Word Summary
allophylos: of another race
Original Word: ἀλλόφυλοςTransliteration: 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: ἀλλόφυλοςἀλλόφυλος, (
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.)