Quick Definition
πάροικος, ον Adj a stranger, foreigner
Strong's Definition
from 3844 and 3624; having a home near, i.e. (as noun) a by-dweller (alien resident)
KJV Usage: foreigner, sojourn, stranger
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | οἰκέω
11.77 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · Socio-Political
alien, stranger, temporary resident (derivative of παροικέω[b] ‘to live as a foreigner,’ 85.78) a person who for a period of time lives in a place which is not his normal residence In ACT 7:6 the expression ‘as strangers in a foreign country’ may be rendered ‘as strangers living in a country which was not their own.’ Similarly, ‘who live as aliens’ may also be rendered as ‘who live in countries not their own’ or ‘who live with people to whose nation they do not belong.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
πάρ-οικος, -ov, (παρά and οἶκος) ; 1. in class. Grk. dwelling near, neighboring. 2. in the Scriptures a stranger, foreigner, one who lives in a place without the right of citizenship ; [R. V. sojourner]; Sept. for 93 and AW) (see παροικέω 2, and παροικία, [and cf. Schmidt, Syn. 43,5; L.and S.s.v.]): foll. by ἐν w. dat. of place, Acts vii. 6, 29; metaph. without citizenship in God’s kingdom : joined with ξένος and opp. to συμπολίτης, Eph. ii. 19 (μόνος κύριος ὁ θεὸς πολίτης ἐστί, πάροικον δὲ καὶ ἐπήλυτον τὸ γενητὸν ἅπαν, Philo de cherub. § 34 [οἷς Mangey i. 161 note]); one who lives on earth as a stranger, a sojourner on the earth: joined with παρεπίδημος (q. ν.), of Christians, whose fatherland is heaven, 1 Pet.ii.11. [Cf. Ep. ad Diognet. § 5, 5.]
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
πάροικος paroikos 4x
a neighbor; later, a sojourner, temporary resident, stranger, Acts 7:6, 29; Eph. 2:19; 1 Pet. 2:11*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
πάρ-οικος, -ον,
[in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשַׁב;]
in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour.
In late writers (LXX, Philo) and in Inscr. (Deiss., BS, 227 f.; Kennedy, Sources, 102), foreign, alien; as subst., an alien, a sojourner: Ac 7:6(LXX), 29; metaph., ξένοι καὶ π. (opp. to συμπολίτης), Eph 2:19; π. καὶ παρεπιδήμους (q.v.), I Pe 2:11 (v. Lft. on Clem. Rom., 1 Co., § 1).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
πάροικος. Hicks (ΟΝ i. p. 5f.) has shown that πάροικος, while never losing the idea of ‘‘a sojourner,” ‘a stranger” (see σῦν. παροικέω, παροικία), is often found in the inscrr. in the sense of the classical μέτοικος to denote ‘a licensed sojourner ” in a town, ** whose protection and status were secured by the payment of a small tax,” as contrasted with ξένος, a mere passing stranger (cf. ΠΕ Ρἢ 215). Add to Hicks’s reff., as bringing out the mixed character of the population in Graeco-Roman towns, an inscr. from Priene (cited by Rouffiac, p. 45), Priene 113% (after B.c. 84), where Zosimus promises to invite τούς τε πολίτας πάντας καὶ πα[ροίκους καὶ κατοίκ]ους καὶ Ῥωμαίους καὶ ξένους καὶ δούλους, and later is praised for offering them a festival, 2m δειπνιεῖν yap τοὺς πο[λ]ίτας πάντας κατὰ φυλὰς Kal τοὺς ἐφηβευκότας τῶν παροίκων καὶ κατοίκων καὶ Ρωμαίους πάντας καὶ τοὺς παρεπιδημοῦντας ᾿Αθηναίων κτλ. See also OG/S ᾿ς 29 (p.c. 247-221) with Dittenberger’s note, along with Deissmann SS p. 227f. and Kennedy Sources p. 102.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
πάροικος (paroikos) — foreigner. πάροικος, ον, dwelling beside or near, neighbouring, with genitive, Κάδμου πάροικοι.. δόμων [Refs 5th c.BC+]; neighbour, οὐκ ἀσίνης π. [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Ἀττικὸς π., proverbial of a restless neighbour, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. π. πόλεμος war with neighbours, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. foreign, alien, [LXX+NT]: as substantive, sojourner in another's house, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]: generally, alien, stranger, [LXX]: in later Greek, ={μέτοικος}, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; = colonus, [Refs 4th c.AD+]