Lexicon xenodocheó: To show hospitality, to entertain strangers Original Word: ξενοδοχέω Strong's Exhaustive Concordance lodge strangers. From a compound of xenos and dechomai; to be hospitable -- lodge strangers. see GREEK xenos see GREEK dechomai NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom xenos and dechomai Definition to entertain strangers NASB Translation shown hospitality (1), shown hospitality to strangers (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3580: ξενοδοχέω[ξενοδοχέω (for the earlier form ξενοδοκέω in use from Herodotus down; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 307), ξενοδόχω: 1 aorist ἐξενοδόχησα; (ξενοδοχος, i. e. ξένους δεχόμενος); to receive and entertain hospitably, to be hospitable: 1 Timothy 5:10. (Dio Cass. 78, 3; (Graecus Venetus, Genesis 26:17; ecclesiastical writings).] |