Strong’s G245 · Greek

ἀλλότριος
allótrios

Definition

another's, i.e. not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile

Etymology

from G243 (ἄλλος);

Where the KJV renders it

  • alien
  • (an-)other (man's
  • men's)
  • strange(-r)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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