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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Heathen
Thompson Chain Reference
• Heathen
The Topic Concordance
• Gentiles/Heathen
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Heathen, the
Dictionaries
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Heathen
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Heathen
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Heathen
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Heathen
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Heathen
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Heathen
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Heathen (2)
• Heathen
King James Dictionary
• Heathen
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Heathen
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Heathen
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Heathen
Webster Dictionary
• Heathens
• Heathenness
• Heathenizing
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Heathen
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Heathen
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Heathen
• Heathenism
• Marriage, Heathen.
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Heathenism
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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• Heathenism
Lexicons
• ܚܰܢܦ݂ܳܐ
Girdleston's OT Synonyms
• Gentile, Heathen
• ἐθνικός
• ἔθνος
• גּוֹי , גּוֹיִם

The Hebrew word goi is also translated 'Gentiles,' and 'people,' and very often 'nations:' it is used in contrast to Israel irrespective of those designated being civilised or not. All the nations were idolaters, but this is not implied in the word goi, nor in the ἔθνος of the N.T., which is more frequently translated 'nations' and 'Gentiles.' In Matthew 18:17 ἐθνικός has a peculiar application: if an offending brother will not bear the church, the injunction is "let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican," that is, as an outsider, the heathen being outside the privileges of Israel, as one to be avoided: cf. Romans 16:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:6,14 .