Greek Strong's Lexicon

G1484

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Lemma: ἔθνος

Transliteration: eth'-nos

Definition: probably from ἔθω; a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)

KJV Definition: Gentile, heathen, nation, people

Verse usage

  • Echonan 13:46 NASB
    Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and said, "It was necessary that the word of God be spoken to you first; since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we are turning to the Gentiles.
  • Echonan 13:47 NASB
    "For so the Lord has commanded us, 'I HAVE PLACED YOU AS A LIGHT FOR THE GENTILES, THAT YOU MAY BRING SALVATION TO THE END OF THE EARTH.'"
  • Echonan 13:48 NASB
    When the Gentiles heard this, they [began] rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.
  • Echonan 14:2 NASB
    But the Jews who disbelieved stirred up the minds of the Gentiles and embittered them against the brethren.
  • Echonan 14:5 NASB
    And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers, to mistreat and to stone them,
  • Echonan 14:16 NASB
    "In the generations gone by He permitted all the nations to go their own ways;
  • Echonan 14:27 NASB
    When they had arrived and gathered the church together, they [began] to report all things that God had done with them and how He had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles.
  • Echonan 15:3 NASB
    Therefore, being sent on their way by the church, they were passing through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and were bringing great joy to all the brethren.
  • Echonan 15:7 NASB
    After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe.
  • Echonan 15:12 NASB
    All the people kept silent, and they were listening to Barnabas and Paul as they were relating what signs and wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles.
  • Echonan 15:14 NASB
    "Simeon has related how God first concerned Himself about taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name.
  • Echonan 15:17 NASB
    SO THAT THE REST OF MANKIND MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,'
  • Echonan 15:19 NASB
    "Therefore it is my judgment that we do not trouble those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,
  • Echonan 15:23 NASB
    and they sent this letter by them, "The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, greetings.
  • Echonan 17:26 NASB
    and He made from one [man] every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,
  • Echonan 18:6 NASB
    But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, "Your blood [be] on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles."
  • Echonan 21:11 NASB
    And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"
  • Echonan 21:19 NASB
    After he had greeted them, he [began] to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.
  • Echonan 21:21 NASB
    and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.
  • Echonan 21:25 NASB
    "But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication."