Quick Definition
ξενία, ας, ἡ n.f. lodging, hospitality
Strong's Definition
hospitality, i.e. (by implication) a place of entertainment
Derivation: from G3581 (ξένος);
KJV Usage: lodging
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | ξενίζω
7.31 · Constructions · Parts and Areas of Buildings
guestroom, lodging for guest, place to stay in a place of temporary lodging for a person away from home
34.57 · Association · Show Hospitality
hospitality hospitality to a stranger, that is, someone who is not regarded as a member of the extended family or a close friend To receive a stranger as a guest is sometimes expressed idiomatically as ‘to let a stranger sit at one’s table,’ ‘to offer a bed to a stranger,’ or ‘to let a stranger enter one’s house.’
For another interpretation of ξενία in PHM 1:22, see 7.31.
1 ACT 28:23 · PHM 1:22 It is also possible to interpret ξενία in both ACT 28:23 and PHM 1:22 as hospitality or the activity involved in receiving a guest (see 34.57). This is the more common meaning of ξενία, but it fits less well in the two contexts in which ξενία occurs in the NT.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
χενία xenia 2x
pr. state of being a guest; then, the reception of a guest or stranger, hospitality, in NT a lodging, Acts 28:23; Phlm. 22*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
** ξενία, -ας, ἡ
(< ξένος), [in LXX: Si 29:27 B1*;]
hospitality, entertainment: Phm 22 (cf. ICC, in l., but v. infr.). By meton., a place of entertainment, a lodging-place: Ac 28:23, and so perh. Phm 22 (Lft., in l., Phl., p. 9; but v. supr., and cf. MM, xvii).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ξενία. The vernacular use of ξενία = ““ hospitality ” (cf. Sir 2957) in such passages as P Oxy VI. 9317 (ii/A.D.) τὴν ovyklay τῆς Tophipals] . . - δοθησόμενον (/. δοθησομένην) εἰς τὴν ξενίαν thu μεικρᾷ, ‘the ounce of purple to be presented at the entertainment to the little one” (Edd.), 7. VII. 10647° (ii/A.D.) γράφω cor. . ὅπως συνλάβῃς τῷ "Ame . . ξενίαν δὲ αὐτῷ ποιήσῃς, “1 write to you that you may assist Apis, and may show him hospitality” (Ed.), 26. I. 118 verso?® (late iii/A.D.) εἰδὼς δὲ ὁποία ἐστὶν καὶ ἡ Eevia, “you know what hospitality requires”’ (Edd.), and Sy// 418 (= 8 888)* (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)} (iii/B.c.) εἰς τὰ ξένια χῆνας ιβ, P Tebt I. 3311 (B.c. 112) (= Selections, p- 31): cf. P Grenf II. 14 (4) (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 Ac 2853, Philem22, rather than of a A/ace of lodging. For this later sense cf. Prezsigke 39247 (A.D. 19) kal ἐπὶ σκηνώσεις καταλαμβάνεσθαι ξενίας πρὸς βίαν, 7/.17 ἐὰν yap δέῃ, αὐτὸς Βαίβιος ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου καὶ δικαίου τὰς ξενίας διαδώσει, BGU ILI. 3881. 15 (ii/iii A.D.) τὸ παιδίον τὸ παραφυλάσσον αὐτοῦ τὴν ἵενίαν (1. ξενίαν ?) where however the reading is doubtful, and the dim. ξενίδιον in P Tebt II. 335}? (mid. iii/A.D.) ξενίδιον μεμ[ισθωμένον] μοι εἰς οἴκησιν, “a guesthouse rented to me as a dwelling”: see also PSI I. κοἱδ (iv/y A.D.)Kal προβῇ τὸ ἔργον τῆς μικρᾶς ξενίας τῆς περὶ τὴν Anvov, where the editor understands ξενία as ‘*stanzetta,” *cella,” and cites Hesych. κατάλυμα, καταγώγιον.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ξενία (xenia) — lodging. ξεν-ία, ἡ, Epic dialect ξενίη [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect ξεινίη (variant{ξεινηΐη}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: (ξένος):— hospitality shown to a guest, entertainment, δώροισιν ἀμειψάμενος.. καὶ ξενίῃ ἀγαθῇ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; μείξεσθαι ξενίῃ ἠδ᾽ ἀγλαὰ δῶρα διδώσειν[Refs]hospitii causa, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ ξενίαν ἐλθεῖν to come as a guest, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: in plural, [NT+5th c.BC+]
2. friendly relation between two states, or between a person and a foreign state, ξεινίην τινὶ συντίθεσθαι, Latin hospitium facere cum aliquo, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κατὰ τὴν ξ. because of their friendly relations, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς ξ. τᾶς σᾶς by thy friendship with us, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξ. τινός with him, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. status of an alien, opposed to that of a citizen, γραφὴ ξενίας indictment of an alien for usurping civic rights, [Refs]; ξενίας φεύγειν (i.e. γραφήν) to be so indicted, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. guest-chamber, [Refs 4th c.AD+]; perhaps lodging, [NT]