Lexicon ethnikos: national, foreign, i.e. spec. a Gentile Original Word: ἐθνικός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: ethnikos Phonetic Spelling: (eth-nee-kos') Short Definition: pagan, heathen, gentile; a Gentile, non-Jew Definition: pagan, heathen, gentile; subst: a Gentile, non-Jew. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 1482 ethnikós(from 1484/éthnos, "nation") – Gentile; heathen, usually referring to non-Israelites; a pagan, a "non-covenant person," standing outside God's covenant (salvation). See 1484 (ethnos). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom ethnosDefinitionnational, foreign, i.e. spec. a Gentile NASB TranslationGentile (1), Gentiles (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1482: ἐθνικόςἐθνικός, ἐθνικη, ἐθνικον (ethnos); 1. adapted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people, national: Polybius, Diodorus, others. 2. suited to the manners or language of foreigners, strange, foreign; so in the grammarians (cf. our 'gentile']. 3. in the N. T. savoring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish; substantively, ὁ ἐθνικός, the pagan, the Gentile: Matthew 18:17; plural, Matthew 5:47 G L T Tr WH; ; and 3 John 1:7 L T Tr WH.
Strong's a Gentile From ethnos; national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile -- heathen (man). see GREEK ethnos |
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