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ethnos G1484

ἔθνος (ethnos) means “Gentiles” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἔθνος Greek · G1484 160 tagged occurrences in 148 verses

Pronunciation guide: eth'-nos Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G1484

ἔθνος · ethnos · Gentiles

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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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a race, people, nation; the nations, heathen world, Gentiles.

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How translators render G1484

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
gentiles 63
nations 35
nation 25
the gentiles 11
people 4
of the gentiles 3
to the gentiles 3
a nation 2
for the gentiles 2
gentile 2
pagans 2
the nations 2
among the nations 1
do the nations 1
o gentiles 1
of gentiles 1
of pagans 1
the god of gentiles 1
them 1
to a people 1
to gentiles 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the gentiles 52
nations 26
nation 21
of the gentiles 20
the nations 7
to the gentiles 7
gentiles 6
the heathen 5
unto the gentiles 5
of the nations 3
the nation 3
that nation 2
ye gentiles 2
of nations 1
people 1
that the gentiles 1
the people 1
to a nation 1
unto 1

Verses containing G1484

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  1. Acts 14:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

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  2. Acts 14:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

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  3. Acts 14:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

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  4. Acts 14:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When 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.

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  5. Acts 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Sent 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.

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  6. Acts 15:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After 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.

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  7. Acts 15:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

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  8. Acts 15:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

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  9. Acts 15:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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 things

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  10. Acts 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

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  11. Acts 15:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

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  12. Acts 17:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    From 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.

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  13. Acts 18:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But 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.”

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  14. Acts 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.’”

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  15. Acts 21:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

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  16. Acts 21:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But 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.

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  17. Acts 21:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As 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.”

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  18. Acts 22:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

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  19. Acts 24:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When 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.

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  20. Acts 24:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When 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.

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  21. Acts 24:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

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  22. Acts 26:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from my earliest childhood among my own people, and also in Jerusalem.

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  23. Acts 26:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

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  24. Acts 26:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    First 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.

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  25. Acts 26:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

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  26. Acts 28:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

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  27. Acts 28:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

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  28. Romans 1:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Through 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.

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  29. Romans 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  30. Romans 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Indeed, 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.

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  31. Romans 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

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  32. Romans 3:29 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

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  33. Romans 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    As 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.

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  34. Romans 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Against 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.”

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  35. Romans 9:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

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  36. Romans 9:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

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  37. Romans 10:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    I 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.”

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  38. Romans 11:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I 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.

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  39. Romans 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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!

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  40. Romans 11:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

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  41. Romans 11:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I 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.

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  42. Romans 15:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    so 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.”

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  43. Romans 15:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

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  44. Romans 15:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

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  45. Romans 15:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And 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.”

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  46. Romans 15:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    to 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.

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  47. Romans 15:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

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  48. Romans 15:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  49. Romans 16:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

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  50. 1 Corinthians 1:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

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