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, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations!—Matthew 6:32 · ἔθνηfor all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;Matthew 10:5 · ἐθνῶνThese twelve did Jesus send forth, having given command to them, saying, ‘To the way of the nations go not away, and into a city of the Samaritans go not in,Matthew 10:18 · ἔθνεσιν.and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.Matthew 12:18 · ἔθνεσιν‘Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,Matthew 12:21 · ἔθνηand in his name shall nations hope.’Matthew 20:19 · ἔθνεσινand they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.’Matthew 20:25 · ἐθνῶνand Jesus having called them near, said, ‘Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,Matthew 21:43 · ἔθνει‘Because of this I say to you, that the reign of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth its fruit;Matthew 24:7 · ἔθνος · ἔθνος‘For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;Matthew 24:9 · ἐθνῶνthen they shall deliver you up to tribulation, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated by all the nations because of my name;Matthew 24:14 · ἔθνεσιν·and this good news of the reign shall be proclaimed in all the world, for a testimony to all the nations; and then shall the end arrive.Matthew 25:32 · ἔθνη,and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,Matthew 28:19 · ἔθνηhaving gone, then, disciple all the nations, (baptizing them—to the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,Mark 10:33 · ἔθνεσιν—‘Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man shall be delivered to the chief priests, and to the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations,Mark 10:42 · ἐθνῶνbut Jesus having called them near, saith to them, ‘Ye have known that they who are considered to rule the nations do exercise lordship over them, and their great ones do exercise authority upon them;Mark 11:17 · ἔθνεσιν;and he was teaching, saying to them, ‘Hath it not been written—My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?’Mark 13:8 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςfor nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows are these.Mark 13:10 · ἔθνηand to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed.Luke 2:32 · ἐθνῶνa light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.’Luke 7:5 · ἔθνοςfor he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.’Luke 12:30 · ἔθνηfor all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father hath known that ye have need of these things;Luke 18:32 · ἔθνεσινfor he shall be delivered up to the nations, and shall be mocked, and insulted, and spit upon,Luke 21:10 · ἔθνος · ἔθνοςThen said he to them, ‘Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom,Luke 21:24 · ἔθνη · ἐθνῶν · ἐθνῶν.and they shall fall by the mouth of the sword, and shall be led captive to all the nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by nations, till the times of nations be fulfilled.Luke 21:25 · ἐθνῶνAnd there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land is distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;Luke 22:25 · ἐθνῶνAnd he said to them, ‘The kings of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those exercising authority upon them are called benefactors;Luke 23:2 · ἔθνοςand began to accuse him, saying, ‘This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.’Luke 24:47 · ἔθνηand reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:John 11:48 · ἔθνος.¶if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.’John 11:50 · ἔθνοςnor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.’John 11:51 · ἔθνους,And this he said not of himself, but being chief priest of that year, he did prophesy that Jesus was about to die for the nation,John 11:52 · ἔθνουςand not for the nation only, but that also the children of God, who have been scattered abroad, he may gather together into one.John 18:35 · ἔθνοςPilate answered, ‘Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?’Acts 2:5 · ἔθνουςAnd there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,Acts 4:25 · ἔθνηwho, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things?Acts 4:27 · ἔθνεσινfor gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint, were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel,Acts 7:7 · ἔθνοςand the nation whom they shall serve I will judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and shall do Me service in this place.Acts 7:45 · ἐθνῶν,which also our fathers having in succession received, did bring in with Joshua, into the possession of the nations whom God did drive out from the presence of our fathers, till the days of David,Acts 8:9 · ἔθνοςAnd a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,Acts 9:15 · ἐθνῶνAnd the Lord said unto him, ‘Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings—the sons also of Israel;Acts 