ἔθνος: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἔθνους, τό:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[multitude]] ([[whether]] of men or of beasts) associated or [[living]] [[together]]; a [[company]], [[troop]], [[swarm]]: [[ἔθνος]] ἑταίρων, [[ἔθνος]] Ἀχαιων, [[ἔθνος]] λαῶν, [[Homer]], Iliad; [[ἔθνος]] μελισσαων, 2,87; μυιαων ἐθνεα, ibid. 469.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> "a [[multitude]] of individuals of the [[same]] [[nature]] or [[genus]] (τό [[ἔθνος]] τό θῆλυ ἤ ἀρρεν, [[Xenophon]], oec. 7,26): [[πᾶν]] [[ἔθνος]] ἀνθρώπων, the [[human]] [[race]], [[race]], [[nation]]: [[ἔθνος]] [[ἐπί]] [[ἔθνος]], οἱ ἄρχοντες, οἱ βασιλεῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν, τά ἔθνη, [[like]] הַגויִם in the O. T., [[foreign]] nations [[not]] worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles, (cf. Trench, § xcviii.): [[Γαλιλαία]] τῶν ἐθνῶν), R G; cf. G L T Tr WH marginal [[reading]] [[after]] G L T Tr WH): ὁ [[λαός]] ([[τοῦ]] Θεοῦ, Jews) καί τά ἔθνη, τά ἔθνη [[even]] of Gentile Christians: οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, i. e. Jewish Christians), Winer's Grammar, § 59,4a.; Buttmann, 130 (114)).