ΜΕΤΟΙΚΕΙΝ, μετοικειν
METOIKEIN, metoikein
Sounds Like: meh-TOY-kane
Translations: to migrate, to remove, to change one's dwelling, to cause to migrate, to transport
From the root: ΜΕΤΟΙΚΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to change one's dwelling place, to migrate, or to remove from one place to another. It can also mean to cause someone else to migrate or to transport them. It is a compound word formed from μετά (meta), meaning 'with' or 'after' and indicating change, and οἰκέω (oikeō), meaning 'to dwell' or 'to inhabit'. It is used to describe the act of moving from one home or country to another.
Inflection: Present, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G3346 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 7:157
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 18:31
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΟΙΚΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΕΩ — to migrate, to remove, to change one's dwelling, to dwell as a foreigner
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΗΣΑΙΝΤΟ — to migrate, to remove, to change one's dwelling, to transport, to carry away
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΑ — having migrated, having moved, having removed, having resettled
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΙΟΥΣΙΝ — they will migrate, they will remove, they will deport, they will cause to migrate, they will cause to remove
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of sojourners, of resident aliens, of those dwelling as foreigners
- ΜΕΤΩΚΗΚΑΣ — you have migrated, you have moved, you have removed, you have changed your dwelling
- ΜΕΤΩΚΗΣΑΝ — they migrated, they removed, they resettled, they transplanted
- ΜΕΤΩΚΗΣΕ — migrated, removed, moved, settled elsewhere
- ΜΕΤΩΚΗΣΕΝ — he migrated, he removed, he moved away, he transferred
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