10:22 · ἔθνουςAnd they said, ‘Cornelius, a centurion, a man righteous and fearing God, well testified to, also, by all the nation of the Jews, was divinely warned by a holy messenger to send for thee, to his house, and to hear sayings from thee.’Acts 10:35 · ἔθνειbut in every nation he who is fearing Him, and is working righteousness, is acceptable to Him;Acts 10:45 · ἔθνηand those of the circumcision believing were astonished—as many as came with Peter—because also upon the nations the gift of the Holy Spirit hath been poured out,Acts 11:1 · ἔθνηAnd the apostles and the brethren who are in Judea heard that also the nations did receive the word of God,Acts 11:18 · ἔθνεσινAnd they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, ‘Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.’Acts 13:19 · ἔθνηand having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He did divide by lot to them their land.Acts 13:46 · ἔθνη.And speaking boldly, Paul and Barnabas said, ‘To you it was necessary that first the word of God be spoken, and seeing ye do thrust it away, and do not judge yourselves worthy of the life age-during, lo, we do turn to the nations;Acts 13:47 · ἐθνῶνfor so hath the Lord commanded us: I have set thee for a light of nations—for thy being for salvation unto the end of the earth.’Acts 13:48 · ἔθνηAnd the nations hearing were glad, and were glorifying the word of the Lord, and did believe—as many as were appointed to life age-during;Acts 14:2 · ἐθνῶνand the unbelieving Jews did stir up and made evil the souls of the nations against the brethren;Acts 14:5 · ἐθνῶνand when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,Acts 14:16 · ἔθνηwho in the past generations did suffer all the nations to go on in their ways,Acts 14:27 · ἔθνεσινand having come and gathered together the assembly, they declared as many things as God did with them, and that He did open to the nations a door of faith;Acts 15:3 · ἐθνῶνthey indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.Acts 15:7 · ἔθνηand there having been much disputing, Peter having risen up said unto them, ‘Men, brethren, ye know that from former days, God among us did make choice, through my mouth, for the nations to hear the word of the good news, and to believe;Acts 15:12 · ἔθνεσινAnd all the multitude did keep silence, and were hearkening to Barnabas and Paul, declaring as many signs and wonders as God did among the nations through them;Acts 15:14 · ἐθνῶνSimeon did declare how at first God did look after to take out of the nations a people for His name,Acts 15:17 · ἔθνη,that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.Acts 15:19 · ἐθνῶνwherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,Acts 15:23 · ἐθνῶνhaving written through their hand thus: ‘The apostles, and the elders, and the brethren, to those in Antioch, and Syria, and Cilicia, brethren, who are of the nations, greeting;Acts 17:26 · ἔθνοςHe made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth—having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings—Acts 18:6 · ἔθνηand on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken his garments, he said unto them, ‘Your blood is upon your head—I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.’Acts 21:11 · ἐθνῶν.and he having come unto us, and having taken up the girdle of Paul, having bound also his own hands and feet, said, ‘Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose is this girdle—so shall the Jews in Jerusalem bind, and they shall deliver him up to the hands of nations.’Acts 21:19 · ἔθνεσινand having saluted them, he was declaring, one by one, each of the things God did among the nations through his ministration,Acts 21:21 · ἔθνηand they are instructed concerning thee, that apostasy from Moses thou dost teach to all Jews among the nations, saying—Not to circumcise the children, nor after the customs to walk;Acts 21:25 · ἐθνῶν‘And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.’Acts 22:21 · ἔθνηand he said unto me, Go, because to nations far off I will send thee.’Acts 24:2 · ἔθνειand he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, ‘Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,Acts 24:10 · ἔθνειAnd Paul answered—the governor having beckoned to him to speak—‘Knowing that for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;Acts 24:17 · ἔθνος‘And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,Acts 26:4 · ἔθνει‘The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth—which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem—know do all the Jews,Acts 26:17 · ἐθνῶν,delivering thee from the people, and the nations, to whom now I send thee,Acts 26:20 · ἔθνεσινbut to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;Acts 26:23 · ἔθνεσιν.