ξένος

ξένος — xénos

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 אֹרֵחַ, a traveler, 2Sa 12:4, Alex. manuscript; for נֵר, Job 31:32; several times for נָכְרִי). (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).