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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1"/><title>Strong's Greek: 1482. ἐθνικός (ethnikos) -- Gentile, heathen, pagan</title></title><link rel="canonical" href="http://biblehub.com/greek/1482.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/strongsnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="/interlinear/vmenus/john/8-33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="//biblehu.com/bmstrongs/greek/1482.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's</a> > <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Greek</a> > 1482</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../greek/1481.htm" title="1481">◄</a> 1482. ethnikos <a href="../greek/1483.htm" title="1483">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">ethnikos: Gentile, heathen, pagan</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">ἐθνικός</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Adjective<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>ethnikos<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>eth-nee-KOS<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(eth-nee-kos')<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Gentile, heathen, pagan<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>pagan, heathen, gentile; subst: a Gentile, non-Jew.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from ἔθνος (ethnos), meaning "nation" or "people."<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>The Hebrew equivalent often used in the Old Testament is גּוֹי (goy), Strong's Hebrew 1471, which also means "nation" or "people" and is used to refer to non-Israelite nations.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "ethnikos" is used in the New Testament to refer to those who are not part of the Jewish community, often translated as "Gentile" or "heathen." It carries the connotation of someone who is outside the covenant community of Israel and, by extension, outside the early Christian community. The term can also imply a lifestyle or behavior that is contrary to the teachings of Scripture, often associated with pagan practices.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>In the first-century Greco-Roman world, the term "ethnikos" was used to distinguish between Jews and non-Jews. The Jewish people were set apart by their covenant with God, marked by practices such as circumcision, dietary laws, and Sabbath observance. Gentiles, or "ethnikos," were those who did not follow these practices and were often seen as outsiders to the faith community. The early Christian church grappled with the inclusion of Gentiles, as seen in the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15), which addressed how Gentile converts should be integrated into the predominantly Jewish Christian community.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>Cognate: 1482</b> <i>ethnikós</i>(from <i><a href="/greek/1484.htm">1484</a>/éthnos</i>, "nation") – Gentile; heathen, usually referring to <i>non-Israelites</i>; a <i>pagan</i>, a "non-covenant person," standing outside God's covenant (salvation). <a href="/greek/1484.htm">See 1484</a> (<i>ethnos</i>).</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>from <a href="/greek/1484.htm">ethnos</a><br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>national, foreign, i.e. spec. a Gentile<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>Gentile (1), Gentiles (3).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 1482: ἐθνικός</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">ἐθνικός</span></span>, <span class="greek2">ἐθνικη</span>, <span class="greek2">ἐθνικον</span> (ethnos); <p><span class="textheading">1.</span> <span class="accented">adapted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people, national</span>: <span class="abbreviation">Polybius</span>, <span class="abbreviation">Diodorus</span>, others. <p><span class="textheading">2.</span> <span class="accented">suited to the manners or language of foreigners, strange, foreign</span>; so in the grammarians (cf. our 'gentile']. <p><span class="textheading">3.</span> in the N. T. <span class="accented">savoring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish</span>; substantively, <span class="greek2">ὁ</span> <span class="greek2">ἐθνικός</span>, <span class="accented">the pagan, the Gentile</span>: <a href="/interlinear/matthew/18-17.htm">Matthew 18:17</a>; plural, <a href="/interlinear/matthew/5-47.htm">Matthew 5:47</a> <span class="manuref">G</span> <span class="manuref">L</span> <span class="manuref">T</span> <span class="manuref">Tr</span> <span class="manuref">WH</span>; <BIBLE/CHAPTER_VERSE:Matt 6:7>; and <a href="/interlinear/3_john/1-7.htm">3 John 1:7</a> <span class="manuref">L</span> <span class="manuref">T</span> <span class="manuref">Tr</span> <span class="manuref">WH</span>.<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>a Gentile<p>From <a href="/greek/1484.htm">ethnos</a>; national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile -- heathen (man). <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/1484.htm">ethnos</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>εθνικοι εθνικοί ἐθνικοί ἐθνικοὶ εθνικος εθνικός ἐθνικὸς εθνικων ἐθνικῶν ethnikoi ethnikoí ethnikoì ethnikon ethnikôn ethnikōn ethnikō̂n ethnikos ethnikòs<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/matthew/5-47.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 5:47</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural">Adj-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/5.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">καὶ οἱ <b>ἐθνικοὶ</b> τὸ αὐτὸ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/5.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> [than others]? Do not even <span class="itali">the Gentiles</span> do<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/5-47.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> also the <span class="itali">The Gentiles</span> the same<p><b><a href="/text/matthew/6-7.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 6:7</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural">Adj-NMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/6.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὥσπερ οἱ <b>ἐθνικοί</b> δοκοῦσιν γὰρ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/6.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> do not use meaningless repetition <span class="itali">as the Gentiles</span> do, for they suppose<br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/6.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> as <span class="itali">the heathen</span> [do]: for<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/6-7.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> as the <span class="itali">pagans</span> they think indeed<p><b><a href="/text/matthew/18-17.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Matthew 18:17</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular">Adj-NMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/18.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ὥσπερ ὁ <b>ἐθνικὸς</b> καὶ ὁ</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/matthew/18.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> to the church, <span class="itali">let him be to you as a Gentile</span> and a tax collector.<br><a href="/kjvs/matthew/18.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> as <span class="itali">an heathen man</span> and<br><a href="/interlinear/matthew/18-17.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> as the <span class="itali">pagan</span> and the<p><b><a href="/text/3_john/1-7.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">3 John 1:7</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural">Adj-GMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/3_john/1.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἀπὸ τῶν <b>ἐθνικῶν</b> </span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/3_john/1.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> accepting nothing <span class="itali">from the Gentiles.</span><br><a href="/interlinear/3_john/1-7.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> from the <span class="itali">Gentiles</span><p><b><a href="/greek/1482.htm">Strong's Greek 1482</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_1482.htm">4 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/ethniko_n_1482.htm">ἐθνικῶν — 1 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/ethnikoi_1482.htm">ἐθνικοὶ — 2 Occ.</a><br><a href="/greek/ethnikos_1482.htm">ἐθνικὸς — 1 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/1481.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1481"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1481" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/1483.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1483"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1483" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>