ἐθνικός, -ή, -όν, [in Al.: Lev.21:7 * ;] 1. national (Polyb.). 2. foreign (gramm.); in NT, as subst., ὁ ἐ., the Gentile (the adj. "describes character rather than mere position"; cf. ἔθνος, and see Cremer, 228): Mat.5:47 6:7 18:17, 3Jo.7. † (AS)
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G1482 — ἐθνικός
ethnikos · Gentile-like · Greek
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Matthew 5:47 · ἐθνικοὶand if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?Matthew 6:7 · ἐθνικοί·‘And—praying—ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,Matthew 18:17 · ἐθνικὸςAnd if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.3 John 1:7 · ἐθνικῶν.because for His name they went forth, nothing receiving from the nations;