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μετοικεσία

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Gloss: deportation

Transliteration: metoikesia

Strong’s: G3350

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.†
(AS)

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