Dictionary entry

πάροικος

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

πάρ-οικος, -ον,

[in LXX chiefly for גֵּר, תּוֹשַׁב;]

1. in cl. Attic, dwelling near, neighbouring; as subst., a neighbour.

2. 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).†