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Strong's #3581: xenos (pronounced xen'-os)

apparently a primary word; foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer:--host, strange(-r).




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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xenos

1) a foreigner, a stranger

1a) alien (from a person or a thing)

1b) without the knowledge of, without a share in

1c) new, unheard of

2) one who receives and entertains another hospitably

2a) with whom he stays or lodges, a host

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: apparently a primary word




Usage:

This word is used 14 times:

Matthew 25:35: "and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:"
Matthew 25:38: "When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked,"
Matthew 25:43: "I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and"
Matthew 25:44: "or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick,"
Matthew 27:7: "the potter's field, to bury strangers in."
Acts 17:18: "other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached"
Acts 17:21: "all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing"
Romans 16:23: "Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth"
Ephesians 2:12: "commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having"
Ephesians 2:19: "therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens"
Hebrews 11:13: "confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the"
Hebrews 13:9: "carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the"
1 Peter 4:12: "which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened"
3 John 1:5: "the brethren, and to strangers;"









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