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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Aliens
Thompson Chain Reference
• Aliens
• Alienation
Dictionaries
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Alien
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Alien
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Alien (2)
• Alien
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Alien
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Stranger, Alien, Foreigner
• Alien
King James Dictionary
• Alienate
• Alien
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Alien Priories
• Alien Houses
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Alienate
• Alien
Webster Dictionary
• Alienism
• Aliene
• Alienator
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Alien
• Alien-Houses
• Alienation
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Alien
• Alienate
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Alien
• Alien Priories
• Alienation, of Church Property.
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Alienation and Acquisition
• Aliens
• Restraints On Alienation
Lexicons
• ܢܽܘܟ݂ܪܳܝܳܐ
• ἀλλότριος
• ἀπαλλοτριόω
• παρεπίδημος
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• בֵּן בְּנו, , לַבֵּן
• גוּרּ גוּרּ, , גוּרּ
• גֵּר
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(1):

(a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.

(2):

(n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

(3):

(v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

(4):

(n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.

(5):

(a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; - followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.