From metoikos (a settler in a foreign land). To cause someone to change their dwelling, to deport, to exile. Used in Acts 7 of the Babylonian exile.
Stephen recounts in his speech that God warned Israel: 'I will carry you away beyond Babylon' (Acts 7:43). This deportation was divine judgment for idolatry. Yet even in exile, God preserved His people and eventually restored them. The word teaches that disobedience has consequences, but God's covenant faithfulness endures even through judgment.