ξένος xenos

Greek word for “foreign” · Strong’s G3581 · used 14 times in 14 verses

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Meaning

ξένος, -η, -ον; (a) foreign, alien: δαιμόνια;

How it is translated

Glosses given for xenos in context, with how often each is used:

• strangers 6
• stranger 4
• foreign 1
• host 1
• strange 1
• strange thing 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 25 (4), Acts 17 (2), Ephesians 2 (2), Matthew 27 (1), Romans 16 (1), Hebrews 11 (1), Hebrews 13 (1), 1 Peter 4 (1), 3 John 1 (1)

Forms

• ξένοι 4
• ξένος 3
• ξένον 2
• ξένοις 1
• ξένων 1
• ξέναις 1
• ξένου 1
• ξένους 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with xenos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• γυμνός gumnos “naked” 3
• συνάγω sunagō “to assemble” 3
• διψάω dipsaō “to thirst” 2
• πότε pote “when?” 2
• πεινάω peinaō “to hunger” 2
• περιβάλλω periballō “to clothe” 2
• ἀσθενής asthenēs “weak” 2
• φυλακή phulakē “prison/watch” 2
• ἀσπάζομαι aspazomai “to pay respects to” 2
• ἐπαγγελία epangelia “promise” 2
• ἤ ē “or” 3
• ἀγαπητός agapētos “beloved” 2

Key verses

The verses using xenos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 25:35 — For 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 25:43 — I 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 25:44 — Then 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…
• Acts 17:18 — Then 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…
• Acts 17:21 — (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
• Romans 16:23 — Gaius mine host, and of the whole church, saluteth you. Erastus the chamberlain of the city saluteth you, and Quartus a brother.
• Ephesians 2:12 — That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and…
• Ephesians 2:19 — Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
• Hebrews 11:13 — These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that…
• Hebrews 13:9 — Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not…
• 1 Peter 4:12 — Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• 3 John 1:5 — Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.