2001 Translation

XENIOS, xenios

Sounds Like: KSEH-nee-os

Translations: hospitable, a hospitable, friendly, a friendly, relating to a guest, relating to a stranger

From the root: ΞΕΝΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone or something as hospitable, friendly, or pertaining to guests or strangers. It can be used to characterize a person who shows hospitality, or to describe customs, laws, or deities associated with the protection and treatment of guests and strangers. For example, Zeus was often referred to as 'Zeus Xenios' as the protector of guests.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3579 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:107

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 11 — 5:148

From the same root

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

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.

• ΞΕΝΙΟΙΣ — of hospitality, of a guest, of a stranger, of a foreigner, of a host, of a gift
• ΞΕΝΙΟΥ — of hospitality, of a guest, of a stranger, of a host, of a foreigner

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