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)