Strong's Concordance ethnos: a race, a nation, pl. the nations (as distinct from Isr.) Original Word: ἔθνος, ους, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: ethnos Phonetic Spelling: (eth'-nos) Short Definition: a race, people, the Gentiles Definition: a race, people, nation; the nations, heathen world, Gentiles. HELPS Word-studies 1484 éthnos (from ethō, "forming a custom, culture") – properly, people joined by practicing similar customs or common culture; nation(s), usually referring to unbelieving Gentiles (non-Jews). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1484: ἔθνοςἔθνος, ἔθνους, τό: 1. a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living together; a company, troop, swarm: ἔθνος ἑταίρων, ἔθνος Ἀχαιων, ἔθνος λαῶν, Homer, Iliad; ἔθνος μελισσαων, 2, 87; μυιαων ἐθνεα, ibid. 469. 2. "a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus (τό ἔθνος τό θῆλυ ἤ ἀρρεν, Xenophon, oec. 7, 26): πᾶν ἔθνος ἀνθρώπων, the human race, Acts 17:26 (but this seems to belong under the next entry). 3. race, nation: Matthew 21:43; Acts 10:35, etc.; ἔθνος ἐπί ἔθνος, Matthew 24:7; Mark 13:8: οἱ ἄρχοντες, οἱ βασιλεῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν, Matthew 20:25; Luke 22:25; used (in the singular) of the Jewish people, Luke 7:5; Luke 23:2; John 11:48, 50-53; John 18:35; Acts 10:22; Acts 24:2 ( 4. (τά ἔθνη, like הַגויִם in the O. T., foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles, (cf. Trench, § xcviii.): Matthew 4:15 (Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν), 5. Paul uses τά ἔθνη even of Gentile Christians: Romans 11:13; Romans 15:27; Romans 16:4; Galatians 2:12 (opposite Galatians 2:13 to οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, i. e. Jewish Christians), Galatians 2:14; Ephesians 3:1, cf. Ephesians 4:17 (Winers Grammar, § 59, 4 a.; Buttmann, 130 (114)). Probably from etho; a race (as of the same habit), i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan) -- Gentile, heathen, nation, people. see GREEK etho Englishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 1484163 Occurrences ἔθνη — 53 Occ. ἔθνει — 7 Occ. ἔθνεσιν — 32 Occ. ἐθνῶν — 46 Occ. ἔθνος — 18 Occ. ἔθνους — 7 Occ. Matthew 4:15 N-GNP GRK: Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν NAS: THE JORDAN, GALILEE OF THE GENTILES-- KJV: Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; INT: Galilee of the Gentiles Matthew 6:32 N-NNP Matthew 10:5 N-GNP Matthew 10:18 N-DNP Matthew 12:18 N-DNP Matthew 12:21 N-NNP Matthew 20:19 N-DNP Matthew 20:25 N-GNP Matthew 21:43 N-DNS Matthew 24:7 N-NNS Matthew 24:7 N-ANS Matthew 24:9 N-GNP Matthew 24:14 N-DNP Matthew 25:32 N-NNP Matthew 28:19 N-ANP Mark 10:33 N-DNP Mark 10:42 N-GNP Mark 11:17 N-DNP Mark 13:8 N-NNS Mark 13:8 N-ANS Mark 13:10 N-ANP Luke 2:32 N-GNP Luke 7:5 N-ANS Luke 12:30 N-NNP Luke 18:32 N-DNP |
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