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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 162 times in 150 verses in the MGNT Greek.

Page 3 / 3 (1Co 1:23–Rev 22:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 1:23 - But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 5:1 - It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, G1484 that one should have his father's wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:2 - Ye know that ye were Gentiles, G1484 carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 11:26 - In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, G1484 in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:16 - To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; G1484 immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:2 - And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, G1484 but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:8 - (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:) G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:9 - And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, G1484 and they unto the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:12 - For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: G1484 but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:14 - But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles G1484 to live as do the Jews?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 2:15 - We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:8 - And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen G1484 through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations G1484 be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 3:14 - That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles G1484 through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 2:11 - Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles G1484 in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:1 - For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:6 - That the Gentiles G1484 should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 3:8 - Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles G1484 the unsearchable riches of Christ;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:17 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles G1484 walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:27 - To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; G1484 which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 2:16 - Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles G1484 that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 4:5 - Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles G1484 which know not God:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 2:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 2:7 - Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles G1484 in faith and verity.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 3:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 3:16 - And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, G1484 believed on in the world, received up into glory.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 4:17 - Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles G1484 might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Pe 2:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:9 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, G1484 a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 2:12 - Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: G1484 that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Pe 4:3 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, G1484 when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:26 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 5:9 - And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 7:9 - After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, G1484 and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 10:11 - And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, G1484 and tongues, and kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:2 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: G1484 and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:9 - And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations G1484 shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 11:18 - And the nations G1484 were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 12:5 - And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations G1484 with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 13:7 - And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. G1484

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:6 - And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, G1484 and kindred, and tongue, and people,

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 14:8 - And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations G1484 drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 15:3 - And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 15:4 - Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations G1484 shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 16:19 - And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations G1484 fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 17:15 - And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, G1484 and tongues.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:3 - For all nations G1484 have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 18:23 - And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations G1484 deceived.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 19:15 - And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: G1484 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:3 - And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations G1484 no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 20:8 - And shall go out to deceive the nations G1484 which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 21:24

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:24 - And the nations G1484 of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 21:26 - And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations G1484 into it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 22:2 - In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. G1484

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