2001 Translation

ETHNOS, ethnos

Sounds Like: ETH-nos

Translations: nation, a nation, people, a people, Gentiles, a Gentile

From the root: ἘΘΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a nation, a people group, or a race. In the New Testament, it often refers specifically to the Gentiles, meaning non-Jewish people. It can be used to describe a large group of people united by common descent, culture, or language.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1484 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:36

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 3:3, 3:5, 4:74

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 29:2, 55:6

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 12:68, 14:82, 14:91, 22:161, 22:166, 22:168, 22:186, 22:194, 23:213, 4:43, 32:220, 40:282
• Book Two — 4:43, 32:220, 40:282

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:124, 6:125, 6:135, 11:206, 12:221
• Book 3 — 14:301
• Book 4 — 8:308
• Book 6 — 7:138, 7:140, 13:324, 14:356
• Book 8 — 4:120, 10:261, 12:297
• Book 9 — 14:288
• Book 10 — 2:34, 9:184, 11:271, 11:275
• Book 11 — 1:3, 5:138, 5:162, 6:184, 6:185, 6:203, 6:211, 6:212, 6:213, 6:217, 6:221, 6:229, 6:270, 6:283, 8:323
• Book 12 — 1:6, 3:127, 3:131, 3:135, 6:161, 6:284, 9:357, 9:381, 9:385, 10:412, 10:417, 10:418, 11:434
• Book 13 — 1:1, 1:5, 1:34, 5:143, 8:243, 8:245, 13:372, 15:400, 15:401, 16:419, 16:425, 16:429, 16:433
• Book 14 — 3:41, 3:43, 4:74, 5:91, 7:117, 7:118, 10:186, 10:189, 10:265, 11:290, 12:304, 12:312, 12:320
• Book 15 — 1:8, 2:15, 7:248, 8:295, 11:383
• Book 16 — 2:38, 5:158, 6:162
• Book 17 — 1:2, 6:148, 6:181, 8:193, 10:251, 10:283, 11:307, 11:310, 12:330
• Book 18 — 1:4, 1:6, 1:25, 4:85, 6:177, 9:378
• Book 19 — 5:278, 5:284, 6:309
• Book 20 — 2:52, 10:231, 11:254

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 5:4, 5:6, 5:11, 6:6, 9:12, 12:15
• Book Two — 6:7, 10:2, 10:14, 11:17, 14:3, 14:7, 14:13, 14:34, 16:36, 16:45, 18:2, 18:27, 18:54
• Book Three — 7:2
• Book Four — 2:22, 4:8, 4:10, 4:20, 9:71
• Book Five — 9:20, 9:37
• Book Six — 9:20, 10:8
• Book Seven — 7:26, 10:17

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 27:1, 39:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 19:5, 24:2, 56:10, 85:9, 108:1, 109:2, 109:3, 119:4, 119:6, 123:1, 130:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 12:2, 15:14, 17:20, 18:18, 20:4, 21:13, 21:18, 25:16, 46:3
• Exodus — 9:24, 19:6, 23:22, 32:10, 33:13
• Leviticus — 20:2
• Numbers — 13:29, 13:32, 14:12
• Deuteronomy — 1:28, 2:10, 2:21, 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:33, 4:34, 7:17, 9:14, 26:5, 28:33, 28:36, 28:49, 28:50, 32:28
• Joshua — 24:4
• Judges — 2:20
• 2 Samuel — 7:23
• 1 Kings — 18:10
• 2 Kings — 6:18, 17:32
• 1 Chronicles — 16:20, 17:21, 29:11
• 2 Chronicles — 15:6
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:4, 1:22, 1:34, 6:32, 8:64
• Esther — 1:1, 3:8, 3:13, 4:1, 8:12, 10:3
• Judith — 9:14
• Tobit — 4:19
• 1 Maccabees — 1:34, 2:10, 3:26, 8:25, 10:5, 11:21, 11:42, 12:3, 14:29, 14:30, 15:9
• 2 Maccabees — 5:19, 11:25, 11:27
• 4 Maccabees — 4:19, 17:10, 17:20, 18:4
• Psalms — 32:12, 104:13
• Psalms of Solomon — 7:6
• Odes — 2:28
• Proverbs — 14:34, 24:61
• Wisdom — 17:2
• Sirach — 10:8, 16:9, 28:14, 46:6, 50:25
• Isaiah — 1:4, 2:4, 8:19, 10:6, 14:6, 18:2, 18:7, 30:6, 60:22, 66:8
• Jeremiah — 5:15, 7:28, 12:17, 18:7, 18:8, 18:9, 25:12, 25:16, 27:3, 27:41, 30:9, 32:18, 34:6, 34:9, 38:37
• Lamentations — 4:18
• Baruch — 4:15
• Ezekiel — 36:14, 37:22, 38:12
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 12:1
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:44, 3:96, 4:34, 11:23
• Amos — 6:14
• Micah — 4:3, 4:7
• Joel — 1:6, 3:8
• Habakkuk — 1:6
• Zephaniah — 2:1
• Haggai — 2:14

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 24:7
• Mark — 13:8
• Luke — 7:5, 21:10, 23:2
• John — 11:48, 11:50, 18:35
• Acts — 7:7, 8:9, 17:26, 24:17
• 1 Peter — 2:9
• Revelation — 13:7, 14:6

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΘΝΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἘΘΝΗ — nations, peoples, Gentiles
• ΤΟΥἘΘΝΟΥΣ — of the nation, of the people, of the Gentiles, of the race

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