Word

ξενία

xenía · G3578 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. guestroom, lodging for guest, place to stay in

    A place of temporary lodging for a person away from home

    Examples

    Acts 28:23 When they had set a day for Paul, people came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

    Philemon 1:22 At the same time also prepare me a guest room, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

  2. hospitality

    Hospitality to a stranger, that is, someone who is not regarded as a member of the extended family or a close friend

    Examples

    Philemon 1:22 At the same time also prepare me a guest room, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

How it’s used In 2 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

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 2 entries
To show hospitality, to receive a stranger as a guest, hospitality34.57
Describing Paul's own lodging in Rome, Acts 28:23 states “When they had set a day for Paul, people came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening,” where “his lodging” renders this noun, here of the place where hospitality was received.
Guestroom, lodging for guest, place to stay in7.31
Asking Philemon for hospitality, Philemon 1:22 states “At the same time also prepare me a guest room, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you,” where “a guest room” renders this same noun, here in its concrete sense of the physical room prepared for a guest.
Word family 4 words
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ξενιας, ἡ (ξένιος, ξένια, ξενιον, and this from ξένος), from Homer down, hospitality,…
ξενιας, ἡ (ξένιος, ξένια, ξενιον, and this from ξένος), from Homer down, hospitality, hospitable reception; equivalent to a lodging-place, lodgings: Acts 28:23 (equivalent to τό μίσθωμα in Acts 28:30 (but this is doubtful; the more probable opinion receives the preference under the word ἴδιος, 1 a.)); Phm 1:22. (See especially Lightfoot on Philippians, p. 9, and on Philemon 1, the passage cited.)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 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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