Lexicon Hellénistés: a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew) Original Word: Ἑλληνιστής, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Hellénistés Phonetic Spelling: (hel-lay-nis-tace') Short Definition: a Hellenist, Grecian Jew Definition: a Hellenist, Grecian Jew, a Greek-speaking Jew, that is one who can speak Greek only and not Hebrew (or Aramaic). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom Hellénizó (to Hellenize) Definitiona Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew) NASB TranslationHellenistic (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1675: ἙλληνιστήςἙλληνιστής, ἑλληνιστου, ὁ (from ἑλληνίζω to copy the manners and worship of the Greeks or to use the Greek language ( Winers Grammar, 94 (89f), cf. 28)), a Hellenist, i. e. one who imitates the manners and customs or the worship of the Greeks, and uses the Greek tongue; employed in the N. T. of Jews born in foreign lands and speaking Greek ( Grecian Jews): Acts 11:20 R ( WH; see in Ἕλλην, 2); Acts 9:29; the name adhered to them even after they had embraced Christianity, Acts 6:1, where it is opposed to οἱ Ἑβραῖοί, which see Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Hellenisten; Reuss in Herzog see p. 701ff; ( BB. DD., under the word ; Farrar, St. Paul, chapter vii.; Wetstein (1752) on Acts 6:1).
Strong's Grecian. From a derivative of Hellen; a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew -- Grecian. see GREEK Hellen |
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