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Greek noun (neuter) · G1484

ἔθνος

ethnoseth'-nos

a multitude, a company; a nation, people; In pl., as in OT, τὰ ἔ. (like Heb. הַגּוֹיִם)

161 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: éthnos

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1484is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 16 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 9
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1484

a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)

The King James renders it: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

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

ethnos is rendered "a multitude, a company; a nation, people; In pl., as in OT, τὰ ἔ. (like Heb. הַגּוֹיִם)". It stands 161 times in the Greek text, across sixteen books.

  • Forty-three of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "a multitude, a company".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 4:15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—
  • The Greek text spells it nine different ways.

The first use

“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

Matthew 4:15ἐθνῶν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

The word carries three meanings: a multitude, a company, and a nation, people, and In pl., as in OT, τὰ ἔ. (like Heb. הַגּוֹיִם).

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
a multitude, a companywhether of beasts or men (Hom.).Tagged as
  • nations33
  • a nation3
  • of the Gentiles2
  • pagans2
  • the Gentiles2
  • nations’1
  • of nations1
  • over Gentiles1

and 3 more, 48 uses in all

WhereMatthew 4:15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan…
a nation, peopleMat.21:43 24:7Tagged as
  • Gentiles72
  • nation26
  • to a people1
WhereMatthew 21:43Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people…
In pl., as in OT, τὰ ἔ. (like Heb. הַגּוֹיִם)the nations, as distinct from Israel, GentilesTagged as
  • of Gentiles10
  • Gentiles —4
WhereMatthew 4:15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan…

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.

The words it stands beside

All 161, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

9 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

  • ἔθνη50
  • ἐθνῶν46
  • ἔθνεσιν31
  • ἔθνος17
  • ἔθνει7
  • ἔθνους7
  • ἔθνεσιν.¶1
  • ἔθνη.¶1
  • ἔθνος.¶1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural46N-GPN
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural32N-DPN
  • noun · accusative (object) · neuter plural25N-APN
  • noun · nominative (subject) · neuter plural24N-NPN
  • noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular12N-ASN
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular7N-DSN
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular7N-GSN
  • noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular6N-NSN
  • noun · vocative (address) · neuter plural2N-VPN

Matthew

fifteen uses
  • “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles—

    Matthew 4:15

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles —
  • For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

    Matthew 6:32

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Do not go onto the road of the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.

    Matthew 10:5

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of the Gentiles
  • On My account, you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

    Matthew 10:18

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • “Here is My Servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will proclaim justice to the nations.

    Matthew 12:18

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • In His name the nations will put their hope.”

    Matthew 12:21

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”

    Matthew 20:19

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

    Matthew 20:25

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

    Matthew 21:43

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: to a people
  • Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

    Matthew 24:7

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: nation
    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Then they will deliver you over to be persecuted and killed, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.

    Matthew 24:9

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.

    Matthew 24:14

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate the people one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.

    Matthew 25:32

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,

    Matthew 28:19

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations

Mark

six uses
  • “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn Him to death and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles,

    Mark 10:33

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

    Mark 10:42

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”

    Mark 11:17

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations’
  • Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, as well as famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.

    Mark 13:8

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: nation
    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.

    Mark 13:10

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations

Luke

thirteen uses
  • a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

    Luke 2:32

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • for he loves our nation and has built our synagogue.”

    Luke 7:5

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

    Luke 12:30

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • He will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and insulted and spit upon.

    Luke 18:32

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Then He told them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

    Luke 21:10

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: nation
    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

    Luke 21:24

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.

    Luke 21:25

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of nations
  • So Jesus declared, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them call themselves benefactors.

    Luke 22:25

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man subverting our nation, forbidding payment of taxes to Caesar, and proclaiming Himself to be Christ, a King.”

    Luke 23:2

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

    Luke 24:47

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations

John

five uses
  • If we let Him go on like this, everyone will believe in Him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”

    John 11:48

    • ἔθνος.¶ethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

    John 11:50

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

    John 11:51

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.

