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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: ἀλλότριος

(Strong's #245 — Adjective — allotrios — al-lot'-ree-os )

primarily, "belonging to another" (the opposite to idios, "one's own"), came to mean "foreign, strange, not of one's own family, alien, an enemy;" "aliens" in Hebrews 11:34 , elsewhere "strange," etc. See MAN'S , Note (1), STRANGE , STRANGER.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Alien'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​a/alien.html. 1940.
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