UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: Passage: RV ACT 10:28 · LV ACT 10:28 · Read together ACT 10:28
Though ἀλλόφυλος in its more general meaning belongs to a class of socio-political terms, its specific usage in the NT justifies the classification of its meaning as socio-religious.

Form 1

Part of speech: adjc.

Inflections: ἀλλόφυλος; -ον

Constructions: ἀλλόφυλος; ἀλλάσσω; φύω

Sense 1: foreigner, Gentile, heathen, pagan

Semantic entry: 11.43

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

Subdomains: Socio-Religious

Definition: a person not belonging to the ethnic group in question (from the specifically Jewish point of view, one who is not a Jew, but a Gentile)

ACT 10:28: RV ACT 10:28 · LV ACT 10:28 · Read together ACT 10:28

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OET-RV ACT 10:28

28 Then he told them, “You all know that us Yehudim (Jews) are forbidden by our laws to associate with or to enter the house of a non-Jew. However, God showed me that it’s not right to treat other people as being lesser or undesirable.

OET-LV ACT 10:28

28 And he _was _saying to them:
You _all are _knowing how unlawful it _is for_a_ Youdaiōns _man to _be _being _joined _together or to _be _approaching to_an_other _tribe.
The god to _and_ showed _me, to _be _calling not _one a_person common or unclean.

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἀλλόφυλος

Form 1

Sense 1: foreigner, Gentile, heathen, pagan