Quick Definition
I transport, cause to migrate
Strong's Definition
to transfer as a settler or captive, i.e colonize or exile
Derivation: from the same as G3350 (μετοικεσία);
KJV Usage: carry away, remove into
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μετοικίζω: future (Attic) μετοικιῶ (cf. Buttmann, 37 (32); Winer's Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); 1 aorist μετῴκισα; to transfer settlers; to cause to remove into another land (see μετά, III. 2): τινα followed by εἰς with the accusative of place, Act_7:4; ἐπέκεινα with the genitive of place (Amo_5:27), Act_7:43. (Thucydides 1, 12; Aristophanes, Aristotle, Philo (Josephus, contra Apion 1, 19, 3), Plutarch, Aelian; the Sept. several times for δΔβΐμΘδ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μετοικίζω metoikizō 2x
to cause to change abode, cause to emigrate, Act_7:4 ; Act_7:43
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μ Θ ετ -οικίζω
( < μέτοικος , an emigrant),
[in LXX chiefly for H1540 hi .;]
to remove to a new abode, cause to migrate: Act_7:4 ; Act_7:43 ( LXX ).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μετοικίζω [page 405]
With the use of this verb in Act_7:4 of transporting or transferring from one country to another cf. OGIS 264 .7 ἐκράτησεν τῶν Περγα [μηνῶν καὶ μ ]ετώικισεν αὐτοὺς πάλιν ἐπὶ τὸν κο [λωνὸν εἰς ] τὴν πα [λαι ]ὰν πόλιν , Syll 932 (= .8 880) .10 (A.D. 202) μετῴκισαν εἰς αὐτὸ οἱ ὑποτεταγμένοι , and Aristeas 4 περὶ τῶν μετοικισθέντων εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἐκ τῆς Ἰουδαίας . See also CR i. p. 7.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μετοικίζω "to lead settlers to another abode", Plut.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μετ-οικίζω
(μέτοικος, an emigrant), [in LXX chiefly for גָּלָה hi. ;]
to remove to a new abode, cause to migrate: Act.7:4, 43" (LXX) .†
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