1482. ethnikos
Strong's Concordance
ethnikos: national, foreign, i.e. spec. a Gentile
Original Word: ἐθνικός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: ethnikos
Phonetic Spelling: (eth-nee-kos')
Definition: national, foreign, a Gentile
Usage: pagan, heathen, gentile; subst: a Gentile, non-Jew.
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Cognate: 1482 ethnikós(from 1484/éthnos, "nation") – Gentile; heathen, usually referring to non-Israelites; a pagan, a "non-covenant person," standing outside God's covenant (salvation). See 1484 (ethnos).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from ethnos
Definition
national, foreign, i.e. spec. a Gentile
NASB Translation
Gentile (1), Gentiles (3).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1482: ἐθνικός

ἐθνικός, ἐθνικη, ἐθνικον (ethnos);

1. adapted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people, national: Polybius, Diodorus, others.

2. suited to the manners or language of foreigners, strange, foreign; so in the grammarians (cf. our 'gentile'].

3. in the N. T. savoring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish; substantively, ἐθνικός, the pagan, the Gentile: Matthew 18:17; plural, Matthew 5:47 G L T Tr WH; ; and 3 John 1:7 L T Tr WH.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
a Gentile

From ethnos; national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile -- heathen (man).

see GREEK ethnos

Forms and Transliterations
εθνικοι εθνικοί ἐθνικοί ἐθνικοὶ εθνικος εθνικός ἐθνικὸς εθνικων ἐθνικῶν ethnikoi ethnikoí ethnikoì ethnikon ethnikôn ethnikōn ethnikō̂n ethnikos ethnikòs
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Englishman's Concordance
Matthew 5:47 Adj-NMP
GRK: καὶ οἱ ἐθνικοὶ τὸ αὐτὸ
NAS: [than others]? Do not even the Gentiles do
INT: also the The Gentiles the same

Matthew 6:7 Adj-NMP
GRK: ὥσπερ οἱ ἐθνικοί δοκοῦσιν γὰρ
NAS: do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose
KJV: as the heathen [do]: for
INT: as the pagans they think indeed

Matthew 18:17 Adj-NMS
GRK: ὥσπερ ὁ ἐθνικὸς καὶ ὁ
NAS: to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
KJV: as an heathen man and
INT: as the pagan and the

3 John 1:7 Adj-GMP
GRK: ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνικῶν
NAS: accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
INT: from the Gentiles

Strong's Greek 1482
4 Occurrences


ἐθνικῶν — 1 Occ.
ἐθνικοὶ — 2 Occ.
ἐθνικὸς — 1 Occ.

















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