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Strong's #1672 - Ἕλλην
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- a Greek either by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies
- in a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship
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Ἕλλην, 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, Romans 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: John 7:35 (cf. Meyer at the passage); Acts 11:20 G L T Tr (cf. B. D. American edition, p. 967); Acts 16:1, 3; (Acts 21:28); 1 Corinthians 1:22, 23 Rec.; Galatians 2:3 (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 11, 2); Ἰουδαῖοι τέ καί Ἕλληνες, and the like: Acts 14:1; Acts 18:4; Acts 19:10, 17; Acts 20:21; Romans 1:16; Romans 2:9, 10; Romans 3:9; Romans 10:12; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 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 John 12:20 and Acts 17:4 are Jewish proselytes from the Gentiles; see προσήλυτος, 2. (Cf. B. D. under the word
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Ἕλλην , -ηνος , ὁ ,
[in LXX: Joel 3:6, Zechariah 9:13 (H3120), etc.; 1 Maccabees 1:19, al. *;]
a Greek; opp. to βάρβαρος , Romans 1:14; usually in ΝΤ of Greek Gentiles, opp. to Ἰουδαῖοι : John 7:35, Acts 11:29; Acts 14:1; Acts 16:1; Acts 16:3; Acts 18:4; Acts 19:19; Acts 19:17; Acts 20:21; Acts 21:28 Romans 1:16; Romans 2:9-10; Romans 3:9; Romans 10:12, 1 Corinthians 1:22; 1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 10:32; 1 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 2:3; Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11; of proselytes, John 12:29, Acts 17:4.†
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In the ordinance of Euergetes II. P Tebt I. 5.168 (B.C. 118) Ἕλληνας = ";probably. . .all non-Egyptian soldiers, whether Macedonians, Cretans, Persians, etc."; The editors compare the opposition between Greeks and Egyptians later in the same decree. This illustrates excellently the familiar antithesis between Jews and ";Greeks,"; so pronounced in Mark 7:26, to which an exact parallel is quoted below.
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