This adjective describes someone from a different race or nation, an outsider to one's own ethnic community. In Luke 17:18, Jesus notes that only one leper who returned to thank him was 'this foreigner,' a Samaritan. The term emphasizes ethnic and national otherness. Classical Greek and the Septuagint used it for non-Israelites. The multilingual glosses (Spanish 'extranjero', French 'étranger') uniformly indicate ethnic outsider status, making Jesus' observation about the Samaritan's faithfulness particularly striking against Jewish prejudice.