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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 Box Act 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 2:5 - And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:25 - Who, by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:27 - For in truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were assembled,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:7 - And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that they shall come forth, and serve me in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 7:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:45 - Which also our fathers, that came after, brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 8:9 - But there was a certain man called Simon, who before in the same city used sorcery, and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 9:15 - But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:22 - And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by a holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words from thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:35 - But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:45

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:45 - And they of the circumcision who believed, were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:1

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:1 - And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea, heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:18

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:18 - When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance to life.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:19 - And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:42

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:42 - And when the Jews had gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:46

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:46 - Then Paul and Barnabas became bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first be spoken to you: but seeing ye reject it, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:47

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:47 - For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation to the ends of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 13:48

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 13:48 - And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life, believed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:2 - But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:5 - And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews, with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:16 - Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:27 - And when they had come, and had assembled the church, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and that he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:3 - And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice, and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy to all the brethren.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:7 - And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose and said to them, Men, brethren, ye know that a good while ago, God made choice among us, that the Gentiles, by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:12 - Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought by them among the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:14 - Simeon hath declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take from among them a people for his name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:17 - That the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:19 - Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, who from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:23 - And they wrote letters by them after this manner; The apostles, and elders, and brethren, send greeting to the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 17:26

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 17:26 - And hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 18:6 - And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own heads: I am clean: from henceforth I will go to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:11 - And when he had come to us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:19 - And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:21 - And they are informed concerning thee, that thou teachest all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying, That they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - As concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from lewdness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:21

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:21 - And he said to me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:2 - And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done to this nation by thy providence,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:10

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:10 - Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge to this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:17 - Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:4 - My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among my own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:17 - Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send thee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:20 - But showed first to them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 26:23

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 26:23 - That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should show light to the people, and to the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:19 - But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Cesar; not that I had aught to accuse my nation of.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 28:28

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 28:28 - Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles, and they will hear it.
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