¶that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.’Acts 28:19 · ἔθνουςand the Jews having spoken against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar—not as having anything to accuse my nation of;Acts 28:28 · ἔθνεσιν‘Be it known, therefore, to you, that to the nations was sent the salvation of God, these also will hear it;’Romans 1:5 · ἔθνεσινthrough whom we did receive grace and apostleship, for obedience of faith among all the nations, in behalf of his name;Romans 1:13 · ἔθνεσιν.And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you—and was hindered till the present time—that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.Romans 2:14 · ἔθνηFor, when nations that have not a law, by nature may do the things of the law, these not having a law—to themselves are a law;Romans 2:24 · ἔθνεσινfor the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.Romans 3:29 · ἐθνῶν; · ἐθνῶν,The God of Jews only is He, and not also of nations?Romans 4:17 · ἐθνῶνwho is father of us all (according as it hath been written—‘A father of many nations I have set thee,’) before Him whom he did believe—God, who is quickening the dead, and is calling the things that be not as being.Romans 4:18 · ἐθνῶνWho, against hope in hope did believe, for his becoming father of many nations according to that spoken: ‘So shall thy seed be;’Romans 9:24 · ἐθνῶν,not only out of Jews, but also out of nations,Romans 9:30 · ἔθνηWhat, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that is of faith,Romans 10:19 · ἔθνει · ἔθνειBut I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, ‘I will provoke you to jealousy by that which is not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,’Romans 11:11 · ἔθνεσινI say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation is to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;Romans 11:12 · ἐθνῶν,and if the fall of them is the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?Romans 11:13 · ἔθνεσιν· · ἐθνῶνFor to you I speak—to the nations—inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;Romans 11:25 · ἐθνῶνFor I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret—that ye may not be wise in your own conceits—that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;Romans 15:9 · ἔθνη · ἔθνεσινand the nations for kindness to glorify God, according as it hath been written, ‘Because of this I will confess to Thee among nations, and to Thy name I will sing praise,’Romans 15:10 · ἔθνηand again it saith, ‘Rejoice ye nations, with His people;’Romans 15:11 · ἔθνηand again, ‘Praise the Lord, all ye nations; and laud Him, all ye peoples;’Romans 15:12 · ἐθνῶν, · ἔθνηand again, Isaiah saith, ‘There shall be the root of Jesse, and he who is rising to rule nations—upon him shall nations hope;’Romans 15:16 · ἔθνη · ἐθνῶνfor my being a servant of Jesus Christ to the nations, acting as priest in the good news of God, that the offering up of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.Romans 15:18 · ἐθνῶνfor I will not dare to speak anything of the things that Christ did not work through me, to obedience of nations, by word and deed,Romans 15:27 · ἔθνη,for it pleased well, and their debtors they are, for if in their spiritual things the nations did participate, they ought also, in the fleshly things, to minister to them.Romans 16:4 · ἐθνῶνwho for my life their own neck did lay down, to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the nations—1 Corinthians 1:23 · ἔθνεσινalso we—we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,1 Corinthians 5:1 · ἔθνεσινWhoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations—as that one hath the wife of the father!—1 Corinthians 12:2 · ἔθνηye have known that ye were nations, unto the dumb idols—as ye were led—being carried away;2 Corinthians 11:26 · ἐθνῶν,journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;Galatians 1:16 · ἔθνεσιν,to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,Galatians 2:2 · ἔθνεσιν,and I went up by revelation, and did submit to them the good news that I preach among the nations, and privately to those esteemed, lest in vain I might run or did run;Galatians 2:8 · ἔθνη,for He who did work with Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, did work also in me in regard to the nations,Galatians 2:9 · ἔθνη,and having known the grace that was given to me, James, and Cephas, and John, who were esteemed to be pillars, a right hand of fellowship they did give to me, and to Barnabas, that we to the nations, and they to the circumcision may go,Galatians 2:12 · ἐθνῶνfor before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,Galatians 2:14 · ἔθνηBut when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, ‘If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?Galatians 2:15 · ἐθνῶνwe by nature Jews, and not sinners of the nations,Galatians 3:8 · ἔθνη · ἔθνη.and the Writing having foreseen that by faith God doth declare righteous the nations did proclaim before the good news to Abraham—Galatians 3:14 · ἔθνηthat to the nations the blessing of Abraham may come in Christ Jesus, that the promise