Word Summary
metoikizō: to cause to migrate
Original Word: μετοικίζωTransliteration: metoikizō
Phonetic Spelling: (met-oy-kid'-zo)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cause to migrate
Meaning: to cause to migrate
Strong's Concordance
carry away, remove, exile to
From the same as metoikesia; to transfer as a settler or captive, i.e colonize or exile -- carry away, remove into.
see GREEK metoikesia
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3351: μετοικίζωμετοικίζω: future (Attic)
μετοικιῶ (cf.
Buttmann, 37 (32);
Winer's Grammar, § 13, 1 c.); 1 aorist
μετῴκισα;
to transfer settlers; to cause to remove into another land (see
μετά, III. 2):
τινα followed by
εἰς with the accusative of place,
Acts 7:4;
ἐπέκεινα with the genitive of place (
Amos 5:27),
Acts 7:43. (
Thucydides 1, 12;
Aristophanes,
Aristotle,
Philo (
Josephus, contra Apion 1, 19, 3),
Plutarch,
Aelian; the
Sept. several times for
הִגְלָה.)