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ἀλλόφυλος

allóphylos · G246 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. foreigner, Gentile, heathen, pagan

    A person not belonging to the ethnic group in question (from the specifically Jewish point of view, one who is not a Jew, but a Gentile)

    Examples

    Acts 10:28 And he said to them, “You yourselves know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; and yet God has shown me that I am not to call any person unholy or unclean.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Foreigner, Gentile, heathen, pagan11.43
In Acts 10:28, Peter tells Cornelius's household, “it is forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner (allophýlō),” naming someone outside the Jewish people, a Gentile.
Word family 20 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄλλος állos · G243 · different, differently, other than · 154×ἀλλά allá · G235 · but, instead, on the contrary · 638×ἀλλήλων allḗlōn · G240 · each other, one another · 100×ἀλλότριος allótrios · G245 · belonging to another, belonging to someone else, stranger · 14×ἀλλάσσω allássō · G236 · to change, to alter, to make different · 6×καταλλάσσω katallássō · G2644 · to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation · 6×καταλλαγή katallagḗ · G2643 · to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation · 4×ἀπαλλάσσω apallássō · G525 · to release, to set free, to settle with · 3×ἀπαλλοτριόω apallotrióō · G526 · to be a stranger, to be a foreigner · 3×ἀποκαταλλάσσω apokatallássō · G604 · to reconcile, to make things right with one another, reconciliation · 3×ἀλλαχόθεν allachóthen · G237 · from elsewhere, from some other way · 2×ἀντάλλαγμα antállagma · G465 · something given in exchange · 2×μεταλλάσσω metallássō · G3337 · to exchange, to substitute, to cease and to start · 2×ἀλληγορέω allēgoréō · G238 · to speak allegorically, to employ an analogy, to use a likeness · 1×ἀλλογενής allogenḗs · G241 · foreigner · 1×ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος allotriepískopos · G244 · busybody, meddler · 1×ἀλλόφυλοςallóphylos · G246ἄλλως állōs · G247 · different, differently, other than · 1×διαλλάσσω diallássō · G1259 · to be reconciled, to make peace with · 1×παραλλαγή parallagḗ · G3883 · change · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (ἄλλος, and φῦλον race), foreign, (in secular authors from (Aeschylus) Thucydides down);…
(ἄλλος, and φῦλον race), foreign, (in secular authors from (Aeschylus) Thucydides down); when used in Hellenistic Greek in opposed to a Jew, it signifies a Gentile, (A. V. one of another nation): Acts 10:28. (Philo, Josephus.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Socio-Religious1 occurrence

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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