ἔθνος, -ους, τό, [in LXX chiefly for עַם ,גּוֹי ;] 1. a multitude, a company, whether of beasts or men (Hom.). 2. a nation, people: Mat.21:43 24:7, Mrk.13:8, Luk.22:25, Act.10:35, al.; in sing., of the Jewish people, Luk.7:5 23:2, Jhn.11:48, 50-53 18:35, Act.10:22 24:3, 10 26:4 28:19. 3. In pl., as in OT, τὰ ἔ. (like Heb. הַגּוֹיִם), the nations, as distinct from Israel, Gentiles: Mat.4:15 6:32, Act.26:17, Rom.3:29 11:11 15:10, Gal.2:8, al.; of Gentile Christians, Rom.11:13 15:27 16:4, Gal.2:12, 14, Eph.3:1. SYN.: λαός (see DCG, ii, 229; Cremer, 226). (AS)
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Matthew 4:15 · ἐθνῶν,“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—Matthew 6:32 · ἔθνηFor the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.Matthew 10:5 · ἐθνῶνThese twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.Matthew 10:18 · ἔθνεσιν.On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.Matthew 12:18 · ἔθνεσιν“Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.Matthew 12:21 · ἔθνηIn His name the nations will put their hope.”Matthew 20:19 · ἔθνεσινand will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”Matthew 20:25 · ἐθνῶνBut Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.Matthew 21:43 · ἔθνειTherefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.Matthew 24:7 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςNation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.Matthew 24:9 · ἐθνῶνThen they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.Matthew 24:14 · ἔθνεσιν·And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.Matthew 25:32 · ἔθνη,All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.Matthew 28:19 · ἔθνηTherefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,Mark 10:33 · ἔθνεσιν“Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,Mark 10:42 · ἐθνῶνSo Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.Mark 11:17 · ἔθνεσιν;Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”Mark 13:8 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςNation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.Mark 13:10 · ἔθνηAnd the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.Luke 2:32 · ἐθνῶνa light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”Luke 7:5 · ἔθνοςfor he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”Luke 12:30 · ἔθνηFor the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.Luke 18:32 · ἔθνεσινHe will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.Luke 21:10 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςThen He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.Luke 21:24 · ἔθνη · ἐθνῶν · ἐθνῶν.They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Luke 21:25 · ἐθνῶνThere will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.Luke 22:25 · ἐθνῶνSo Jesus declared, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them call themselves benefactors.Luke 23:2 · ἔθνοςAnd they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”Luke 24:47 · ἔθνηand in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.John 11:48 · ἔθνος.¶If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”John 11:50 · ἔθνοςYou do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”John 11:51 · ἔθνους,Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,John 11:52 · ἔθνουςand not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.John 18:35 · ἔθνος“Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”Acts 2:5 · ἔθνουςNow there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.Acts 4:25 · ἔθνηYou spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?Acts 4:27 · ἔθνεσινIn fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.Acts 7:7 · ἔθνος‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’Acts 7:45 · ἐθνῶν,And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,Acts 8:9 · ἔθνοςPrior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,Acts 9:15 · ἐθνῶν“Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.Acts 10:22 · ἔθνους“Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”Acts 10:35 · ἔθνειbut welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.Acts 10:45 · ἔθνηAll the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.Acts 11:1 · ἔθνηThe apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.Acts 11:18 · ἔθνεσινWhen they heard this, they had no further objections, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”Acts 13:19 · ἔθνηAnd having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.Acts 13:46 · ἔθνη.Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.Acts 13:47 · ἐθνῶνFor this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”Acts 13:48 · ἔθνηWhen the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.Acts 14:2 · ἐθνῶνBut the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.Acts 14:5 · ἐθνῶνBut when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,Acts 14:16 · ἔθνηIn past generations, He let all nations go their own way.Acts 14:27 · ἔθνεσινWhen they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.Acts 15:3 · ἐθνῶνSent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.Acts 15:7 · ἔθνηAfter much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.Acts 15:12 · ἔθνεσινThe whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.Acts 15:14 · ἐθνῶνSimon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.Acts 15:17 · ἔθνη,so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these thingsActs 15:19 · ἐθνῶνIt is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.Acts 15:23 · ἐθνῶνand sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.Acts 17:26 · ἔθνοςFrom one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.Acts 18:6 · ἔθνηBut when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”Acts 21:11 · ἐθνῶν.Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”Acts 21:19 · ἔθνεσινPaul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.Acts 21:21 · ἔθνηBut they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.Acts 21:25 · ἐθνῶνAs for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”Acts 22:21 · ἔθνηThen He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”Acts 24:2 · ἔθνειWhen Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.Acts 24:10 · ἔθνειWhen the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he began his response: “Knowing that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my defense.Acts 24:17 · ἔθνοςAfter several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.Acts 26:4 · ἔθνειSurely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.Acts 26:17 · ἐθνῶν,I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to themActs 26:20 · ἔθνεσινFirst to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.Acts 26:23 · ἔθνεσιν.