ξένια, ξενιας, ἡ (ξένιος, ξένια, ξενιον, and this from ξένος), from Homer down, hospitality, hospitable reception; equivalent to a lodging-place, lodgings: Act_28:23 (equivalent to τό μίσθωμα in Act_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 Phm_1:1, the passage cited.)

χενία xenia 2x pr. state of being a guest; then, the reception of a guest or stranger, hospitality, in NT a lodging, Act_28:23 ; Phm_1:22

** ξενία , -ας , ἡ ( <ξένος ), [in LXX : Sir_29:27 Bl* ;] hospitality, enter\-tainment: Phm_1:22 ( cf. ICC , in l , but v. infr .). By meton ., a place of entertainment, a lodging-place: Act_28:23 , and so perh. Phm_1:22 ( Lft ., in l , Phi., p. 9; but v. supr ., and cf. MM , xvii).†

ξενία [page 433] The vernacular use of ξενία = hospitality (cf. Sir_29:27 ) in such passages as P Oxy VI. 931 .7 (ii/A.D.) τὴν οὐγκίαν τῆς πορφύρα [ς ] . . . δοθησόμενον ( l. δοθησομένην ) εἰς τὴν ξενίαν τῆι μεικρᾷ , the ounce of purple to be presented at the entertainment to the little one (Edd.), ib. VII. 1064 .10 (ii/A.D.) γράφω σοι . . ὅπως συνλάβῃς τῷ῎ Απει . . ξενίαν δὲ αὐτῷ ποιήσῃς , I write to you that you may assist Apis, and may show him hospitality (Ed.), ib. I. 118 verso .18 (late iii/A.D.) εἰδὼς δὲ ὁποία ἐστὶν καὶ ἡ ξενία , you know what hospitality requires (Edd.), and Syll 418 (= .3 888) .32 (A.D. 238) ἀπολιμπάνοντες ἐπέρχονται εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν κώμην καὶ ἀναγκάζουσιν ἡμᾶς ξενίας αὐτοῖς παρέχειν , along with the almost technical sense of τὰ ξένια for the gifts provided on the occasion of the visit of a King or other high official to a district (e.g. P Petr II. 10 (1) .13 (iii/B.C.) εἰς τὰ ξένια χῆνας ιβ̄ , P Tebt I. 33 .11 (B.C. 112) (= Selections , p. 31) : cf. P Grenf II. 14 ( b ) (B.C. 264 or 227) and see Ostr. i. p. 389 f.) seems to make it practically certain that the word is to be understood in the same sense in Act_28:23 , Phm_1:22 , rather than of a place of lodging. For this later sense cf. Preisigke 3924 .7 (A.D. 19) καὶ ἐπὶ σκηνώσεις καταλαμβάνεσθαι ξενίας πρὸς βίαν , ib. .17 ἐὰν γὰρ δέῃ , αὐτὸς Βαίβιος ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου καὶ δικαίου τὰς ξενίας διαδώσει , BGU II. 388 i. 15 (ii/iii A.D.) τὸ παιδίον τὸ παραφυλάσσον αὐτοῦ τ̣ὴ̣ν̣ ζενίαν ( l. ξενίαν ?) where however the reading is doubtful, and the dim. ξενίδιον in P Tebt II. 335 .17 (mid. iii/A.D.) ξενίδιον μεμ̣[ισθωμένον ] μοι εἰς οἴκησιν , a guesthouse rented to me as a dwelling : see also PSI I. 50 .16 (iv/v A.D.) καὶ προβῇ τὸ ἔργον τῆς μικρᾶς ξενίας τῆς περὶ τὴν ληνόν , where the editor understands ξενία as stanzetta, cella, and cites Hesych. κατάλυμα , καταγώγιον .

ξενία ξενία, ἡ, [Etym: ξένος] "the rights of a guest, hospitality, friendly entertainment or reception", Lat. hospitium, Od. , Hdt. , etc. "a friendly relation between" two foreigners, or between an individual and a foreign state (cf. πρόξενος), ξεινίην τινὶ συντίθεσθαι, Lat. hospitium facere cum aliquo, Hdt. ; κατὰ τὴν ξ. because of their "friendly relations", Thuc. ; πρὸς ξενίας τᾶς σᾶς by "thy friendship with" us, Soph. "the state or disabilities of an alien", ξενίας φεύγειν (sc. γραφήν) to be indicted "as an alien", Ar.

ξενία, -ας, ἡ (ξένος), [in LXX: Sir.29:27 Bl* ;] hospitality, enter­tainment: Phm 22 (cf. ICC, in l, but see infr.). By meton., a place of entertainment, a lodging-place: Act.28:23, and so perh. Phm 22 (Lft., in l, Phi., p. 9; but see supr., and cf. MM, xvii).† (AS)