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Name of God’s Son

ΞΕΝΩ, ξενω

XENŌ, xenō

Sounds Like: kseh-NOH

Translations: to entertain, to lodge, to be a guest, to be a stranger, to be estranged, to be alienated, to be foreign; (to) a stranger, (to) a foreigner, (to) a guest, (to) a host

From the root: ΞΕΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun, Verb

Explanation: This word can function as a verb or a noun. As a verb (from ξενόω), it means 'to entertain' or 'to lodge' someone, or 'to be a guest' or 'to be a stranger'. It can also mean 'to be estranged' or 'to be alienated' from something. As a noun, it is the dative singular form of the word 'ξένος', meaning 'stranger', 'foreigner', 'guest', or 'host'. In this noun form, it indicates the indirect object, meaning 'to a stranger' or 'to a guest'.

Inflection: Dative, Singular, Masculine or Feminine (as a noun); First Person, Singular, Present, Indicative, Active (as a verb); or First Person, Singular, Present, Subjunctive, Active (as a verb)

Strong’s numbers: G3581 (Lookup on BibleHub), G3579 (Lookup on BibleHub)


Instances

Clement of Alexandria
  • Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 9:4
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

From the same root

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

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.

  • ΞΕΝ — foreign, strange, a foreigner, a stranger, an alien, a guest, a host
  • ΞΕΝΑ — foreign, strange, unusual, a foreigner, a stranger, a strange thing, a strange woman, a strange land
  • ΞΕΝΑΙ — foreign, strange, unfamiliar, alien, a foreigner, a stranger
  • ΞΕΝΑΙΣ — (to) foreign, (to) strange, (to) alien, (to) unfamiliar
  • ΞΕΝΑΣ — foreign, strange, alien, unfamiliar, a foreigner, a stranger
  • ΞΕΝΗ — foreign, strange, alien, a foreigner, a stranger, a guest, a host, foreign land, abroad
  • ΞΕΝΗΝ — foreign, strange, an alien, a stranger, a guest, a host, an unknown
  • ΞΕΝΗΣ — (of) a stranger, (of) a foreigner, (of) a host, (of) a guest, (of) a strange land, (of) a foreign land
  • ΞΕΝΙΚΟΝ — foreign, strange, alien, a foreign contingent, a foreign army, a foreign multitude
  • ΞΕΝΙΚΩΝ — of foreign, of strange, of alien, of unusual, of hostile
  • ΞΕΝΙΟΝ — guest-gift, present, gift of hospitality, a guest-gift, a present, a gift of hospitality
  • ΞΕΝΟΙ — strangers, foreigners, guests, aliens, strange, unfamiliar
  • ΞΕΝΟΙΣ — (to) strangers, (to) foreigners, (to) guests, (to) aliens
  • ΞΕΝΟΝ — strange, foreign, a stranger, a foreigner, an alien, unusual
  • ΞΕΝΟΣ — stranger, a stranger, foreigner, a foreigner, guest, a guest, host, a host, alien, an alien
  • ΞΕΝΟΥ — of a stranger, of a guest, of a foreigner, of an alien, of a host
  • ΞΕΝΟΥΣ — strangers, foreigners, guests, hosts
  • ΞΕΝΩΝ — of strangers, of foreigners, of guests, of hosts, of aliens, of Gentiles
  • ΤΟΥΣΞΕΝΟΥΣ — the strangers, the foreigners, the guests, the aliens, the strange ones

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