Foreign
ξένοςStrong’s G3581xenos
Appears in 14 verses of the New Testament
In short
Xenos is the Greek word usually translated “strangers”, “stranger” and “foreign”. It appears in 14 verses of the New Testament.
“Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;”
Meaning
Usually translated “strangers”, “stranger” and “foreign”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- strangers 6
- a stranger 4
- of foreign 1
- host 1
- strange 1
- a strange thing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 5
- Acts 2
- Ephesians 2
- Hebrews 2
- Romans 1
- 1 Peter 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 25:35For 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 25:38When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?
- Matthew 25:43I 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 25:44Then 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 27:7And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.
- Acts 17:18Then 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.
Greek dictionary
ξένος xenos · foreign
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)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foreign” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOREIGN, adjective
for'an. [Latin foris, foras.]
- Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous.
- Produced in a distant country or jurisdiction; coming from another country; as foreign goods; goods of foreign manufacture; a foreign minister.
- Remote; not belonging; not connected; with to or from.
- Impertinent; not pertaining; not to the purpose.
All definitions
- Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance.
- Extraneous; adventitious; not native or natural.
- In law, a foreign attachment is an attachment of the goods of a foreigner within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of a debt due from the foreigner to a citizen; or an attachment of the money or goods of a debtor, in the hands of another person.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.