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Koine Greek wordlink #112914

SR GNT Rom 16:23 ξένος (xenos) ‘you_all Gaios the host of me and all’ Strongs=35810 Lemma=xenos
Word role=adjective case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=60 AD

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Only use of identical word form ξένος (A-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ξένος’ (A-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘host’.

Rom 16:23 ‘you_all Gaios the host of me and all’ SR GNT Rom 16:23 word 5

OET-LV: 23 Is _greeting you _all Gaios, the host of _me, and all of _the assembly. Is _greeting you _all Erastos, the manager of _the city, and Kouartos the brother. (ROM_16:23)

OET-RV: 23 Gaios who hosts me and all of the assembly here, greets you all. (ROM 16:23)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘xenos’ have 7 different glosses: ‘a stranger’, ‘for strangers’, ‘of a stranger’, ‘of strange’, ‘host’, ‘strange’, ‘strangers’.

Key: A=adjective NMS=nominative,masculine,singular