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ξένος (G3581)

xénos

xen'-os

apparently a primary word; foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer:--host, strange(-r).

Abbott–Smith

ξένος, -η, -ον, [in LXX chiefly for נׇכְרִי;]
(a) foreign, alien: δαιμόνια, Ac 17:18; διδαχαί, He 13:9;
(b) c. gen. rei, strange to, estranged from, ignorant of : Eph 2:12;
(c) strange, unusual: I Pe 4:12.
As subst., ὁ ξ.,
(a) a foreigner, stranger: Mt 25:35, 38, 43, 44 27:7, Ac 17:21, III Jo 5; ξένοι κ. τάροικοι (opp. to συμπολῖται, οίκεῖοι), Eph 2:19; ξ. καὶ παρεπίδημοι, He 11:13;
(b) one of the parties bound by ties of hospitality;
α the guest;
β the host ( = ξενοδόκος, Hom., Il., xv, 532): Ro 16:23.†

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.


14 occurrences

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  • Matthew 25:35
    For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
  • Matthew 25:38
    When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
  • Matthew 25:43
    I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
  • Matthew 25:44
    Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?
  • Matthew 27:7
    And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
  • Acts 17:18
    Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
  • Acts 17:21
    (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
  • Romans 16:23
    Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
  • Ephesians 2:12
    That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
  • Ephesians 2:19
    Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;