Alienate
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
consists of apo, "from," and the above; it signifies "to be rendered an alien, to be alienated." In Ephesians 2:12 the RV corrects to the verbal from "alienated," for the noun "aliens;" elsewhere in Ephesians 4:18; Colossians 1:21; the condition of the unbeliever is presented in a threefold state of "alienation," (a) from the commonwealth of Israel, (b) from the life of God, (c) from God Himself. The word is used of Israelites in the Sept. of Ezekiel 14:5 ("estranged") and of the wicked in general, Psalm 58:3 .
King James Dictionary [2]
A'Lienate, L alieno.
1. To transfer title, property or right to another as, to alienate lands, or sovereignty. 2. To estrange to withdraw, as the affections to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted with from as, to alienate the heart or affections to alienate a man from the friends of his youth. 3. To apply to a wrong use.
They shall not alienate the first fruits of the land.
Ezekiel 48 .
A'LIENATE, a. L. alienatus.
Estranged withdrawn from stranger to with from.
O alienate from God, O spirit accurst.
The whigs were alienate from truth.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): (n.) A stranger; an alien.
(2): (a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; - with from.
(3): (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; - with from.
(4): (v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [4]
āl´yen - āt ( עבר , ‛ābhar ; ἀπαλλοτριόω , apallotrióō , "to estrange from"): In Old Testament, for the break between husband and wife caused by unfaithfulness to the marriage vow ( Jeremiah 6:8; Ezekiel 23:17 ); also applied to the diversion of property ( Ezekiel 48:14 ). In New Testament, spiritually, for the turning of the soul from God ( Ephesians 2:12; Colossians 1:21 ). The Greek allótrios , which is the root of the verb, is the opposite of ı́d - i - os , "one's own." The word implies a former state, whence the person or thing has departed, and that, generally, by deterioration.
