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G5381 φιλονεξία (philonexía)
Greek
Noun, Feminine
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Quick Definition

hospitality

Strong's Definition

hospitableness

Derivation: from G5382 (φιλόξενος);

KJV Usage: entertain stranger, hospitality

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

φιλονεξια, φιλονεξιας, ἡ (φιλόξενος, which see), love to strangers, hospitality: Rom_12:13; Heb_13:2. (Plato, Polybius, others.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

φιλοξενία philoxenia 2x kindness to strangers, hospitality, Rom_12:13 ; Heb_13:2

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* φιλο -ξενία , -ας , ἡ ( < φιλόξενος ), love of strangers, hospitality: Rom_12:13 , Heb_13:2 .†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

φιλοξενία (~ φιλονεξία ) [page 671] love of strangers, hospitality (Rom. 12:13, Heb. 13:2) : cf. the curious P Lond 1917 .4 ( c. A.D. 330 340) where the writeraddresses his correspondent ταῦτα τὰ γ [ρά ]μματα ἡ [μῶν ἔγρα ]ψα ἐν τῷ χαρτίῳ τούτῳ ἴ̣ν α̣ὐ̣τὰ ἀνάγνοις μαιτὰ χαρᾶς . . . καὶ [[π ]] μαιτὰ φιλοξε [[ν ]]νίας μακροθυμίας πεπληρωμαίαν ( l. πεπληρωμένος ) πνεύμ̣[ατος ἁγίου , this our letter I wrote on this papyrus that you might read it with joy, and with entertainment of long-suffering filled with the Holy Ghost (Bell), and similarly l. .14. . We may also cite the inscr. on a statue to the rhetorician Herodes Atticus, Syll .3 859 A ( c. A.D. 150) ἡ πόλις η῾Δελφῶν φιλίας καὶ [θιλο ]ξενίας ἕνεκα

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

φιλο-ξενία, -ας, ἡ (φιλόξενος), love of strangers, hospitality: Rom.12:13, Heb.13:2.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (2)

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