ἀλλογενής
foreigner
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G241 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek adjective αλλογενης centers on the idea of “foreigner.” It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. Luke dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. Its lone occurrence is Luke 17:18. Sharing its root, it stands alongside αλλος, αλλα and αλλασσω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G241 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Luke 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Gospels 1 verse · 100%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Stranger 1×
- American Standard Version: Stranger 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Foreigner 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Foreigner 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G241 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sprung from another tribe, a foreigner, alien
Word origin
Derived from αλλος (állos) (G243) — another.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G241, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- αλλα allá G235 but
- αλλασσω allássō G236 to change
- αλλαχοθεν allachóthen G237 from another place
- αλληγορεω allēgoréō G238 to speak allegorically
- αλληλων allḗlōn G240 one another
- αλλοτριος allótrios G245 foreign
- αλλοφυλος allóphylos G246 foreign
- αλλως állōs G247 otherwise
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αλλογενης appears 30 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 29 verses in 13 books.
- 30
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 29
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 13 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 13 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 17:27 ἀλλογενής
- Exodus 12:43 ἀλλογενής
- Leviticus 22:10 ἀλλογενής
- Numbers 1:51 ἀλλογενής
- Job 15:19 ἀλλογενής
- Isaiah 56:3 ἀλλογενής
- Jeremiah 28:51 ἀλλογενής
- Ezekiel 44:7 ἀλλογενής
- Daniel 1:10 ἀλλογενής
- Joel 4:17 ἀλλογενής
- Obadiah 1:11 ἀλλογενής
- Zechariah 9:6 ἀλλογενής
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G241) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 17:27 ἀλλογενής All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
- Exodus 12:43 ἀλλογενής Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
- Exodus 29:33 ἀλλογενής They shall eat those things with which atonement was made, to consecrate and sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat of it, because they are holy.
- Exodus 30:33 ἀλλογενής Whoever compounds any like it, or whoever puts any of it on a stranger, he shall be cut off from his people.'"
- Leviticus 22:10 ἀλλογενής "'No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 22:12 ἀλλογενής If a priest's daughter is married to an outsider, she shall not eat of the heave offering of the holy things.
- Leviticus 22:13 ἀλλογενής But if a priest's daughter is a widow, or divorced, and has no child, and has returned to her father's house, as in her youth, she may eat of her father's bread: but no stranger shall eat any of it.
- Leviticus 22:25 ἀλλογενής Neither from the hand of a foreigner shall you offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a blemish in them. They shall not be accepted for you.'"
- Numbers 1:51 ἀλλογενής When the tabernacle is to move, the Levites shall take it down; and when the tabernacle is to be set up, the Levites shall set it up. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- Numbers 3:10 ἀλλογενής You shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall keep their priesthood. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death."
- Numbers 3:38 ἀλλογενής Those who encamp before the tabernacle eastward, in front of the Tent of Meeting toward the sunrise, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel. The stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- Numbers 17:5 ἀλλογενής It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 18:4 ἀλλογενής They shall be joined to you, and keep the charge of the tent of meeting, for all the service of the Tent: and a stranger shall not come near to you.
- Numbers 18:7 ἀλλογενής You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
- Job 15:19 ἀλλογενής To whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
- Job 19:15 ἀλλογενής Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight.
- Isaiah 56:3 ἀλλογενής Neither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, Yahweh will surely separate me from his people; neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
- Isaiah 56:6 ἀλλογενής Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;
- Isaiah 60:10 ἀλλογενής Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
- Isaiah 61:5 ἀλλογενής Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.
- Jeremiah 28:51 ἀλλογενής
- Jeremiah 49:17 ἀλλογενής Edom shall become an astonishment: everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues of it.
- Ezekiel 44:7 ἀλλογενής in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 44:9 ἀλλογενής Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
- Daniel 1:10 ἀλλογενής The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
- Joel 4:17 ἀλλογενής
- Obadiah 1:11 ἀλλογενής In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
- Zechariah 9:6 ἀλλογενής Foriegners will dwell in Ashdod, And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- Malachi 3:19 ἀλλογενής
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G241) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
