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Strong's #1482 - ἐθνικός
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- adapted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people, national
- suited to the manners or language of foreigners, strange, foreign
- in the NT savouring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish
- of the pagan, the Gentile
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ἐθν-ικός, ή, όν,
I national, συστάσεις Plb. 30.13.6; διαστάσεις Id. 4.21.2; χρεῖαι D.S. 18.13; ἰδιότητες Phld. Rh. 1.154 S.; διαφοραί Str. 2.3.1.
II foreign, gentile, Matthew 5:47; ἐθνικῇ.. ἐν σοφία Epigr.Gr. 430.6. Adv. - κῶς, opp. []ιουδαϊκῶς, Galatians 2:14. in the Roman Empire, provincial, Cod. Just. 12.63.2.6.
III Gramm.,
1. indicating nationality, Str. 14.2.28, D.T. 636.11, A.D. Synt. 190.20. Adv. - κῶς, παραχθέν ib. 5, cf. Str. 4.1.1, D.L. 7.56.
2. dialectal, ἔθος A.D. Synt. 46.1. ἐθνικός, ὁ, tax-collector, POxy. 126.13 (vi A.D.).
ἐθνικός, ἐθνικη, ἐθνικον (ethnos);
1. adapted to the genius or customs of a people, peculiar to a people, national: Polybius, Diodorus, others.
2. suited to the manners or language of foreigners, strange, foreign; so in the grammarians (cf. our 'gentile'].
3. in the N. T. savoring of the nature of pagans, alien to the worship of the true God, heathenish; substantively, ὁ ἐθνικός, the pagan, the Gentile: Matthew 18:17; plural, Matthew 5:47 G L T Tr WH;
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**† ἐθνικός , -ή , -όν
(< έθνος ),
[in Al.: Leviticus 21:7*;]
1. national (Polyb.).
2. foreign (gramm.); in NT, as subst., ὁ ἐ ., the Gentile (the adj. "describes character rather than mere position"; cf. ἔθνος , and v. Cremer, 228): Matthew 5:47; Matthew 6:7; Matthew 18:17, 3 John 1:7.†
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In the late P Oxy I. 126.13 (A.D. 572) ἐθνικός is used of a ";collector"; of taxes, a sense not found elsewhere. In MGr the adj. means ";national.";
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