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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: ὁ 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 TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:35 - ‘for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:38

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:38 - ‘When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe You?

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43 - ‘I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:44 - “Then they also will answer Him,[fn] saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:7 - And they consulted together and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:18 - Then[fn] certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign gods,” because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:21 - For all the Athenians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:23

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:23 - Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, a brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:12 - that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:19 - Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:13 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them,[fn] embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Heb 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 13:9 - Do not be carried about[fn] with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:12 - Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;

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Unchecked Copy Box 3Jo 1:5

Unchecked Copy Box3Jo 1:5 - Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and[fn] for strangers,
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