What does μετοικεσία (metoikesía) mean in the Bible?
μετοικεσία (metoikesía) is a Greek word meaning "deportation".
Greek · G3350
μετοικεσία
Deportation
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μετοικεσία G3350
Pronunciation metoikesía
What does μετοικεσία (metoikesía) mean in the Bible?
μετοικεσία (metoikesía) is a Greek word meaning "deportation".
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render G3350?
The BSB source-word alignment has 4 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include exile (4).
Where does μετοικεσία (metoikesía) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 1:11. Its strongest book concentrations include Matthew (4).
Are there verse guides for μετοικεσία (metoikesía)?
This entry includes 3 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It exile 4× Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:12, Matthew 1:17
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Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Matthew 1:11
Aligned rows 4
Books represented 1
Matthew 4
Source forms
μετοικεσίας 3x metoikesias Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:17
μετοικεσίαν 1x metoikesian Matthew 1:12
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular 3x Matthew 1:11, Matthew 1:17
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular 1x Matthew 1:12
Key Verse and Form Guides
Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Matthew 1:11 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
μετοικεσίας metoikesias deportation The form helps the reader hear the phrase as a historical locator, emphasizing deportation as the setting rather than as the clause's main assertion. Read verse guide Matthew 1:12 Noun Accusative Singular Feminine
μετοικεσίαν metoikesian deportation The form supports a temporal reading of the phrase and helps the verse communicate historical sequence and continuity in the genealogy. Read verse guide Matthew 1:17 Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
μετοικεσίας metoikesias deportation The form anchors the phrase to one remembered event, so the genealogy reads as a carefully ordered account of Israel's history rather than a loose sequence of names. Read verse guide Evidence Summary
Greek word. deportation
Source Gloss
deportation
Extended definition Source: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
(= 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.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpus Greek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
4 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
metoikesiav
change of abode, migration, deportation
Read verse metoikesian
change of abode, migration, deportation
Read verse metoikesiav
change of abode, migration, deportation
Read verse metoikesiav
change of abode, migration, deportation
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 2 case and number patterns. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns 2 Aligned forms 4 Case pattern Genitive (3) Number pattern Singular (4)
Word Origins
μετοικεσία is built from these roots:
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain