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: Mat.25:35, 38 25:43-44 27:7, Act.17:21, 3Jn.5; ξέίνοι κ. τάροικοι (opposite to συμπολῖται, οίκεῖοι), Eph.2:19; ξ. καὶ παρεπίδημοι, Heb.11:13;
(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)
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Dodson Greek Lexicon
alien, new, novel; noun: a guest, stranger, foreigner.
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a stranger
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strangers
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foreigners
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foreign
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has hosted
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of strange
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something strange
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strangers to you
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Verses containing G3581
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Some Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also began to debate with him. Some of them asked, “What is this babbler trying to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign gods.” They said this because Paul was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
All these people died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw them and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them.
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