2001 Translation

ELLĒN, ellēn

Sounds Like: HEL-lane

Translations: Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile

From the root: ΕΛΛΗΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a Greek person, someone of Greek origin or culture. In a broader sense, especially in the New Testament, it can refer to a Gentile, meaning anyone who is not a Jew. It is used to distinguish between Jewish people and non-Jewish people, often implying a cultural or religious difference rather than just an ethnic one.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G1672 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:7

Codex Sinaiticus

• Acts of the Apostles — 16:3
• Galatians — 2:3, 3:28

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 14:138
• Book Two — 14:138

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 14:15

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 16:3
• Galatians — 2:3, 3:28
• Colossians — 3:11

From the same root

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

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.

• ἘΛΙΗΝ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
• ΕΛΛ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
• ΕΛΛΗΝΑΣ — Greeks, a Greek, a Gentile
• ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ — Greeks, a Greek
• ΕΛΛΗΝΙ — to a Greek, to a Gentile, to a Hellene, to a heathen, to a Greek-speaking person, to a Greek-speaking Jew
• ΕΛΛΗΝΙΑΝΩΝ — of Greeks, of Hellenists, of Gentiles
• ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΟΣ — Greek, Hellenic
• ΕΛΛΗΝΙΟΥ — of a Greek, of the Greek, of a Gentile, of the Gentile
• ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΤΙ — in Greek, in the Greek language, Greek-speaking
• ΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ — of a Greek, of a Gentile, of a Hellene
• ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ — of the Greeks, Greeks
• ΕΛΛΗΣ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile
• ΕΛΛΗΣΙ — (to) Greeks, (to) Gentiles, (to) Heathens
• ΕΛΛΗΣΙΝ — to Greeks, for Greeks, by Greeks
• ΕΛΛ‾Η‾ — Greek, a Greek, Gentile, a Gentile

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