STRONGS NUMBER G246


Word Summary
allophylos: of another race
Original Word: ἀλλόφυλος
Transliteration: allophylos
Phonetic Spelling: (al-lof'-oo-los)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: of another race
Meaning: of another race
Strong's Concordance
alien, foreign

From allos and phule; foreign, i.e. (specially) Gentile -- one of another nation.

see GREEK allos

see GREEK phule

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 246: ἀλλόφυλος

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.)