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ἀλλότριος

allótrios · Greek · Strong's G245 · 14 occurrences

The KJV renders 8 different Hebrew and Greek words as “strange”

What it means

another's, i.e. not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile

from G243 (ἄλλος);

How the KJV renders it

alien, another man's, men's, strange

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

strange
also renders xenízō (G3579), héteros (G2087), xénos (G3581), parádoxos (G3861), éxō (G1854), ʼachêr (H312), ʻâmêq (H6012)
alien
also renders gêr (H1616), nêkâr (H5236), nokrîy (H5237)
men's
also renders anthrṓpinos (G442)

Answers that weigh this word

Where it appears

14 occurrences in the Greek text, first 13 verses shown.

1 Timothy 5:22 · A-DPF
Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
2 Corinthians 10:15 · A-DPM
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
2 Corinthians 10:16 · A-DSM
so as to preach the Good News even to the parts beyond you, not to boast in what someone else has already done.
Acts 7:6 · A-DSF
God spoke in this way: that his offspring would live as aliens in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.
Hebrews 9:25 · A-DSN
nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,
Hebrews 11:9 · A-ASF
By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
Hebrews 11:34 A-GPMJohn 10:5 A-DSMLuke 16:12 A-DSMMatthew 17:25 A-GPMMatthew 17:26 A-GPMRomans 14:4 A-ASMRomans 15:20 A-ASM

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