2001 Translation

ETHNOUS, ethnous

Sounds Like: ETH-noos

Translations: of a nation, of the nation, of a people, of the people, of a Gentile, of the Gentile, of a heathen, of the heathen

From the root: ΕΘΝΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a nation, a people, or a race, often used in the context of non-Israelite peoples or Gentiles. It can also refer to a group of people united by common descent, language, or culture. In the New Testament, it frequently distinguishes between Jews and non-Jews (Gentiles).

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1484 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 29:2

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 1:5, 22:172

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 12:214
• Book 2 — 9:210
• Book 4 — 1:2, 8:300
• Book 5 — 1:49, 1:55
• Book 6 — 3:32, 3:35, 5:87
• Book 7 — 14:356
• Book 11 — 5:123, 6:224, 6:225, 6:227, 6:262, 7:303, 8:326, 8:340
• Book 12 — 1:7, 3:142, 3:153, 6:163, 10:391, 10:400, 10:402, 10:419
• Book 13 — 3:65, 5:166, 10:299, 11:319, 13:376, 16:420
• Book 14 — 7:114, 8:140, 9:162, 9:163, 10:196, 10:199, 10:241, 10:248, 12:300, 12:307, 12:323, 13:325, 16:490
• Book 15 — 5:159, 6:179, 8:269, 8:281, 9:315
• Book 16 — 4:115
• Book 17 — 1:20, 6:174, 6:177, 11:300
• Book 18 — 1:1, 4:95, 4:106, 8:275
• Book 20 — 1:12, 10:238, 10:243, 10:244, 10:251

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 2:17, 3:21, 5:21, 7:4, 8:15, 11:13, 11:19, 20:22, 27:12, 29:1, 29:9
• Book Two — 6:1, 6:13, 10:19, 12:3, 14:10, 20:15, 22:8
• Book Three — 2:26
• Book Four — 2:6, 3:15, 4:51, 7:10
• Book Five — 9:48, 9:61, 10:24
• Book Six — 1:17, 6:24, 9:14

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 53:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 119:4

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:2, 6:24, 7:29

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Exodus — 23:11
• Numbers — 25:15
• Deuteronomy — 4:34
• 1 Chronicles — 16:20
• 2 Chronicles — 32:7, 32:15
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:32, 2:5, 5:9, 8:10, 8:13
• Judith — 12:3
• Tobit — 1:17, 2:3
• 1 Maccabees — 3:59, 6:58, 9:29, 10:20, 11:25, 12:6, 13:6, 14:28, 14:29, 14:32, 16:3
• 2 Maccabees — 5:20, 6:31, 14:34
• 3 Maccabees — 2:27, 2:33
• 4 Maccabees — 1:11, 3:7, 4:1, 4:7, 4:18, 4:24, 4:26, 15:29, 16:16, 17:8, 17:22
• Psalms — 42:1, 82:5, 104:13, 105:5
• Proverbs — 28:15
• Job — 34:29
• Wisdom — 10:15
• Sirach — 10:8, 28:14
• Jeremiah — 31:2, 32:18
• Ezekiel — 36:13
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 8:22
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:30, 8:22, 11:14, 11:33
• Zephaniah — 2:9

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• John — 11:51, 11:52
• Acts — 2:5, 10:22, 28:19
• Revelation — 5:9, 7:9

From the same root

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

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.

• ΑΙΘΝΩΝ — of the nations, of the Gentiles, of the peoples
• ἘΘΘΝΗ — nations, the nations, Gentiles, the Gentiles, a nation, a Gentile
• ἘΘΝΕΙ — (to) nation, (to) people, (to) Gentiles, (to) a nation, (to) a people
• ἘΘΝΕΣΙ — to nations, for nations, among nations, nations, to Gentiles, for Gentiles, among Gentiles, Gentiles
• ἘΘΝΕΣΙΝ — (to) nations, (to) peoples, (to) Gentiles
• ἘΘΝΗΔΟΝ — after the manner of the Gentiles, nationally, ethnically
• ἘΘΝΙΚΗ — Gentile, national, heathen, pagan
• ἘΘΝΟΥΣΤΗΝ — nation, a nation, people, a people, Gentiles, a Gentile
• ἘΘΝΩΝ — of nations, of Gentiles, of peoples, of the nations, of the Gentiles, of the peoples
• ΕΘΝΕ — nation, a nation, people, a people, Gentiles
• ΕΘΝΕΙ — to a nation, to a people, to a Gentile, to a heathen, for a nation, for a people, for a Gentile, for a heathen
• ΕΘΝΕΣΕΙΝ — to nations, to Gentiles, to peoples, to races
• ΕΘΝΕΣΙ — to the nations, for the nations, among the nations, to the Gentiles, for the Gentiles, among the Gentiles, to the peoples, for the peoples, among the peoples
• ΕΘΝΕΣΙΝ — (to) nations, (to) Gentiles, (to) peoples
• ΕΘΝΗ — nations, Gentiles, peoples
• ΕΘΝΙΚΟΙ — Gentiles, a Gentile, nations, the nations, heathen, a heathen
• ΕΘΝΙΚΟΣ — Gentile, a Gentile, heathen, a heathen, pagan, a pagan, national
• ΕΘΝΙΚΩΣ — as the Gentiles, in a Gentile manner, Gentile-like
• ΕΘΝΟΣ — nation, a nation, people, a people, Gentile, a Gentile, heathen, a heathen
• ΕΘΝΟΥΣ — of a nation, of a people, of a race, of a gentile, of a heathen
• ΕΘΝΣΙΝ — to nations, to peoples, to Gentiles
• ΕΘΝΩ — unknown
• ΕΘΝΩΝ — of nations, of Gentiles, of peoples
• ΘΝ — nations, Gentiles, peoples
• ΘΝΗ — nations, Gentiles, a nation, a Gentile, the nations, the Gentiles
• ΤΑἘΘΝΗ — the nations, the Gentiles, the peoples

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