xenias

Strong’sG3578

lodging, hospitality

stem xeni-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** 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).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3578 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidxen-ee'-ah

hospitality, i.e. (by implication) a place of entertainment

Fromfrom G3581;

King Jameslodging.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

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 διδώσεινRefshospitii 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

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

guest room1×lodging1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	xenias	xeniais
object accusative	xenian2×ξενίαν	xeniain
direct address vocative	xeniar	xeniair
of, belonging to genitive	xeniau	xeniaiu
to, for dative	xenia	xeniai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

xenistem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

xenia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

xenian“lodging”objectaccusative singular2×

Acts 28:23“lodging”… hēmeran hēkale pros auton eis tan xenian polloterois, hoi ektithote diamarturorōntos tan basileian …… set a day to meet with Paul, and many people came to the place he was staying. He expounded to them from morning to evening, testifying about the kingdom of God …

Philemon 1:22hama de kai hetoimazasōr mi xenian, elpizamō gar hoti dia taiu proseuchaiu …In the meantime, prepare a guest room for me, because I hope that …