- Transliteration: Xenos

- Phonetic: xen'-os

- Definition:

1. a foreigner, a stranger

a. alien (from a person or a thing)

b. without the knowledge of, without a share in

c. new, unheard of

2. one who receives and entertains another hospitably

a. with whom he stays or lodges, a host

- Origin: apparently a primary word

- TDNT entry: 05:01,7

- Part(s) of speech: Adjective

- Strong's: Apparently a primary word; foreign (literally alien or figuratively novel); by implication a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer: - host strange (-r).