Quick Definition
ἀλλόφυλος, ον Adj foreign
Strong's Definition
from 243 and 5443; foreign, i.e. (specially) Gentile
KJV Usage: one of another nation
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
adjc. | -ον | ἀλλάσσω + φύω
11.43 · Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes · Socio-Religious
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)
1 ACT 10:28 Though ἀλλόφυλος in its more general meaning belongs to a class of socio-political terms, its specific usage in the NT justifies the classification of its meaning as socio-religious.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἀλλόφυλος, -ov, (ἄλλος, and φῦλον race), foreign, (in prof. auth. fr. [Aeschyl.,] Thue. down); when used in Hellenistic Grk. in opp. to a Jew, it signifies a Gentile, [A. V. one of another nation]: Acts x. 28. (Philo, Joseph.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀλλόφυλος allophylos 1x
of another race or nation, i.e., not a Jew, a foreigner, Acts 10:28*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀλλόφυλος, -ον
(ἄλλος, φῦλον, a tribe), [in LXX chiefly for פְּלֶשֶׁת;]
foreign, of another race (MM, VGT, s.v.); as opp. to a Jew, a Gentile: Ac 10:28.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀλλόφυλος. For this classical word (Ac 1078) cf. BGU I. 3qii- 8 11, zb. 11. 411? (A.D. 314) Αὐρηλίῳ ᾿Ατρῇ ἀλλοφύλου γεοργῷ χαίρε[ι]ν, 2. 4197 (A.D. 276--7) Α[ὐρ]ήλιος . . . ἀλλόφυλος ἀπὸ κώμης Φ[ι]λαδελφίας, and 26. IIT. 8ς82 δ (a.p. 294). Preisighe 3441 (from Elephantine) τὸ προσκύνημα τ(ῶ)ν ἀλλοφύλ(ω)ν. See also the citation from Josephus (5.2. ἀλλογενής).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀλλόφυλος (allophulos) — foreign. ἀλλό-φῡλος, ον, (φυλή) of another tribe, foreign, [LXX+5th c.BC+]; in Egypt, settled in another nome, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]; ἐς ἀλλόφυλον.. χθόνα[Refs 5th c.BC+]alien to man, wild, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; πόλεμος ἀ. war with foreigners, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; opposed to ὁμόφυλος, [Refs 4th c.BC+]alien, not one's own, [Refs 5th c.BC+]