    John 11:52

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

    John 18:35

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: nation

Acts

forty-three uses
  • Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.

    Acts 2:5

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of Your servant, our father David: ‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

    Acts 4:25

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.

    Acts 4:27

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’

    Acts 7:7

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

    Acts 7:45

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Prior to that time, a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and astounded the people of Samaria. He claimed to be someone great,

    Acts 8:9

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: people
  • “Go!” said the Lord. “This man is My chosen instrument to carry My name before the Gentiles and their kings, and before the people of Israel.

    Acts 9:15

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • “Cornelius the centurion has sent us,” they said. “He is a righteous and God-fearing man with a good reputation among the whole Jewish nation. A holy angel instructed him to request your presence in his home so he could hear a message from you.”

    Acts 10:22

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • but welcomes those from every nation who fear Him and do what is right.

    Acts 10:35

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

    Acts 10:45

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God.

    Acts 11:1

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • When they heard this, their objections were put to rest, and they glorified God, saying, “So then, God has granted even the Gentiles repentance unto life.”

    Acts 11:18

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

    Acts 13:19

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.

    Acts 13:46

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • For this is what the Lord has commanded us: ‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, to bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”

    Acts 13:47

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

    Acts 13:48

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

    Acts 14:2

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

    Acts 14:5

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • In past generations, He let all nations go their own way.

    Acts 14:16

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

    Acts 14:27

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, recounting the conversion of the Gentiles and bringing great joy to all the brothers.

    Acts 15:3

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.

    Acts 15:7

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.

    Acts 15:12

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

    Acts 15:14

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these things

    Acts 15:17

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.

    Acts 15:19

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • and sent them with this letter: The apostles and the elders, your brothers, To the brothers among the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings.

    Acts 15:23

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: the Gentiles
  • From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

    Acts 17:26

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • But when they opposed and insulted him, he shook out his garments and told them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent of it. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

    Acts 18:6

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Coming over to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews of Jerusalem will bind the owner of this belt and hand him over to the Gentiles.’”

    Acts 21:11

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • Paul greeted them and recounted one by one the things that God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

    Acts 21:19

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But they are under the impression that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or observe our customs.

    Acts 21:21

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”

    Acts 21:25

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of the Gentiles
  • Then He said to me, ‘Go! I will send you far away to the Gentiles.’”

    Acts 22:21

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • When Paul had been called in, Tertullus opened the prosecution: “Because of you, we have enjoyed a lasting peace, and your foresight has brought improvements to this nation.

    Acts 24:2

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • When the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he began his response: “Knowing that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my defense.

    Acts 24:10

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: to nation
  • After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

    Acts 24:17

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Surely all the Jews know how I have lived from the earliest days of my youth, among my own people and in Jerusalem.

    Acts 26:4

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles. I am sending you to them

    Acts 26:17

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • First to those in Damascus and Jerusalem, then to everyone in the region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, I declared that they should repent and turn to God, performing deeds worthy of their repentance.

    Acts 26:20

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • that the Christ would suffer, and as the first to rise from the dead, would proclaim light to our people and to the Gentiles.”

    Acts 26:23

    • ἔθνεσιν.¶ethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But when the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, even though I have no charge to bring against my nation.

    Acts 28:19

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Be advised, therefore, that God’s salvation has been sent to the Gentiles, and they will listen!”

    Acts 28:28

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

Romans

twenty-eight uses
  • Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.

    Romans 1:5

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.

    Romans 1:13

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law.

    Romans 2:14

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

    Romans 2:24

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too,

    Romans 3:29

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not yet exist.

    Romans 4:17

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”

    Romans 4:18

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?

    Romans 9:24

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;

    Romans 9:30

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

    Romans 10:19

    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a nation
    • ἔθνειethneinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a nation
  • I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

    Romans 11:11

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • But if their trespass means riches for the world, and their failure means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring!

    Romans 11:12

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry

    Romans 11:13

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.

