ξένος, -η, -ον,
[in LXX chiefly for נׇכְרִי;]
(a) foreign, alien: δαιμόνια, Ac 17:18; διδαχαί, He 13:9;
(b) c. gen. rei, strange to, estranged from, ignorant of: Eph 2:12;
(c) strange, unusual: I Pe 4:12.
As subst., ὁ ξ.,
(a) a foreigner, stranger: Mt 25:35, 38, 43, 4427:7, Ac 17:21, III Jo 5; ξένοι κ. τάροικοι (opp. to συμπολῖται, οίκεῖοι), Eph 2:19; ξ. καὶ παρεπίδημοι, He 11:13;
(b) one of the parties bound by ties of hospitality;
α the guest;
β the host (= ξενοδόκος, Hom., Il., xv, 532): Ro 16:23.†