ξένος

ξένος, -η, -ον

[in LXX chiefly for נׇכְרִי ;]

(a) foreign, alien: δαιμόνια, ApG 17,18 διδαχαί Hebr 13,9

(b) with genitive of thing(s), strange to, estranged from, ignorant of: Ef 2,12

(with) strange, unusual: 1 Pet 4,12,

As subst., ὁ ξ.,

(a) a foreigner, stranger: Matt 25,35, 38; 25,43-44; 27,7, ApG 17,21, 3 Joh 5; ξέίνοι κ. τάροικοι (opposite to συμπολῖται, οίκεῖοι), Ef 2,19 ξ. καὶ παρεπίδημοι, Hebr 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,†