of the Spirit we may receive through the faith.Ephesians 2:11 · ἔθνηWherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,Ephesians 3:1 · ἐθνῶν·For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,Ephesians 3:6 · ἔθνηthat the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,Ephesians 3:8 · ἔθνεσινto me—the less than the least of all the saints—was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news—the untraceable riches of the Christ,Ephesians 4:17 · ἔθνηThis, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,Colossians 1:27 · ἔθνεσιν,to whom God did will to make known what is the riches of the glory of this secret among the nations—which is Christ in you, the hope of the glory,1 Thessalonians 2:16 · ἔθνεσινforbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them—to the end!1 Thessalonians 4:5 · ἔθνηnot in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,1 Timothy 2:7 · ἐθνῶνin regard to which I was set a preacher and apostle—truth I say in Christ, I do not lie—a teacher of nations, in faith and truth.1 Timothy 3:16 · ἔθνεσιν,and, confessedly, great is the secret of piety—God was manifested in flesh, declared righteous in spirit, seen by messengers, preached among nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory!2 Timothy 4:17 · ἔθνη,and the Lord stood by me, and did strengthen me, that through me the preaching might be fully assured, and all the nations might hear, and I was freed out of the mouth of a lion,1 Peter 2:9 · ἔθνοςand ye are a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;1 Peter 2:12 · ἔθνεσινhaving your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.1 Peter 4:3 · ἐθνῶνfor sufficient to us is the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revellings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,Revelation 2:26 · ἐθνῶν·and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,Revelation 5:9 · ἔθνουςand they sing a new song, saying, ‘Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,Revelation 7:9 · ἔθνουςAfter these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,Revelation 10:11 · ἔθνεσινand he saith to me, ‘It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings—many.’Revelation 11:2 · ἔθνεσιν·and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;Revelation 11:9 · ἐθνῶνand they shall behold—they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations—their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,Revelation 11:18 · ἔθνηand the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.’Revelation 12:5 · ἔθνηand she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and caught away was her child unto God and His throne,Revelation 13:7 · ἔθνος.and there was given to it to make war with the saints, and to overcome them, and there was given to it authority over every tribe, and tongue, and nation.Revelation 14:6 · ἔθνοςAnd I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,Revelation 14:8 · ἔθνη.¶And another messenger did follow, saying, ‘Fall, fall, did Babylon, the great city, because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom she hath given to all nations to drink.’Revelation 15:4 · ἔθνηwho may not fear Thee, O Lord, and glorify Thy name? because Thou alone art kind, because all the nations shall come and bow before Thee, because Thy righteous acts were manifested.’Revelation 16:19 · ἐθνῶνAnd it came—the great city—into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,Revelation 17:15 · ἔθνηAnd he saith to me, ‘The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;’Revelation 18:3 · ἔθνη,because of the wine of the wrath of her whoredom have all the nations drunk, and the kings of the earth with her did commit whoredom, and merchants of the earth from the power of her revel were made rich.Revelation 18:23 · ἔθνη.and light of a lamp may not shine at all in thee any more; and voice of bridegroom and of bride may not be heard at all in thee any more; because thy merchants were the great ones of the earth, because in thy sorcery were all the nations led astray,Revelation 19:15 · ἔθνη.and out of his mouth doth proceed a sharp sword, that with it he may smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he doth tread the press of the wine of the wrath and the anger of God the Almighty,Revelation 20:3 · ἔθνηand he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little time.Revelation 20:8 · ἔθνηand he shall go forth to lead the nations astray, that are in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to gather them together to war, of whom the number is as the sand of the sea;Revelation 21:24 · ἔθνηand the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it,Revelation 21:26 · ἐθνῶνand they shall bring the glory and the honour of the nations into it;Revelation 22:2 · ἐθνῶν.in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, is a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree are for the service of the nations;