UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

Sense 1: belonging to another, belonging to someone else

Semantic entry: 92.20

Semantic domains: Discourse Referentials

Subdomains: Whom or What Spoken or Written About

Definition: a reference to what belongs to someone else

Sense 2: stranger, foreigner

Semantic entry: 11.74

Semantic domains: Groups and Classes of Persons and Members of Such Groups and Classes

Subdomains: Socio-Political

Definition: a person from another geographical or cultural region and/or one not known to members of the socio-political group in question

Notes: In RV JHN 10:5 · LV JHN 10:5 · Read together JHN 10:5 the most satisfactory rendering of ‘stranger’ is often ‘someone who is not known,’ in other words, ‘they will not follow someone whom they do not know’ or ‘… recognize.’

Sense 3: to be strongly opposed to, to be an enemy of

Semantic entry: 39.12

Semantic domains: Hostility, Strife

Subdomains: Opposition, Hostility

Definition: pertaining to being opposed as a result of one’s being essentially different

Notes: Meanings involving enmity, hostility, and opposition are frequently idiomatic in nature and are derived primarily from four major experiential sources: (1) psychological attitudes, ‘to have one’s heart burn against’; (2) gestures, ‘to frown against’ or ‘to refuse to snap fingers’ (snapping fingers being a particular form of greeting in various parts of Africa); (3) body stance, ‘to stand against’; and (4) movement, ‘to turn one’s back against’ or ‘to turn away from.’