Xenia denotes accommodation provided or prepared for someone’s stay in the two attested verses.

The two occurrences show accommodation as a place where people gather and as quarters prepared for an anticipated visitor.

1. Accommodation for gathering or an expected stay · dominant

   Both occurrences use the accusative singular feminine form in contexts of receiving people: in Acts 28:23 the APB renders many coming to him “at his lodging,” while in Philemon 1:22 it renders a request to “prepare lodging for me.”

   Acts 28:23Philemon 1:22

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the form with “lodging” in both Acts 28:23 and Philemon 1:22. This rendering is read alongside the clauses rather than treated as a precise lexical equivalence.