Lexicon metoikesia: change of abode Original Word: μετοικεσία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: metoikesia Phonetic Spelling: (met-oy-kes-ee'-ah) Short Definition: change of abode, migration, deportation Definition: change of abode, migration, deportation. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom metoikeó (to change one's abode) Definitionchange of abode NASB Translationdeportation (4).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3350: μετοικεσίαμετοικεσία, μετοικεσίας, ἡ (for the better form μετοίκησις, from μετοικέω) (cf. Winers Grammar, 24 (23))), a removal from one abode to another, especially a forced removal: with the addition Βαβυλῶνος (on this genitive cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 2 α.) said of the Babylonian exile, Matthew 1:11f, 17. (The Sept. for גֹּלָה i. e. migration, especially into captivity; of the Babylonian exile, 2 Kings 24:16; 1 Chronicles 5:22; Ezekiel 12:11; for גָּלוּת, Obadiah 1:20; Nahum 3:10. Elsewhere only in Anthol. 7, 731, 6.)
Strong's change of residence, deportation From a derivative of a compound of meta and oikos; a change of abode, i.e. (specially), expatriation -- X brought, carried(-ying) away (in-)to. see GREEK meta see GREEK oikos |
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