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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G3581 — ξένος
xenos · foreign · Greek
14 tagged verse occurrences
Matthew 25:35 · ξένοςfor I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in.Matthew 25:38 · ξένονWhen did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?Matthew 25:43 · ξένοςI was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’Matthew 25:44 · ξένον“Then they will also answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn’t help you?’Matthew 27:7 · ξένοις.They took counsel, and bought the potter’s field with them, to bury strangers in.Acts 17:18 · ξένωνSome of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.Acts 17:21 · ξένοιNow all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.Romans 16:23 · ξένοςGaius, my host and host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, as does Quartus, the brother.Ephesians 2:12 · ξένοιthat you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.Ephesians 2:19 · ξένοιSo then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,Hebrews 11:13 · ξένοιThese all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.Hebrews 13:9 · ξέναιςDon’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.1 Peter 4:12 · ξένουBeloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.3 John 1:5 · ξένους,Beloved, you do a faithful work in whatever you accomplish for those who are brothers and strangers.