ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΣ, φιλοξενος
PHILOXENOS, philoxenos
Sounds Like: fee-LOX-eh-nos
Translations: hospitable, loving strangers, a hospitable one
From the root: ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This is a compound word meaning 'loving strangers' or 'hospitable'. It describes someone who is kind and welcoming to guests or foreigners. It can be used to describe a person's character or actions, indicating a readiness to offer hospitality.
Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter, Singular or Plural, Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, or Vocative
Strong’s number: G5382 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 12:3
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΣ.
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.
- ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΙ — hospitable, loving strangers, hospitable ones
- ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΟΝ — hospitable, a hospitable one
- ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΩΤΑΤΗΝ — most hospitable, very hospitable, a most hospitable (one)
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