Quick Definition
change of abode, migration, deportation
Strong's Definition
a change of abode, i.e. (specially), expatriation
Derivation: from a derivative of a compound of G3326 (μετά) and G3624 (οἶκος);
KJV Usage: X brought, carried(-ying) away (in-)to
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μετοικεσία, 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 1:11 f, 17 . (The Sept. for βΙΜμΘδ i. e. migration, especially into captivity; of the Babylonian exile, 2Ki_24:16; 1Ch_5:22; Eze_12:11; for βΘΜμεΜϊ, Oba_1:20; Nah_3:10. Elsewhere only in Anthol. 7, 731, 6.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μετοικεσία metoikesia 4x
change of abode or country, migration, Mat_1:11-12 ; Mat_1:17
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μετοικεσία , -ας , ἡ
( = cl . μετολκία , -κησις ; < μετοικέω , to change one's abode ),
[in LXX chiefly for H1473 and cogn . forms, Eze_12:11 , Oba_1:20 , al. ;]
change of abode, migration: of the Babylonian exile, μ . Βαβυλῶνος , Mat_1:11-12 ; Mat_1:17 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μετοικεσία [page 405]
μετοικεσία , transportation, deportation. The verb μετοικέω is supplied by A. W. Mair and W. M. Ramsay in a Phrygian epitaph of about the middle of iv/A.D. in honour of C. Calpurnius Collega Macedo θεοῦ προνοίᾳ καὶ ἱερῶν ἀνγέλων συνοδίᾳ με [τοικήσαντα ] εἰς [ο ]ὐρανὸν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων (see CR xxxiii. p. 2).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μετοικεσία μετοικεσία, ἡ, = μετοικία 1, Anth. :—"the Removal or Captivity" of the Jews, NTest.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μετοικεσία, -ας, ἡ
(= cl. μετολκία, -κησις; μετοικέω, to change one's abode), [in LXX chiefly for גּוֹלָה and cogn. forms, Eze.12:11, Ob 20, al. ;]
change of abode, migration: of the Babylonian exile, μ. Βαβυλῶνος, Mat.1:11-12, 17.†
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