ΜΕΤΟΙΚΩΝ, μετοικων
METOIKŌN, metoikōn
Sounds Like: meh-TOY-kohn
Translations: of resident aliens, of sojourners, of foreigners
From the root: ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a resident alien or a sojourner, someone who lives in a city or country but does not possess full citizenship rights. They are often foreigners who have settled in a new place. It is used to describe a group of such people.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G3359 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 14 — 7:115
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
- ΜΕΤΟΙΚΟΥΣ — sojourners, resident aliens, foreigners, strangers
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