¶that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 28:19 · ἔθνουςBut when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.Acts 28:28 · ἔθνεσινBe advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”Romans 1:5 · ἔθνεσινThrough Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.Romans 1:13 · ἔθνεσιν.I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.Romans 2:14 · ἔθνηIndeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.Romans 2:24 · ἔθνεσινAs it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”Romans 3:29 · ἐθνῶν; · ἐθνῶν,Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,Romans 4:17 · ἐθνῶνAs it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.Romans 4:18 · ἐθνῶνAgainst all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”Romans 9:24 · ἐθνῶν,including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?Romans 9:30 · ἔθνηWhat then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;Romans 10:19 · ἔθνει · ἔθνειI ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”Romans 11:11 · ἔθνεσινI ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.Romans 11:12 · ἐθνῶν,But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!Romans 11:13 · ἔθνεσιν· · ἐθνῶνI am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministryRomans 11:25 · ἐθνῶνI do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.Romans 15:9 · ἔθνη · ἔθνεσινso that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”Romans 15:10 · ἔθνηAgain, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”Romans 15:11 · ἔθνηAnd again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”Romans 15:12 · ἐθνῶν, · ἔθνηAnd once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”Romans 15:16 · ἔθνη · ἐθνῶνto be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Romans 15:18 · ἐθνῶνI will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,Romans 15:27 · ἔθνη,They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.Romans 16:4 · ἐθνῶνwho have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.1 Corinthians 1:23 · ἔθνεσινbut we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,1 Corinthians 5:1 · ἔθνεσινIt is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.1 Corinthians 12:2 · ἔθνηYou know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.2 Corinthians 11:26 · ἐθνῶν,In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,Galatians 1:16 · ἔθνεσιν,to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,Galatians 2:2 · ἔθνεσιν,I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.Galatians 2:8 · ἔθνη,For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.Galatians 2:9 · ἔθνη,And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.Galatians 2:12 · ἐθνῶνFor before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.Galatians 2:14 · ἔθνηWhen I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”Galatians 2:15 · ἐθνῶνWe who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”Galatians 3:8 · ἔθνη · ἔθνη.The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”Galatians 3:14 · ἔθνηHe redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.Ephesians 2:11 · ἔθνηTherefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—Ephesians 3:1 · ἐθνῶν·For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...Ephesians 3:6 · ἔθνηThis mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.Ephesians 3:8 · ἔθνεσινThough I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,Ephesians 4:17 · ἔθνηSo I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.Colossians 1:27 · ἔθνεσιν,To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.1 Thessalonians 2:16 · ἔθνεσινhindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.1 Thessalonians 4:5 · ἔθνηnot in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;1 Timothy 2:7 · ἐθνῶνFor this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.1 Timothy 3:16 · ἔθνεσιν,By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.2 Timothy 4:17 · ἔθνη,But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.1 Peter 2:9 · ἔθνοςBut you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.1 Peter 2:12 · ἔθνεσινConduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.1 Peter 4:3 · ἐθνῶνFor you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.Revelation 2:26 · ἐθνῶν·And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.Revelation 5:9 · ἔθνουςAnd they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.Revelation 7:9 · ἔθνουςAfter this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.Revelation 10:11 · ἔθνεσινAnd they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”Revelation 11:2 · ἔθνεσιν·But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.Revelation 11:9 · ἐθνῶνFor three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.Revelation 11:18 · ἔθνηThe nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Revelation 12:5 · ἔθνηAnd she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.Revelation 13:7 · ἔθνος.Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.Revelation 14:6 · ἔθνοςThen I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.Revelation 14:8 · ἔθνη.¶Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”Revelation 15:4 · ἔθνηWho will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”Revelation 16:19 · ἐθνῶνThe great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.Revelation 17:15 · ἔθνηThen the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.Revelation 18:3 · ἔθνη,All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”Revelation 18:23 · ἔθνη.The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”Revelation 19:15 · ἔθνη.And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.Revelation 20:3 · ἔθνηAnd he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.Revelation 20:8 · ἔθνηand will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.Revelation 21:24 · ἔθνηBy its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.Revelation 21:26 · ἐθνῶνAnd into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.Revelation 22:2 · ἐθνῶν.down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.