Greek adjective · G1482
ἐθνικός
ethnikoseth-nee-kos'
national; foreign
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ethnikós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1482is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1482
national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile
The King James renders it: heathen (man).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ethnikos is rendered "national; foreign". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "national".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 5:47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
Matthew 5:47ἐθνικοὶ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: national, and foreign.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| national(Polyb.). | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 5:47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles… |
| foreigngramm.); in NT | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 5:47And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐθνικῶς | ethnikos | Gentile-way | Uses1 |
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐθνικοί1
- ἐθνικοὶ1
- ἐθνικὸς1
- ἐθνικῶν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2A-NPM
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural1A-GPM
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1A-NSM
Matthew
three uses
And if you greet only your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even Gentiles do the same?
- ἐθνικοὶethnikoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: Gentiles
And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
- ἐθνικοίethnikoiadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: pagans
If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
- ἐθνικὸςethnikosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: pagan
3 John
one use
For they went out on behalf of the Name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.
- ἐθνικῶνethnikonadjective · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: Gentile
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.