ἀλλότριος

allotrios · of others, stranger

Greek word · Strong’s number G245 · appears 14 times in the Bible

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What it means

allotrios (ἀλλότριος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “of others, stranger”.

Belonging to others, foreign, strange.

How to say it

al·lo·tri·os

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. What is someone else's.
  2. From another people or family.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • another’s ×3
  • others ×3
  • strangers ×3
  • foreign land ×1
  • foreigners ×1
  • own ×1
  • stranger ×1
  • what belongs to another ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Matthew 17:25

    He says, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke first to him, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth take tolls or tribute? From their sons or from strangers?”

  • Matthew 17:26

    And when he said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then indeed the sons are free.

  • Luke 16:12

    And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is your own?

  • John 10:5

    But a stranger they will never follow; instead they will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”

  • Acts 7:6

    And God spoke thus: that his offspring would be foreigners in a land belonging to others, and they would enslave them and mistreat them four hundred years.

  • Romans 14:4

    Who are you who judge another’s household servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will be made to stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

  • Romans 15:20

    and so, making it my ambition to announce the good news not where the Messiah was already named, so that I would not build on another’s foundation,

  • 2 Corinthians 10:15

    not boasting beyond measure in others’ labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we may be enlarged among you according to our rule to an abundance,

  • 2 Corinthians 10:16

    so as to proclaim the good news in the regions beyond you, not to boast in another’s rule of things already prepared.

  • 1 Timothy 5:22

    Lay hands on no one hastily, nor share in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

  • Hebrews 9:25

    nor did he enter to offer himself many times, as the high priest enters into the Holy Place every year with blood not his own,

  • Hebrews 11:9

    By faith he lived as a resident alien in the land of the promise as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the fellow heirs of the same promise;

  • Hebrews 11:34

    quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

And 1 more times.