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Lexicon :: Strong's G3581 - xenos

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ξένος
Transliteration
xenos (Key)
Pronunciation
xen'-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently a primary word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 5:1,661

Strong’s Definitions

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


KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G3581 in the following manner: stranger (10x), strange (3x), host (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G3581 in the following manner: stranger (10x), strange (3x), host (1x).
  1. a foreigner, a stranger

    1. alien (from a person or a thing)

    2. without the knowledge of, without a share in

    3. new, unheard of

  2. one who receives and entertains another hospitably

    1. with whom he stays or lodges, a host

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ξένος xénos, xen'-os; apparently a primary word; foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer:—host, strange(-r).
STRONGS G3581:
ξένος, ξένῃ, ξένον, from Homer down, masculine a guest-friend (Latin hopes (of parties bound by ties of hospitality)), i. e.:
1. a foreigner, stranger (opposed to ἐπιχώριος, Plato, Phaedo c. 2, p. 59 b.; Josephus, b. j. 5, 1, 3);
a. properly: Matthew 25:35, 38, 43; Matthew 27:7; 3 John 1:5; ξένοι καί παρεπίδημοί ἐπί τῆς γῆς, Hebrews 11:13; οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι, Acts 17:21; opposed to συμπολίτης, Ephesians 2:19; (the Sept. for אֹרֵחַ, a traveler, 2 Samuel 12:4, Alex. manuscript; for נֵר, Job 31:32; several times for נָכְרִי). (as adjective with) δαιμόνια, Acts 17:18.
b. tropically,
α. alien (from a person or thing); without knowledge of, without a share in: with a genitive of the thing, τῶν διαθηκῶν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, Ephesians 2:12 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 30, 4, 6) (τοῦ λόγου, Sophocles O. T. 219).
β. new, unheard of: διδαχαι, Hebrews 13:9; ξένον τί a strange, wonderful thing, 1 Peter 4:12 (Aeschylus Prom. 688; Diodorus 3, 15 and 52; others).
2. one echo receives and entertains another hospitably; with whom he stays or lodges, a host: ξένος μου, Romans 16:23, where καί τῆς ἐκκλησίας ὅλης is added, i. e. either 'who receives hospitably all the members of the church who cross his threshold,' or 'who kindly permits the church to worship in his house' (Fritzsche).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Samuel
12:4
Job
31:32
Matthew
25:35; 25:38; 25:43; 27:7
Acts
17:18; 17:21
Romans
16:23
Ephesians
2:12; 2:19
Hebrews
11:13; 13:9
1 Peter
4:12
3 John
1:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3581 matches the Greek ξένος (xenos),
which occurs 14 times in 14 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:35 -

“ ‘For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you took me in;

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:38 -

“When did we see you a stranger and take you in, or without clothes and clothe you?

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43 -

“I was a stranger and you didn’t take me in; I was naked and you didn’t clothe me, sick and in prison and you didn’t take care of me.’

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 -

“Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or without clothes, or sick, or in prison, and not help you? ’

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:7 -

They conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:18 -

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also debated with him. Some said, “What is this ignorant show-off[fn] trying to say? ”

Others replied, “He seems to be a preacher of foreign deities” ​— ​because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection.

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:21 -

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time on nothing else but telling or hearing something new.

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:23 -

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.[fn]

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:12 -

At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:19 -

So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:13 -

These all died in faith, although they had not received the things that were promised. But they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:9 -

Don’t be led astray by various kinds of strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be established by grace and not by food regulations, since those who observe them have not benefited.

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:12 -

Dear friends, don’t be surprised when the fiery ordeal comes among you to test you, as if something unusual were happening to you.

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:5 -

Dear friend, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers and sisters, especially when they are strangers.

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