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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. 1 Corinthians 5:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It 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.

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  2. 1 Corinthians 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

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  3. 2 Corinthians 11:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  4. Galatians 1:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  5. Galatians 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  6. Galatians 2:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.

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  7. Galatians 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  8. Galatians 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For 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.

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  9. Galatians 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When 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?”

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  10. Galatians 2:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

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  11. Galatians 3:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

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  12. Galatians 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He 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.

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  13. Ephesians 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Therefore 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)—

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  14. Ephesians 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

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  15. Ephesians 3:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This 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.

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  16. Ephesians 3:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Though 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,

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  17. Ephesians 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So 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.

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  18. Colossians 1:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  19. 1 Thessalonians 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    hindering 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.

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  20. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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  21. 1 Timothy 2:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For 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.

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  22. 1 Timothy 3:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  23. 2 Timothy 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  24. 1 Peter 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But 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.

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  25. 1 Peter 2:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Conduct 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.

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  26. 1 Peter 4:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For 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.

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  27. Revelation 2:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

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  28. Revelation 5:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And 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.

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  29. Revelation 7:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After 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.

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  30. Revelation 10:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

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  31. Revelation 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  32. Revelation 11:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For 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.

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  33. Revelation 11:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The 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.”

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  34. Revelation 12:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And 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.

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  35. Revelation 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  36. Revelation 14:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then 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.

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  37. Revelation 14:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  38. Revelation 15:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Who 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.”

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  39. Revelation 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The 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.

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  40. Revelation 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

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  41. Revelation 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  42. Revelation 18:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

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  43. Revelation 19:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  44. Revelation 20:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And 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.

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  45. Revelation 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and 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.

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  46. Revelation 21:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

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  47. Revelation 21:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

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  48. Revelation 22:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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