ξένος, -η, -ον

[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)

foreign; alien; strange to; estranged from; ignorant of; strange; unusual; a foreigner; stranger; the guest; the host