- ξένος
- a guest-friend
- foreign
- ξένος
- new, novel, a foreigner
- alien, new, novel; noun: a guest, stranger, foreigner.
- ξένος
- foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer
Derivation: apparently a primary word;KJV Usage: host, strange(-r).
- ξένος
- foreign
- G:A
- ξένος, -η, -ον
[in LXX chiefly for נׇכְרִי ;]
__(a) foreign, alien: δαιμόνια, Act.17:18; διδαχαί Heb.13:9;
__(b) with genitive of thing(s), strange to, estranged from, ignorant of: Eph.2:12;
__(with) strange, unusual: 1Pe.4:12.
As subst., ὁ ξ.,
__(a) a foreigner, stranger:; ξέίνοι κ. τάροικοι (opp. to συμπολῖται, οίκεῖοι), Eph.2:19; ξ. καὶ παρεπίδημοι, Heb.11:13;Refs
Mat.25:35, 38 25:43-44 27:7, Act.17:21, 3Jn.5
__(b) one of the parties bound by ties of hospitality;
__α the guest;
__β the host (= ξενοδόκος, Hom., Ii, xv, 532) : Rom.16:23.†
(AS)
1) a foreigner, a stranger
1a) alien (from a person or a thing)
1b) without the knowledge of, without a share in
1c) new, unheard of
2) one who receives and entertains another hospitably
2a) with whom he stays or lodges, a host
1a) alien (from a person or a thing)
1b) without the knowledge of, without a share in
1c) new, unheard of
2) one who receives and entertains another hospitably
2a) with whom he stays or lodges, a host
ξένος
xenos
xen'-os
Apparently a primary word; foreign (literally alien, or figuratively novel); by implication a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer
KJV Usage: host, strange (-r).