Lexical Summary ethnikos: national, foreign, a Gentile Original Word: ἐθνικόςTransliteration: ethnikos Phonetic Spelling: (eth-nee-kos') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: national, foreign, a Gentile Meaning: national -- foreign, a Gentile Strong's Concordance a GentileFrom ethnos; national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile -- heathen (man). see GREEK ethnos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1482: ἐθνικόςἐθνικός, 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, ὁ ἐθνικός, the pagan, the Gentile: Matthew 18:17; plural, Matthew 5:47 G L T Tr WH; |
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