stranger that abides with thee.
Leviticus 25:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the land shall not be sold for a permanence; for the land is mine, because ye are strangers and sojourners before me.
Leviticus 25:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thy brother who is with thee become poor, and he fail in resources with thee, thou shalt help him as a stranger and a sojourner, and thy brother shall live with thee.
Leviticus 25:40 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He shall be with thee as a hireling or a sojourner, he shall work for thee till the year of release:
Leviticus 25:45 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And of the sons of the sojourners that are among you, of these ye shall buy and of their relations, all that shall be in your lands; let them be to you for a possession.
Leviticus 25:47 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if a stranger or sojourner with thee wax rich, and thy brother in distress be sold to the stranger or the sojourner that is with thee, or to a proselyte by extraction;
Numbers 35:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
It shall be a place of refuge for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for him that sojourns among you; these cities shall be for a place of refuge, for every one to flee thither who has killed a man unintentionally.
Deuteronomy 14:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother’s milk.
Deuteronomy 23:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite, because he is thy brother; thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land.
2 Kingdoms 1:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And David said to the young man who brought the tidings to him, Whence art thou? and he said, I am the son of an Amalekite sojourner.
1 Chronicles 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the days of Saul they made war upon the sojourners in the land; and they fell into their hands, all of them dwelling in their tents eastward of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
for we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days upon the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Psalms 38:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, hearken to my prayer and my supplication: Attend to my tears: be not silent, For I am a sojourner in the land, And a stranger, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 104:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
When they were few in number, Very few, and sojourners in it.
Psalms 118:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am a stranger in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.
Jeremiah 14:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, thou art the hope of Israel, and deliverest us in time of troubles; why art thou become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting place?
Jeremiah 30:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As Sodom was overthrown and Gomorrah and they that sojourned in her, saith the Lord Almighty, no man shall dwell there, nor shall any son of man inhabit there.
Zephaniah 2:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to them that dwell on the border of the sea, neighbors of the Cretans! the word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines, and I will destroy you out of your dwelling place.
Acts 7:6 New Testament, KJV
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
Acts 7:29 New Testament, KJV
Then fled Moses at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Madian, where he begat two sons.
Ephesians 2:19 New Testament, KJV
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
1 Peter 2:11 New Testament, KJV
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Judith 4:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
both they, and their wives, and their children, and their cattle, and every stranger and hireling, and their servants bought with money, put sackcloth upon their loins.
Baruch 4:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For when she saw the wrath of God coming upon you, she said, Hearken, O ye that dwell about Zion: God hath brought upon me great mourning;
Baruch 4:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let them that dwell about Zion come, and remember ye the captivity of my sons and daughters, which the Everlasting hath brought upon them.
Baruch 4:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Like as now the neighbors of Zion have seen your captivity: so shall they see shortly your salvation from your God, which shall come upon you with great glory, and brightness of the Everlasting.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3941, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zephaniah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Ephesians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Baruch 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3941 FAQ

What does paroikos (πάροικος) mean?

Paroikos (Strong's G3941) is a Greek word most simply glossed "foreigner". paroikos (par'-oy-kos) adj. 1. having a home near 2. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)

How many times is paroikos (πάροικος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 32 linked usages for Strong's G3941 across 15 books.

Where can I study paroikos (πάροικος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3941 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate paroikos (πάροικος)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sojourn and foreigners. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3941 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 24 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3941, with linked reader references where each row is available.