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Alien

Alien primarily, "belonging to another" (the opposite to idios, "one's own"), came to mean "foreign, strange, not of one's own family, alien, an enemy;" "aliens" in Heb 11:34, elsewhere "strange," etc. See MAN...

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Alien <1,,245, allotrios>

primarily, "belonging to another" (the opposite to idios, "one's own"), came to mean "foreign, strange, not of one's own family, alien, an enemy;" "aliens" in Heb 11:34, elsewhere "strange," etc. See MAN'S, Note (1), STRANGE, STRANGER.

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