πάροικος pároikos
Meaning
having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)
In the King James Version: foreigner, sojourn, stranger
Derivation: from G3844 (παρά) and G3624 (οἶκος);
Where it is used
- Acts 7:6 God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- Acts 7:29 At this remark, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he lived as a foreigner and had two sons.
- Ephesians 2:19 Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,
- 1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.