Strong's Lexicon
G3581 — ξένος
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3581 |
|---|---|
| Word: | ξένος |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Etymology: | apparently a primary word |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 14 |
| Transliteration: | xenos |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | xen'-os |
| Meaning: | 1. foreign 2. (literally) alien 3. (figuratively) novel 4. (by implication, actively) a host 5. (by implication, passively) a guest |
| KJV Renderings: | host, strange(-r) |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ξένος, ξένῃ, ξένον, from Homer down, masculine a guest-friend (Latinhopes (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: Mat 25:35; Mat 25:38; Mat 25:43; Mat 27:7; 3Jn 1:5; ξένοι καί παρεπίδημοί ἐπί τῆς γῆς, Heb 11:13; οἱ ἐπιδημοῦντες ξένοι, Act 17:21; opposed to συμπολίτης, Eph 2:19; (the Sept. for àÉøÅçÇ, a traveler, 2Sa 12:4, Alex. manuscript; for ðÅø, Job 31:32; several times for ðÈëÀøÄé). (as adjective with) δαιμόνια, Act 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, Eph 2:12 (cf. Winer’s Grammar, § 30, 4, 6) (τοῦ λόγου, Sophocles O. T. 219). β. new, unheard of: διδαχαι, Heb 13:9; ξένον τί a strange, wonderful thing, 1Pe 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, Rom 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).
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Englishman's Greek Concordance
ξένος (host)
Matthew 25:35
- KJV: For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in
- GK: επείνασα γαρ και εδώκατέ μοι φαγείν εδίψησα και εποτίσατέ με ξένος ήμην και συνηγάγετέ με
Matthew 25:38
- KJV: When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in or naked and clothed
- GK: πότε δε σε είδομεν ξένον και συνηγάγομεν η γυμνόν και περιεβάλομεν
Matthew 25:43
- KJV: I was a stranger and ye took me not in naked and ye clothed me not sick and in prison and ye visited me not
- GK: ξενός ήμην και ου συνηγάγετέ με γυμνός και ου περιεβάλετέ με ασθενής και εν φυλακή και ουκ επεσκέψασθέ με
Matthew 25:44
- KJV: Then shall they also answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred or athirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister unto thee
- GK: τότε αποκριθήσονται αυτώ και αυτοί λέγοντες κύριε πότε σε είδομεν πεινώντα η διψώντα η ξένον η γυμνόν η ασθενή η εν φυλακή και ου διηκονήσαμέν σοι
Matthew 27:7
- KJV: And they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field to bury strangers in
- GK: συμβούλιον δε λαβόντες ηγόρασαν εξ αυτών τον αγρόν του κεραμέως εις ταφήν τοις ξένοις
Acts 17:18
- KJV: Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoicks encountered him And some said What will this babbler say other some He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the resurrection
- GK: τινές δε των Επικουρείων και των Στωϊκων φιλοσόφων συνέβαλλον αυτώ και τινες έλεγον τι αν θέλοι ο σπερμολόγος ούτος λέγειν οι δε ξένων δαιμονίων δοκεί καταγγελεύς είναι ότι τον Ιησούν και την ανάστασιν αυτοίς ευηγγελίζετο
Acts 17:21
- KJV: For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else but either to tell or to hear some new thing
- GK: Αθηναίοι δε πάντες και οι επιδημούντες ξένοι εις ουδέν έτερον ηυκαίρουν η λέγειν τι και ακούειν καινότερον
Romans 16:23
- KJV: Gaius mine host and of the whole church saluteth you Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you and Quartus a brother
- GK: ασπάζεται υμάς Γαϊος ο ξένος μου και της εκκλησίας όλης ασπάζεται υμάς Εραστος ο οικονόμος της πόλεως και Κούαρτος ο αδελφός
Ephesians 2:12
- KJV: That at that time ye 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
- GK: ότι ήτε εν τω καιρώ εκείνω χωρίς χριστού απηλλοτριωμένοι της πολιτείας του Ισραήλ και ξένοι των διαθηκών της επαγγελίας ελπίδα μη έχοντες και άθεοι εν τω κόσμω