xenos · stranger

What it means

xenos (ξένος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “stranger”.

Foreigner.

How to say it

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. Someone from another land or foreign to the place; or something unknown.
2. One who welcomes others into their home.

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

How it is translated

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

• stranger ×4
• strangers ×4
• foreigners ×2
• strange ×2
• foreign ×1
• host ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• Ephesians×2
• Hebrews×2
• 1 Peter×1
• 3 John×1

• Matthew 25:35

  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you welcomed me;

• Matthew 25:38

  And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger and you did not welcome me; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’

• Matthew 25:44

  Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not serve you?’

• Matthew 27:7

  And after taking counsel, they bought with them the Potter’s Field as a burial place for the foreigners.

• Acts 17:18

  And some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers were debating with him, and some were saying, “What would this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be a proclaimer of foreign deities,” because he was proclaiming the good news of Jesus and the resurrection.

• Acts 17:21

  Now all the Athenians and the foreigners residing there spent their time in nothing else than telling something or hearing something new.

• Romans 16:23

  Gaius, my host and the host of the whole assembly, greets you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you, and Quartus, the brother.

• Ephesians 2:12

  that you were at that time without the Messiah, alienated from the citizenship of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

• Ephesians 2:19

  So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

• Hebrews 11:13

  In faith all these died, not having received the promises, but having seen them from a distance and greeted them, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

• Hebrews 13:9

  Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, by which those who walked in them were not benefited.

• 1 Peter 4:12

  Beloved, do not be surprised at the fire among you, which comes upon you for a trial, as though something strange were happening to you,

• 3 John 1:5

  Beloved, you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers, and that for strangers,