ἀλλότριος
allótrios · G245 · Greek · 14 occurrences
Meanings
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belonging to another, belonging to someone else
A reference to what belongs to someone else
ExamplesLuke 16:12 “And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?
Acts 7:6 “But God spoke to this effect, that his DESCENDANTS WOULD BE STRANGERS IN A LAND THAT WAS NOT THEIRS, AND THEY WOULD ENSLAVE AND MISTREAT THEM FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS.
Romans 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
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stranger, foreigner
A person from another geographical or cultural region and/or one not known to members of the socio-political group in question
ExamplesMatthew 17:25 He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”
Matthew 17:26 When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.
John 10:5 “However, a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
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to be strongly opposed to, to be an enemy of
Pertaining to being opposed as a result of one’s being essentially different
ExamplesHebrews 11:34 quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀκολουθέωto follow, to come behind, to go behind 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἀπόfrom 3
- ἐνin 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- παρεμβολήbarracks, camp 1
- φωνήvoice, sound 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 4 words
- זוּר zûwr · H2114 · stranger, outsider, strange
- Greek ἀλλότριος and Hebrew זוּר both denote 'belonging to another' or 'foreign/strange' with overlapping semantic ranges across property ownership, ethnic foreignness, and relational alienation; the Greek term extends more explicitly to hostile otherness while the Hebrew root emphasizes the stranger/outsider status, but both function as direct translation equivalents in LXX contexts describing what is not one's own or what is foreign.
- נׇכְרִי nokrîy · H5237 · foreign, strange, wild
- Both terms denote what belongs to another or is foreign/alien, with נׇכְרִי (nokrîy, H5237) focusing on ethnic/national foreignness in the Hebrew Bible while ἀλλότριος (allótrios, G245) extends to legal/property otherness ('another's property') and relational alienation in Greek contexts.
- נֵכָר nêkâr · H5236 · foreign, foreigner
- Hebrew נֵכָר and Greek ἀλλότριος both denote the concept of foreignness or belonging to another — 'alien, strange' and 'another's, foreign, not one's own' respectively — and the Septuagint regularly renders נֵכָר with ἀλλότριος to express this sense of alienness or otherness.
- אַחֵר ʼachêr · H312 · other, another, different
- Greek ἀλλότριος and Hebrew אַחֵר both denote 'belonging to another, foreign, strange' with overlapping semantic ranges in contexts of ownership, foreignness, and otherness, making them genuine cross-linguistic translation equivalents across Hebrew Bible and Septuagint usage.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Stranger, foreigner11.74
- In Matthew 17:25, Jesus asks Peter, “from whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers (allotrīōn)?” contrasting a king's own family with those outside it.
- To be strongly opposed to, to be an enemy of39.12
- In Hebrews 11:34, the heroes of faith “became mighty in war, put foreign (allotrīōn) armies to flight,” where the word designates hostile, enemy forces in battle rather than merely people from elsewhere.
- Belonging to another, belonging to someone else92.20
- In Luke 16:12, Jesus asks, “if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another's (allotrīō), who will give you that which is your own?” where the word marks property as belonging to someone other than its current user.
Word family 20 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1. belonging to another (opposed to ἴδιος), not one's own: Heb 9:25; Rom 14:4; Rom 15:20;…
2. foreign, strange: γῆ, Acts 7:6; Heb 11:9; not of one's own family, alien, Mt 17:25f; an enemy, Heb 11:34 (Homer, Iliad 5, 214; Xenophon, an. 3, 5, 5).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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