2001 Translation

ALLOPHYLOS, allophylos

Sounds Like: AL-lo-foo-loss

Translations: foreign, a foreigner, alien, a Philistine, another race

From the root: ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective, Noun

Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'allos' (other) and 'phylon' (tribe or race). It refers to someone of another tribe, race, or nation, hence a foreigner or alien. In some contexts, particularly in the Septuagint, it specifically refers to a Philistine. It can be used as an adjective to describe something as foreign, or as a noun to refer to a foreigner.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0246 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 9 — 6:136
• Book 13 — 6:216
• Book 20 — 12:262

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:12, 1:16
• Book Two — 2:17
• Book Six — 1:7

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Samuel — 10:5, 17:8, 17:10, 17:36, 17:43, 17:44, 17:48

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΑ — foreigners, aliens, strangers, of another tribe, foreign things
• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΙΣ — (to) foreigners, (to) strangers, (to) aliens, (to) those of another race
• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΝ — foreign, alien, of another tribe, a foreigner, an alien
• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΥ — of a foreigner, of a stranger, of an alien, of another tribe, of another nation
• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΩ — of another tribe, of another nation, of foreigners, of aliens, of Philistines
• ἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΩΝ — of foreigners, of aliens, of other tribes, of other nations, of strange people
• ΤΟΙΣἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΙΣ — (to) the foreigners, (to) the aliens, (to) the strangers, (to) the people of another tribe
• ΤΟΥΣἈΛΛΟΦΥΛΟΥΣ — foreigners, a foreigner, aliens, an alien, those of another race, those of another tribe

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