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Ἕλλην

Héllēn · G1672 · Greek · 26 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. civilized, Greek

    A person who participates in Greek culture and in so doing would speak the Greek language, but not necessarily a person of Greek ethnic background

    Examples

    Romans 1:14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to the uncultured, both to the wise and to the foolish.

    1 Corinthians 1:22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom;

    1 Corinthians 1:24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

  2. Gentile, non-Jew, Greek

    (An extended meaning of Ἕλλην ‘Greek,’) A person who is a Gentile in view of being a Greek

    Examples

    John 7:35 The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this Man intend to go that we will not find Him? He does not intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, does He?

    John 12:20 Now there were some Greeks among those who were going up to worship at the feast;

    Acts 14:1 In Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a way that a large number of people believed, both of Jews and of Greeks.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

6 occurrences in 6 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

4 occurrences in 3 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Gentile, non-Jew, Greek11.40
Used in John 7:35, where the Jews wonder among themselves whether Jesus intends to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach them, using the term broadly for Gentiles rather than narrowly for ethnic Greeks.
Civilized, Greek11.90
Used in Acts 11:20, of men of Cyprus and Cyrene who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, proclaiming the good news of the Lord Jesus, using the term for those of Hellenistic culture and language.
Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Ἑλλάς Hellás · G1671 · Hellas, a country of Europe · 1×ἝλληνHéllēn · G1672Ἑλληνίς Hellēnís · G1674 · non-Jew · 2×Ἑλληνιστής Hellēnistḗs · G1675 · a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew · 2×Ἑλληνιστί Hellēnistí · G1676 · in the Greek language, in Greek · 2×Ἑλληνικός Hellēnikós · G1673 · Hellenic, i.e. Grecian · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Ἕλληνος, ὁ; 1. a Greek by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek…
Ἕλληνος, ὁ;
1. a Greek by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies: Acts 18:17 Rec.; Ἕλληνες τέ καί βάρβαροι, Rom 1:14.
2. in a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; so that where Ἕλληνες are opposed to Jews, the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship: Jn 7:35 (cf. Meyer at the passage); Acts 11:20 G L T Tr (cf. B. D. American edition, p. 967); Acts 16:1, Acts 16:3; (Acts 21:28); 1 Cor 1:22, 1 Cor 1:23 Rec.; Gal 2:3 (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 11, 2); Ἰουδαῖοι τέ καί Ἕλληνες, and the like: Acts 14:1; Acts 18:4; Acts 19:10, Acts 19:17; Acts 20:21; Rom 1:16; Rom 2:9, Rom 2:10; Rom 3:9; Rom 10:12; 1 Cor 1:24; 1 Cor 10:32; 1 Cor 12:13; Gal 3:28; Col 3:11. The word is used in the same wide sense by the Greek church Fathers, cf. Otto on Tatian, p. 2; (Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word). The Ἕλληνες spoken of in Jn 12:20 and Acts 17:4 are Jewish proselytes from the Gentiles; see προσήλυτος, 2. (Cf. B. D. under the word etc. (especially American edition).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Socio-Religious24 occurrencesEthnic-Cultural3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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