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Strong's G3581 · Greek

ξένος

xenos · xen'-os

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


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

ξένος (G3581)

14 ξένος , -η, -ον , [in LXX chiefly for נׇכְרִי ;] foreign , alien : δαιμόνια , Ac 17:18 ; διδαχαί , He 13:9 ; c. gen. rei, strange to , estranged from , ignorant of : Eph 2:12 ; strange , unusual : I Pe 4:12 . As subst., ὁ ξ. , 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 ; one of the parties bound by ties of hospitality; the guest ; the host ( = ξενοδόκος , Hom., Il. , xv, 532): Ro 16:23 .†

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

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