ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΥΣ, μετοικους
METOIKOUS, metoikous
Sounds Like: meh-TOY-koos
Translations: sojourners, resident aliens, foreigners, strangers
From the root: ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to resident aliens or foreigners who live in a city or country without full citizenship rights. They are not native inhabitants but have settled there. It is used to describe people who are living in a place that is not their homeland.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3359 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 14:291
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΣ.
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.
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΑΙΣΙΑ — change of residence, migration, deportation, removal, a change of dwelling
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΝ — sojourner, a sojourner, foreigner, a foreigner, alien, an alien, stranger, a stranger
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΣ — sojourner, a sojourner, foreigner, a foreigner, stranger, a stranger, resident alien, a resident alien
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΩΝ — of resident aliens, of sojourners, of foreigners
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