Quick Definition
φιλοξενία, ας, ἡ n.f. hospitality
Strong's Definition
from 5382; hospitableness
KJV Usage: entertain stranger, hospitality
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ας | φιλέω + ξενίζω
34.57 · Association · Show Hospitality
hospitality, receiving a stranger as a guest receiving and showing 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.’
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
φιλο-ξενία, -as, 4, (φιλόξενος, q. v-), love to strangers, hospitality: Ro. xii. 13; Heb. xiii. 2. (Plat.,- Polyb., al.)
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: Ro 12:13, He 13:2.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
φιλοξενία πρὸ δίκης καὶ φιλονικείας ἔδοξεν ἡμῖν KTA., an agreement to submit certain matters at dispute to arbitration, P Oxy I. 157! (vi/A.D.) ἐπιδὲ φιλονικία γέγονεν μεταξὺ ΤΠαπνουθίου τοῦ μονάζοντος καὶ τοῦ γραμματεὺς (= -réws)—with reference to a dispute between a monk and a scribe, and from the inserr. as Sy// 929 (=* 685)°° (B.C. 139) διὰ τὸ ὑπερβαλλόνTas αὐτοὺς τὴν πρὸς ἀλλήλους φιλονικίαν ἐνεστάσθαι. This last ex. shows the correct spelling of the word φιλονικία, derived from φίλος and νίκη, ‘‘ victory,” see Blass Gr. p. 8; cf. also AZzgn 1058 (B.C. 138). For the verb φιλονικέω cf. a fragment of Demosth. de Pace preserved in PSI 11. 129™ (iv/A.D.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
φιλοξενία (philoxenia) — hospitality. φῐλοξεν-ία, Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, hospitality, [NT+5th c.BC+]