foreign

Greek Adjective

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

Greek Adjective

ξένος, ὁ, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ξεῖνος (also frequently in [Refs 5th c.BC+], used by Trag. for the sake of meter even in trimeter, mostly in vocative, [Refs 5th c.BC+], Aeolic dialect ξέννος [Refs]; scanned ¯?~X and written ξεῖνος in [Refs 3rd c.BC+]. I) guest-friend, applied to persons and states bound by a treaty or tie of hospitality, [Refs 8th c.BC+] I.2) of parties giving or receiving hospitality, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; mostly of the guest, opposed to the host, ξεινοδόκοι καὶ ξεῖνος [Refs], etc; ἁ ξείνα the visitor, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of guests at a club, opposed to σύνδειπνοι, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: less frequently of the host, [NT+8th c.BC+] II) stranger, especially wanderer, refugee (under the protection of Ζεὺς ξένιος), sometimes coupled with ἱκέτης, Ζεὺς ἐπιτιμήτωρ ἱκετάων τε ξείνων τε ξείνιος [Refs 8th c.BC+] III) generally, stranger, foreigner, opposed to ἔνδημος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ἀστός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἐπιχώριος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; with ἔπηλυς, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; opposed to a member of the family, [Refs 6th c.AD+] III.b) as a term of address to any stranger, ὦ ξένε [Refs 5th c.BC+] III.2) ={βάρβαρος}, at Sparta, [Refs 5th c.BC+] IV) hireling, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; especially mercenary soldier, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: rarely simply, ally, [Refs 5th c.BC+] B) as adjective ξένος, η, ον (also ος, ον [Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect ξεῖνος, η, ον, foreign, not in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently in later writers, ξείνα γαῖα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν ξένῃσι χερσί by foreign hands, [Refs]; ξ. δόμοι, πόλις, etc, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of alien property, ξ. ἄρουραι [Refs 6th c.AD+] B.II) with genitive of things, strange to a thing, unacquainted with, ignorant of it, ξ. τοῦ λόγου [NT+5th c.BC+] adverb ξένως, ἔχω τῆς ἐνθάδε λέξεως I am a stranger to the mode of speech, [Refs 5th c.BC+] B.III) strange, unusual, λόγοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὡς ξένου συμβαίνοντος NT.1Pet.4.12 [NT]: superlative, πράξεων ὡς -οτάτων [Refs 1st c.BC+] adverb ξένως, λαλεῖν [Refs 1st c.BC+] B.III.2) τοῦ πνεύματος. ῥύσις ὡς -ωτάτη air as fresh as possible, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Adjective

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