# G3939 παροικέω

παροικέω (paroikéō), Strong’s G3939: to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner KJV: sojourn in, be a stranger. Occurs 66 times.

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*paroikéō* — to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner

KJV: sojourn in, be a stranger

Built from [παρά pará](https://besorah.bible/word/G3844) (near) + [οἰκέω oikéō](https://besorah.bible/word/G3611) (to occupy a house, i.e. reside)

Occurs 66 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Luke 24:18](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/24?v=18) — One of them, named Klofah, answered him, “Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who doesn’t know the things which have…
- [Hebrews 11:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/11?v=9) — By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob…
- [Judith 5:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/5?v=7) — They sojourned before this in Mesopotamia, because they didn’t want to follow the gods of their fathers, which were in…
- [Judith 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/5?v=8) — They departed from the way of their parents, and worshiped the God of heaven, the God whom they knew. Their parents…
- [Judith 5:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/judith/5?v=10) — Then they went down into Egypt, for a famine covered all the land of Canaan. They sojourned there until they had grown…
- [Sirach 29:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/29?v=24) — It is a miserable life to go from house to house. Where you are a guest, you dare not open your mouth.
- [Sirach 38:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/38?v=32) — Without these no city would be inhabited. Men wouldn’t reside as foreigners or walk up and down there.
- [Sirach 41:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/sirach/41?v=18) — of an offense before a judge and ruler, of iniquity before the congregation and the people, of unjust dealing before a…
- [2 Maccabees 12:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/2-maccabees/12?v=8) — But learning that the men of Jamnia intended to do the same thing to the Jews who lived among them,