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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G1484 — ἔθνος
ethnos · Gentiles · Greek
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Matthew 4:15 · ἐθνῶν,“The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, toward the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles,Matthew 6:32 · ἔθνηFor the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.Matthew 10:5 · ἐθνῶνJesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.Matthew 10:18 · ἔθνεσιν.Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.Matthew 12:18 · ἔθνεσιν“Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him. He will proclaim justice to the nations.Matthew 12:21 · ἔθνηIn his name, the nations will hope.”Matthew 20:19 · ἔθνεσινand will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to scourge, and to crucify; and the third day he will be raised up.”Matthew 20:25 · ἐθνῶνBut Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Matthew 21:43 · ἔθνει“Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation bringing forth its fruit.Matthew 24:7 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςFor nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.Matthew 24:9 · ἐθνῶνThen they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.Matthew 24:14 · ἔθνεσιν·This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.Matthew 25:32 · ἔθνη,Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.Matthew 28:19 · ἔθνηGo, 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“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles.Mark 10:42 · ἐθνῶνJesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.Mark 11:17 · ἔθνεσιν;He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it 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 · ἔθνοςFor nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will be famines and troubles. These things are the beginning of birth pains.Mark 13:10 · ἔθνηThe Good News must first be preached to all the nations.Luke 2:32 · ἐθνῶνa light for revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.”Luke 7:5 · ἔθνοςfor he loves our nation, and he built our synagogue for us.”Luke 12:30 · ἔθνηFor the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.Luke 18:32 · ἔθνεσινFor he will be delivered up to the Gentiles, will be mocked, treated shamefully, and spit on.Luke 21:10 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςThen he said to 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 will be led captive into all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.Luke 21:25 · ἐθνῶνThere will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;Luke 22:25 · ἐθνῶνHe said to them, “The kings of the nations lord it over them, and those who have authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’Luke 23:2 · ἔθνοςThey began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”Luke 24:47 · ἔθνηand that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.John 11:48 · ἔθνος.¶If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”John 11:50 · ἔθνοςnor do you consider that it is advantageous for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation not perish.”John 11:51 · ἔθνους,Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,John 11:52 · ἔθνουςand not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.John 18:35 · ἔθνοςPilate answered, “I’m not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?”Acts 2:5 · ἔθνουςNow there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under the sky.Acts 4:25 · ἔθνηwho by the mouth of your servant, David, said, ‘Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?Acts 4:27 · ἔθνεσιν“For truly, in this city against your holy servant, Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered togetherActs 7:7 · ἔθνος‘I will judge the nation to which they will be in bondage,’ said God, ‘and after that will they come out, and serve me in this place.’Acts 7:45 · ἐθνῶν,which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered into the possession of the nations, whom God drove out before the face of our fathers, to the days of David,Acts 8:9 · ἔθνοςBut there was a certain man, Simon by name, who used to practice sorcery in the city, and amazed the people of Samaria, making himself out to be some great one,Acts 9:15 · ἐθνῶνBut the Lord said to him, “Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.Acts 10:22 · ἔθνουςThey said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”Acts 10:35 · ἔθνειbut in every nation he who fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.Acts 10:45 · ἔθνηThey of the circumcision who believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was also poured out on the Gentiles.Acts 11:1 · ἔθνηNow the apostles and the brothers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.Acts 11:18 · ἔθνεσινWhen they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”Acts 13:19 · ἔθνηWhen he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred fifty years.Acts 13:46 · ἔθνη.Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.Acts 13:47 · ἐθνῶνFor so has the Lord commanded us, saying, ‘I have set you as a light for the Gentiles, that you should bring salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth.’”Acts 13:48 · ἔθνηAs the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.Acts 14:2 · ἐθνῶνBut the disbelieving Jews stirred up and embittered the souls of the Gentiles against the brothers.Acts 14:5 · ἐθνῶνWhen some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,Acts 14:16 · ἔθνηwho in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.Acts 14:27 · ἔθνεσινWhen they had arrived, and had gathered the assembly together, they reported all the things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith to the nations.Acts 15:3 · ἐθνῶνThey, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.Acts 15:7 · ἔθνηWhen there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.Acts 15:12 · ἔθνεσινAll the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.Acts 15:14 · ἐθνῶνSimeon has reported how God first visited the nations, to take out of them a people for his name.Acts 15:17 · ἔθνη,That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.Acts 15:19 · ἐθνῶν“Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,Acts 15:23 · ἐθνῶνThey wrote these things by their hand: “The apostles, the elders, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: greetings.Acts 17:26 · ἔθνοςHe made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,Acts 18:6 · ἔθνηWhen they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”Acts 21:11 · ἐθνῶν.Coming to us, and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit: ‘So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”Acts 21:19 · ἔθνεσινWhen he had greeted them, he reported one by one the things which God had worked among the Gentiles through his ministry.Acts 21:21 · ἔθνηThey have been informed about you, that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children neither to walk after the customs.Acts 21:25 · ἐθνῶνBut concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”Acts 22:21 · ἔθνη“He said to me, ‘Depart, for I will send you out far from here to the Gentiles.’”Acts 24:2 · ἔθνειWhen he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,Acts 24:10 · ἔθνειWhen the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, “Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,Acts 24:17 · ἔθνοςNow after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;Acts 26:4 · ἔθνει“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;Acts 26:17 · ἐθνῶν,delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,Acts 26:20 · ἔθνεσινbut declared first to them of Damascus, at Jerusalem, and throughout all the country of Judea, and also to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance.Acts 26:23 · ἔθνεσιν.