    Romans 11:25

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”

    Romans 15:9

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: the Gentiles
    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Again, it says: “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

    Romans 15:10

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • And again: “Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles, and extol Him, all you peoples.”

    Romans 15:11

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · vocative (address) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • And once more, Isaiah says: “The Root of Jesse will appear, One who will arise to rule over the Gentiles; in Him the Gentiles will put their hope.”

    Romans 15:12

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: over Gentiles
    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

    Romans 15:16

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,

    Romans 15:18

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual blessings, they are obligated to minister to them with material blessings.

    Romans 15:27

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • who have risked their lives for me. Not only I but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

    Romans 16:4

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles —

1 Corinthians

three uses
  • but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles,

    1 Corinthians 1:23

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: to Gentiles
  • It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

    1 Corinthians 5:1

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: pagans
  • You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

    1 Corinthians 12:2

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: pagans

2 Corinthians

one use
  • In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

    2 Corinthians 11:26

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

Galatians

ten uses
  • to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

    Galatians 1:16

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • I went in response to a revelation and set before them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I spoke privately to those recognized as leaders, for fear that I was running or had already run in vain.

    Galatians 2:2

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles —
  • For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.

    Galatians 2:8

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles —
  • And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

    Galatians 2:9

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

    Galatians 2:12

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

    Galatians 2:14

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

    Galatians 2:15

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and foretold the gospel to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.”

    Galatians 3:8

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

    Galatians 3:14

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

Ephesians

five uses
  • Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

    Ephesians 2:11

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for the sake of you Gentiles...

    Ephesians 3:1

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are fellow heirs, fellow members of the body, and fellow partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus.

    Ephesians 3:6

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • Though I am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

    Ephesians 3:8

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

    Ephesians 4:17

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

Colossians

one use
  • To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

    Colossians 1:27

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

1 Thessalonians

two uses
  • hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

    1 Thessalonians 2:16

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

    1 Thessalonians 4:5

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

1 Timothy

two uses
  • For this reason I was appointed as a preacher, an apostle, and a faithful and true teacher of the Gentiles. I am telling the truth; I am not lying about anything.

    1 Timothy 2:7

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: of Gentiles
  • By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

    1 Timothy 3:16

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations

2 Timothy

one use
  • But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

    2 Timothy 4:17

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

1 Peter

three uses
  • But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

    1 Peter 2:9

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: a nation
  • Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us.

    1 Peter 2:12

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

    1 Peter 4:3

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles

Revelation

twenty-three uses
  • And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.

    Revelation 2:26

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

    Revelation 5:9

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.

    Revelation 7:9

    • ἔθνουςethnousnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • And they told me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

    Revelation 10:11

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • But exclude the courtyard outside the temple. Do not measure it, because it has been given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.

    Revelation 11:2

    • ἔθνεσινethnesinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.

    Revelation 11:9

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

    Revelation 11:18

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And she gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was caught up to God and to His throne.

    Revelation 12:5

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

    Revelation 13:7

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Then I saw another angel flying overhead, with the eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth—to every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

    Revelation 14:6

    • ἔθνοςethnosnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: nation
  • Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”

    Revelation 14:8

    • ἔθνη.¶ethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: Gentiles
  • and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

    Revelation 15:3

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.”

    Revelation 15:4

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

    Revelation 16:19

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • Then the angel said to me, “The waters you saw, where the prostitute was seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues.

    Revelation 17:15

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

    Revelation 18:3

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”

    Revelation 18:23

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.

    Revelation 19:15

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And he threw him into the Abyss, shut it, and sealed it over him, so that he could not deceive the nations until the thousand years were complete. After that, he must be released for a brief period of time.

    Revelation 20:3

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.

    Revelation 20:8

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • By its light the nations will walk, and into it the kings of the earth will bring their glory.

    Revelation 21:24

    • ἔθνηethnenoun · nominative (subject) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • And into the city will be brought the glory and honor of the nations.

    Revelation 21:26

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations
  • down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

    Revelation 22:2

    • ἐθνῶνethnonnoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: nations

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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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