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Lexicon :: Strong's G1672 - hellēn

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Ἕλλην
Transliteration
hellēn (Key)
Pronunciation
hel'-lane
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TDNT Reference: 2:504,227

Strong’s Definitions

Ἕλλην Héllēn, hel'-lane; from G1671; a Hellen (Grecian) or inhabitant of Hellas; by extension a Greek-speaking person, especially a non-Jew:—Gentile, Greek.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's G1672 in the following manner: Greek (20x), Gentile (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's G1672 in the following manner: Greek (20x), Gentile (7x).
  1. a Greek either by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies

  2. in a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἕλλην Héllēn, hel'-lane; from G1671; a Hellen (Grecian) or inhabitant of Hellas; by extension a Greek-speaking person, especially a non-Jew:—Gentile, Greek.
STRONGS G1672:
Ἕλλην, -ηνος, ;
1. a Greek by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies: Acts 18:17 Rec.; Ἕλληνές τε καὶ βάρβαροι, Romans 1:14.
2. in a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; so that where Ἕλληνες are opposed to Jews, the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship: John 7:35 (cf. Meyer at the passage); Acts 11:20 G L T Tr [cf. B. D. American edition, p. 967]; Acts 16:1, 3; [Acts 21:28]; 1 Corinthians 1:22, 23 Rec.; Galatians 2:3 (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 11, 2); Ἰουδαῖοί τε καὶ Ἕλληνες, and the like: Acts 14:1; Acts 18:4; Acts 19:10, 17; Acts 20:21; Romans 1:16; Romans 2:9, 10; Romans 3:9; Romans 10:12; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11. The word is used in the same wide sense by the Greek church Fathers, cf. Otto on Tatian, p. 2; [Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word]. The Ἕλληνες spoken of in John 12:20 and Acts 17:4 are Jewish proselytes from the Gentiles; see προσήλυτος, 2. [Cf. B. D. under the word Greece etc. (especially American edition).]
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

John
7:35; 12:20
Acts
11:20; 14:1; 16:1; 16:3; 17:4; 18:4; 18:17; 19:10; 19:17; 20:21; 21:28
Romans
1:14; 1:16; 2:9; 2:10; 3:9; 10:12
1 Corinthians
1:22; 1:23; 1:24; 10:32; 12:13
Galatians
2:3; 3:28
Colossians
3:11

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1672 matches the Greek Ἕλλην (hellēn),
which occurs 6 times in 6 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - The Syrians on the east and the Philistines on the west
devour Israel with open mouth.
For all this his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is stretched out still.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 8:21 - And the goat[fn] is the king of Greece. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:20 - Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come.
Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:2 - “And now I will show you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:6 - You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:13 - For I have bent Judah as my bow;
I have made Ephraim its arrow.
I will stir up your sons, O Zion,
against your sons, O Greece,
and wield you like a warrior’s sword.
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