¶how the Christ must suffer, and how, by the resurrection of the dead, he would be first to proclaim light both to these people and to the Gentiles.”Acts 28:19 · ἔθνουςBut when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.Acts 28:28 · ἔθνεσιν“Be it known therefore to you, that the salvation of God is sent to the nations. They will also listen.”Romans 1:5 · ἔθνεσινthrough whom we received grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake;Romans 1:13 · ἔθνεσιν.Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.Romans 2:14 · ἔθνη(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves,Romans 2:24 · ἔθνεσινFor “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.Romans 3:29 · ἐθνῶν; · ἐθνῶν,Or is God the God of Jews only? Isn’t he the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,Romans 4:17 · ἐθνῶνAs it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.Romans 4:18 · ἐθνῶνWho in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your seed be.”Romans 9:24 · ἐθνῶν,us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?Romans 9:30 · ἔθνηWhat shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;Romans 10:19 · ἔθνει · ἔθνειBut I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.”Romans 11:11 · ἔθνεσινI ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.Romans 11:12 · ἐθνῶν,Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?Romans 11:13 · ἔθνεσιν· · ἐθνῶνFor I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;Romans 11:25 · ἐθνῶνFor I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,Romans 15:9 · ἔθνη · ἔθνεσινand that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore will I give praise to you among the Gentiles, and sing to your name.”Romans 15:10 · ἔθνηAgain he says, “Rejoice, you Gentiles, with his people.”Romans 15:11 · ἔθνηAgain, “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles! Let all the peoples praise him.”Romans 15:12 · ἐθνῶν, · ἔθνηAgain, Isaiah says, “There will be the root of Jesse, he who arises to rule over the Gentiles; in him the Gentiles will hope.”Romans 15:16 · ἔθνη · ἐθνῶνthat I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Romans 15:18 · ἐθνῶνFor I will not dare to speak of any things except those which Christ worked through me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,Romans 15:27 · ἔθνη,Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things.Romans 16:4 · ἐθνῶνwho for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.1 Corinthians 1:23 · ἔθνεσινbut we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,1 Corinthians 5:1 · ἔθνεσινIt is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.1 Corinthians 12:2 · ἔθνηYou know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.2 Corinthians 11:26 · ἐθνῶν,I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;Galatians 1:16 · ἔθνεσιν,to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I didn’t immediately confer with flesh and blood,Galatians 2:2 · ἔθνεσιν,I went up by revelation, and I laid before them the Good News which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately before those who were respected, for fear that I might be running, or had run, in vain.Galatians 2:8 · ἔθνη,(for he who appointed Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision appointed me also to the Gentiles);Galatians 2:9 · ἔθνη,and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, they who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.Galatians 2:12 · ἐθνῶνFor before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.Galatians 2:14 · ἔθνηBut when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?Galatians 2:15 · ἐθνῶν“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,Galatians 3:8 · ἔθνη · ἔθνη.The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”Galatians 3:14 · ἔθνηthat the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.Ephesians 2:11 · ἔθνηTherefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision,” (in the flesh, made by hands);Ephesians 3:1 · ἐθνῶν·For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,Ephesians 3:6 · ἔθνηthat the Gentiles are fellow heirs, and fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of his promise in Christ Jesus through the Good News,Ephesians 3:8 · ἔθνεσινTo me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,Ephesians 4:17 · ἔθνηThis I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,Colossians 1:27 · ἔθνεσιν,to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;1 Thessalonians 2:16 · ἔθνεσινforbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.1 Thessalonians 4:5 · ἔθνηnot in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;1 Timothy 2:7 · ἐθνῶνto which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle (I am telling the truth in Christ, not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.1 Timothy 3:16 · ἔθνεσιν,Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.2 Timothy 4:17 · ἔθνη,But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.1 Peter 2:9 · ἔθνοςBut you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:1 Peter 2:12 · ἔθνεσινhaving good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.1 Peter 4:3 · ἐθνῶνFor we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.Revelation 2:26 · ἐθνῶν·He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.Revelation 5:9 · ἔθνουςThey sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,Revelation 7:9 · ἔθνουςAfter these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.Revelation 10:11 · ἔθνεσινThey told me, “You must prophesy again over many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.”Revelation 11:2 · ἔθνεσιν·Leave out the court which is outside of the temple, and don’t measure it, for it has been given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.Revelation 11:9 · ἐθνῶνFrom among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.Revelation 11:18 · ἔθνηThe nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”Revelation 12:5 · ἔθνηShe gave birth to a son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron. Her child was caught up to God, and to his throne.Revelation 13:7 · ἔθνος.It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.Revelation 14:6 · ἔθνοςI saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.Revelation 14:8 · ἔθνη.¶Another, a second angel, followed, saying, “Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality.”Revelation 15:4 · ἔθνηWho wouldn’t fear you, Lord, and glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed.”Revelation 16:19 · ἐθνῶνThe great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.Revelation 17:15 · ἔθνηHe said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.Revelation 18:3 · ἔθνη,For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”Revelation 18:23 · ἔθνη.The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.Revelation 19:15 · ἔθνη.Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.Revelation 20:3 · ἔθνηand cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.Revelation 20:8 · ἔθνηand he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.Revelation 21:24 · ἔθνηThe nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.Revelation 21:26 · ἐθνῶνand they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.Revelation 22:2 · ἐθνῶν.in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.