ἀπαλλοτριόω (G526) — Greek Lexicon

ἀπαλλοτριόω

apallotrióō

G526 verb

SILEX Entry

Definition

to cause someone or something to be estranged, set apart, or cut off from a group, relationship, or prior association; in passive and middle forms, to become estranged, alienated, or no longer sharing in a person's interests, aims, or sphere. Commonly used figuratively for exclusion from a community, relationship, or participation, especially in reference to social, religious, or moral alienation.

Semantic Range

to estrange, to alienate, to make or become foreign, be excluded from participation, be cut off from former relationship or association, cease to belong, be rendered an outsider

Root / Etymology

From ἀπό ('from, away') and a verbal derivative of ἀλλότριος ('belonging to another, foreign, strange'); thus, 'to make (someone) belong to another,' i.e., to estrange, to alienate.

Historical & Contextual Notes

First attested in post-classical (Hellenistic) Greek, occurring in Jewish-Greek and early Christian texts. In the Septuagint and New Testament, typically used to describe a process or state of estrangement—often moral, religious, or social in nature. In the New Testament (Colossians 1:21; Ephesians 2:12, 4:18), it characterizes a condition of being cut off from the commonwealth (e.g., Israelite community) or from God, but always in terms of alienation from a previous relationship or intended association. The English 'alienate' or 'be alien' can suggest legal, social, or emotional distancing, but the Greek more vividly refers to a transformation in status—one 'becomes other.' Standard English translations focus on 'alienate,' yet the underlying Greek expresses both an active process (to cause estrangement) and a resultant state (having become estranged). Closely associated with allotropic concepts (total transformation of category or belonging), and should not be confused with simple spatial or physical separation; rather, it references altered identity or relationship. The term has deeper nuances in moral and communal belonging within Hellenistic Jewish and early Christian usage than in secular Greek.

Original Strong's Gloss (1890)

from ἀπό and a derivative of ἀλλότριος; to estrange away, i.e. (passively and figuratively) to be non-participant:-- alienate, be alien.

Root Family

ἀπαλλοτριόω (apallotrioō) — to estrange, to make foreign, to cause to belong elsewhere, to alienate

Root ἀλλοτρι- to be other, to make foreign, to make belong elsewhere

Word Forms

2 distinct forms

SIDANCE	Surface	Transliteration	Morphology	Common	SIBI-P1	SIBI-P2	Occurrences
`G526-01`	ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι	apellotriomenoi	`V PRF PASS PTCP NOM M PL`	alienated	having been estranged	having been estranged	2
`G526-02`	ἀπηλλοτριωμένους	apellotriomenous	`V PRF PASS PTCP ACC M PL`	alienated	having been estranged	having been estranged	1

Occurrences in Scripture

3 occurrences

Filter by SIDANCE:

SIDANCE	Reference	Word	Transliteration	Morphology	Common	SIBI-P1	SIBI-P2
`G526-01`	Ephesians 2:12	ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι	apellotriomenoi	`V PRF PASS PTCP NOM M PL`	being alienated	having been estranged	having been estranged
`G526-01`	Ephesians 4:18	ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι	apellotriomenoi	`V PRF PASS PTCP NOM M PL`	alienated	having been estranged	having been estranged
`G526-02`	Colossians 1:21	ἀπηλλοτριωμένους	apellotriomenous	`V PRF PASS PTCP ACC M PL`	alienated	having been estranged	having been estranged

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