G3581: ξένος
xénos · “foreign”
Definition
foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer
KJV translates it as: host, strange(-r)
Word origin: apparently a primary word;
Extended definition
[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)
Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon (1922) via STEPBible TBESG (CC BY 4.0).
How G3581 is translated
- a stranger ×4
- strangers ×4
- strangers. ×1
- of foreign ×1
- host ×1
- strange ×1
- a strange thing ×1
- strangers, ×1
Bible verses with G3581 (xénos)
Xénos appears in 14 verses.
- Matthew 25:35
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:
- Matthew 25:38
When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
- Matthew 25:43
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.
- Matthew 25:44
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?
- Matthew 27:7
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
- Acts 17:18
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.
- Acts 17:21
(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.)
- Romans 16:23
Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
- Ephesians 2:12
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:
- Ephesians 2:19
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
- Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Hebrews 13:9
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
- 1 Peter 4:12
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
- 3 John 1:5
Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;