Topic
Stranger and Sojourner (in the Apocrypha and the New Testament)
34 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
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- Judith 5:7ISBE
And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia, because they would not follow the gods of their fathers, which were in the land of Chaldea.
- Wisdom of Solomon 19:10ISBE
For they were yet mindful of the things that were done while they sojourned in the strange land, how the ground brought forth flies instead of cattle, and how the river cast up a multitude of frogs instead of fishes.
- Wisdom of Solomon 19:13ISBE
And punishments came upon the sinners not without former signs by the force of thunders: for they suffered justly according to their own wickedness, insomuch as they used a more hard and hateful behaviour toward strangers.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 8:18ISBE
Do no secret thing before a stranger; for thou knowest not what he will bring forth.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 16:8ISBE
Neither spared he the place where Lot sojourned, but abhorred them for their pride.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 29:26ISBE
Come, thou stranger, and furnish a table, and feed me of that thou hast ready.
- Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 41:19ISBE
And of theft in regard of the place where thou sojournest, and in regard of the truth of God and his covenant; and to lean with thine elbow upon the meat; and of scorning to give and take;
- Baruch 6:5ISBE
Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them.
- 1 Maccabees 1:38ISBE
Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.
- 1 Maccabees 2:7ISBE
He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?
- 1 Maccabees 3:45ISBE
Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe…
- 1 Maccabees 4:12ISBE
Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.
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- 1 Esdras 8:83 ISBE
- Matthew 17:25 ISBE
- Matthew 17:26 ISBE
- Matthew 25:35 ISBE
- Luke 17:18 ISBE
- Luke 24:18 ISBE
- John 10:5 ISBE
- Acts 2:10 ISBE
- Acts 7:6 ISBE
- Acts 7:26 ISBE
- Acts 10:28 ISBE
- Acts 13:17 ISBE
- Acts 17:21 ISBE
- Ephesians 2:12 ISBE
- Ephesians 2:19 ISBE
- Ephesians 4:18 ISBE
- Colossians 1:21 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:9 ISBE
- Hebrews 11:13 ISBE
- 1 Peter 1:1 ISBE
- 1 Peter 1:17 ISBE
- 1 Peter 2:11 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 36 references
The technical meaning attaching to the Hebrew terms is not present in the Greek words translated "stranger" and "sojourner," and the distinctions made by English Versions of the Bible are partly only to give uniformity in the translation. For "stranger" the usual Greek word is xenos, meaning primarily "guest" and so appearing in the combination "hatred toward guests" in The Wisdom of Solomon 19:13 (misoxenia). Xenos is the most common word for "stranger" in the New Testament (Mt 25:35, etc.), but it seems not to be used by itself with this force in the Apocrypha. Almost equally common in the New Testament is allotrios, "belonging to another" (Mt 17:25,26; Joh 10:5 (bis)), and this is the usual word in the Apocrypha (Sirach 8:18; 1 Macc 1:38, etc.), but for some inexplicable reason the Revised Version (British and American) occasionally translates by "alien" (contrast, e.g. 1 Macc 1:38; 2:7). Compare the corresponding verb apallotrioo (Eph 2:12; 4:18; Col 1:21). With the definite meaning of "foreigner" are allogenes, "of another nation," the Revised Version (British and American) "stranger" (1 Esdras 8:83; 1 Macc 3:45 (the King James Version "alien"); Lu 17:18 (the Revised Version margin "alien")), and allophulos, "of another tribe," the Revised Version (British and American) "stranger" (Baruch 6:5; 1 Macc 4:12, etc.) or "of another nation" (Ac 10:28). For "to sojourn" the commonest form is paroikeo, "to dwell beside," the Revised Version (British and American) always "to sojourn" (Judith 5:7; Sirach 41:19; Lu 24:18 (the King James Version "to be a stranger"); Heb 11:9). The corresponding noun for "sojourner" is paroikos (Sirach 29:26 f (the King James Version "stranger"); Ac 7:6,26; Eph 2:19; 1Pe 2:11), with paroikia, "sojourning" (The Wisdom of Solomon 19:10; Sirach 16:8; Ac 13:17 (the King James Version "dwelling as strangers"); 1Pe 1:17). In addition, epidemeo, "to be among people," is translated "to sojourn" in Ac 2:10; 17:21, and its compound parepidemos, as "sojourner" in 1Pe 1:1 (in Heb 11:13; 1Pe 2:11, "pilgrim").
Burton Scott Easton
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.