Lexicon
ἀλλόφυλος
allophulos
G0246
G:A Greek

foreign

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Allophulos identifies the person whom the speaker says a Jewish man was not to approach or associate with.

The sole attested use identifies a person treated as an outsider in a statement about a Jewish man being joined to or coming near such a person.

Senses in use

  1. An outsider in a boundary-setting statement · dominant

    In Acts 10:28, the dative singular masculine form occurs after the statement that it was unlawful for a Jewish man to be joined to or come near such a person. The APB renders the clause “to come near to a foreign one,” while the verse goes on to reject calling any human common or unclean.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Acts 10:28, the APB presents the person as “a foreign one” in the clause about joining or coming near.

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