Alien

New Testament

Vine's Expository Dictionary of Biblical Words

Definition

1allotriosG245

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.