A-1 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g3581 | Greek: xenos |
Stranger:
"strange" (see No. 1 above), denotes "a stranger, foreigner," Mat 25:35, 38, 43, 44; 27:7; Act 17:21; Eph 2:12, 19; Hbr 11:13; 3Jo 1:5.
A-2 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g245 | Greek: allotrios |
A-3 | Adjective | Strong's Number: g241 | Greek: allogenes |
Stranger:
(allos, "another," genos, "a race") occurs in Luk 17:18, of a Samaritan. Moulton and Milligan illustrate the use of the word by the inscription on the Temple barrier, "let no foreigner enter within the screen and enclosure surrounding the sanctuary;" according to Mommsen this inscription was cut by the Romans: cp. PARTITION.
Notes:
(1) For paroikos, in AV, see SOJOURN, B, No. 1. For parepidemos, in AV, see PILGRIM.
(2) The pronoun heteros, "other," is translated "strangers" in 1Cr 14:21 (2nd part), RV (AV, "other"); cp. STRANGE, A, Note.
B-1 | Verb | Strong's Number: g3580 | Greek: xenodocheo |
Stranger:
"to receive strangers" (xenos, No. 1, above, and dechomai, "to receive"), occurs in 1Ti 5:10, RV, "(if) she hath used hospitality to strangers," AV, "(if) she have lodged strangers."
Note: For epidemeo, in AV, see SOJOURNER, A, No. 2. For paroikeo, in AV, see SOJOURN, A, No. 1.
C-1 | Noun | Strong's Number: g5381 | Greek: philoxenia |
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