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Lexicon :: Strong's G1484 - ethnos

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ἔθνος
Transliteration
ethnos (Key)
Pronunciation
eth'-nos
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Probably from ἔθω (G1486)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:364,201

Trench's Synonyms: xcviii. λαός, ἕθνος, δῆμος, ὄχλος.

Strong’s Definitions

ἔθνος éthnos, eth'-nos; probably from G1486; 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.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x

The KJV translates Strong's G1484 in the following manner: Gentiles (93x), nation (64x), heathen (5x), people (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 164x
The KJV translates Strong's G1484 in the following manner: Gentiles (93x), nation (64x), heathen (5x), people (2x).

  1. a multitude (whether of men or of beasts) associated or living together

    1. a company, troop, swarm

  2. a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus

    1. the human family

  3. a tribe, nation, people group

  4. in the OT, foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles

  5. Paul uses the term for Gentile Christians

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἔθνος éthnos, eth'-nos; probably from G1486; 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.
STRONGS G1484:
ἔθνος, -ους, 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 μελισσάων, 2, 87; μυιάων ἔθνεα, ibid. 469.
2. a multitude of individuals of the same nature or genus (τὸ ἔθνος τὸ θῆλυ ἢ τὸ ἄρρεν, 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 ἐπὶ 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 (Acts 24:3), Acts 24:10; Acts 26:4; 28:19.
4. (τά) ἔθνη, like הַגויִם in the O. T., foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles, [cf. Trench, § 98]: Matthew 4:15 (Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν), Matthew 6:32; [3 John 1:7 R G; cf. Revelation 15:3 G L T Tr WH marginal reading after John 10:7], and very often; in plain contradistinction to the Jews: Romans 3:29; Romans 9:24; [1 Corinthians 1:23 G L T Tr WH]: Galatians 2:8, etc.; ὁ λαὸς (τοῦ θεοῦ, Jews) καὶ τὰ ἔθνη, Luke 2:32; Acts 26:17, 23; Romans 15:10.
5. Paul uses τὰ 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)].
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
4:15; 6:32; 20:25; 21:43; 24:7
Mark
13:8
Luke
2:32; 7:5; 22:25; 23:2
John
10:7; 11; 11:48; 18:35
Acts
10:22; 10:35; 17:26; 24:2; 24:3; 24:10; 26:4; 26:17; 26:23; 28:19
Romans
3:29; 9:24; 11:13; 15:10; 15:27; 16:4
1 Corinthians
1:23
Galatians
2:8; 2:12; 2:13; 2:14
Ephesians
3:1; 4:17
3 John
1:7
Revelation
15:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1484 matches the Greek ἔθνος (ethnos),
which occurs 44 times in 44 verses in 'Act' in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:5 - Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, pious men, from every nation of those under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:25 - who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:27 - For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:7 - and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will *I* judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:45 - which also our fathers, receiving from their predecessors, brought in with Joshua when they entered into possession of the lands of the nations, whom God drove out from the face of our fathers, until the days of David;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:9 - But a certain man, by name Simon, had been before in the city, using magic arts, and astonishing the nation of Samaria, saying that himself was some great one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:15 - And the Lord said to him, Go, for this man is an elect vessel to me, to bear my name before both nations and kings and the sons of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:22 - And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearing God, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:35 - but in every nation he that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45 - And the faithful of the circumcision were astonished, as many as came with Peter, that upon the nations also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:1 - And the apostles and the brethren who were in Judaea heard that the nations also had received the word of God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:18 - And when they heard these things they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then indeed God has to the nations also granted repentance to life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:19 - And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:42 - And as they went out they begged that these words might be spoken to them the ensuing sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 - And Paul and Barnabas spoke boldly and said, It was necessary that the word of God should be first spoken to you; but, since ye thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the nations;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:47

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:47 - for thus has the Lord enjoined us: I have set thee for a light of the nations, that thou shouldest be for salvation to the end of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:48

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:48 - And those of the nations, hearing it, rejoiced, and glorified the word of the Lord, and believed, as many as were ordained to eternal life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:2 - But the Jews who did not believe stirred up the minds of those of the nations and made them evil-affected against the brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:5 - And when an assault was making, both of those of the nations and the Jews with their rulers, to use them ill and stone them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:16 - who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:27 - And having arrived, and having brought together the assembly, they related to them all that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:3 - They therefore, having been set on their way by the assembly, passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, relating the conversion of those of the nations. And they caused great joy to all the brethren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:7 - And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, *ye* know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:12 - And all the multitude kept silence and listened to Barnabas and Paul relating all the signs and wonders which God had wrought among the nations by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:14 - Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:17 - so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:19 - Wherefore *I* judge, not to trouble those who from the nations turn to God;

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:23 - having by their hand written thus: The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to the brethren who are from among the nations at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting:

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26 - and has made of one blood every nation of men to dwell upon the whole face of the earth, having determined ordained times and the boundaries of their dwelling,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:6 - But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: *I* am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:11 - and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:19 - And having saluted them, he related one by one the things which God had wrought among the nations by his ministry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:21 - And they have been informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews among the nations apostasy from Moses, saying that they should not circumcise their children, nor walk in the customs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - But concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, deciding that they should observe no such thing, only to keep themselves both from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:21 - And he said to me, Go, for *I* will send thee to the nations afar off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:2 - And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:10 - But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:17 - And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:4 - My manner of life then from my youth, which from its commencement was passed among my nation in Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:17 - taking thee out from among the people, and the nations, to whom *I* send thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:23 - namely, whether Christ should suffer; whether he first, through resurrection of the dead, should announce light both to the people and to the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:19 - But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation of.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:28 - Be it known to you therefore, that this salvation of God has been sent to the nations; *they* also will hear it.
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