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Strong's #246 - ἀλλόφυλος
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ἀλλό-φῡλος, ον, (φυλή)
of another tribe, foreign, Hp. Aër. 12; freq. in LXX of Philistines, Jd. 14.1, al.; in Egypt, settled in another nome, BGU 419.2 (iii A. D.); ἐς ἀλλόφυλον.. χθόνα A. Eu. 851; ἄνθρωποι Th. 1.102, Pl. Lg. 629d; ζῷα alien to man, wild, D.S. 3.18, Porph. Abst. 1.10; πόλεμος ἀ. war with foreigners, Plu. Cam. 23; opp. ὁμόφυλος, Epicur. Sent. 39; ἀ. πρός τι Dam. Pr. 308; μᾶζαν ἐπ' ἀ. alien, not one's own, Eup. 159.12.
ἀλλόφυλος, (ἄλλος, and φῦλον race), foreign, (in secular authors from (Aeschylus) Thucydides down); when used in Hellenistic Greek in opposed to a Jew, it signifies a Gentile, (A. V. one of another nation): Acts 10:28. (Philo, Josephus.)
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ἀλλόφυλος , -ον
(ἄλλος , φῦλον , a tribe),
[in LXX chiefly for H6429;]
foreign, of another race (MM, VGT, s.v.); as opp. to a Jew, a Gentile: Acts 10:28.†
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For this classical word (Acts 10:28) cf. BGU I. 34ii. 8, 11, ib. II. 4112 (A.D. 314) Αὐρηλίῳ Ἀτρῇ ἀλλοφύλου γεοργῷ χαίρε [ι ]ν , ib. 4192 (A.D. 276–7) Ἀ [ὐρ ]ήλιος . . . ἀλλόφυλος ἀπὸ κώμης Φ [ι ]λαδελφίας , and ib. III. 8582, 5 (A.D. 294). Preisigke 3441 (from Elephantine) τὸ προσκύνημα τ (ῶ )ν ἀλλοφύλ (ω )ν . See also the citation from Josephus (s.v. ἀλλογενής ).
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