Definition

fond of guests, i.e. hospitable

Etymology

from G5384 (φίλος) and G3581 (ξένος);

Word family

• φίλος phílos
• ξένος xénos

How the KJV renders it

• given to (lover of
• use) hospitality

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.