Ἑλληνιστής
τῷ οὖν τόξῳ ὄνομα βίος, ἔργον δὲ θάνατος → the bow is called life, but its work is death (Heraclitus)
English (LSJ)
οῦ, ὁ,
A one who uses the Greek language: a Greek Jew, Act.Ap.6.1, etc. II gentile, heathen, Jul.Ep.84a.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Ἑλληνιστής: -οῦ, ὁ, ὁ χρώμενος τῇ Ἑλληνικῇ γλώσσῃ, ὅ ἐ. ἐν τῇ Κ. Δ. Ἰουδαῖος τὴν Ἑλληνικὴν ὁμιλῶν, Πράξεις Ἀποστ. ϛ΄, 1, κτλ. ΙΙ. παρὰ μεταγεν. Ἐκκλ. ἐνίοτε, ὡς τὸ Ἕλλην Ι. 4, ἐθνικός.
English (Strong)
from a derivative of Ἕλλην; a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew: Grecian.
English (Thayer)
ἑλληνιστου, ὁ (from ἑλληνίζω to copy the manners and worship of the Greeks or to use the Greek language (Winer s Grammar, 94 (89f), cf. 28)), a Hellenist, i. e. one who imitates the manners and customs or the worship of the Greeks, and uses the Greek tongue; employed in the N. T. of Jews born in foreign lands and speaking Greek (Grecian Jews): R (WH; see in Ἕλλην, 2); οἱ Ἑβραῖοί, which see Cf. Winer s RWB, under the word Hellenisten; Reuss in Herzog see p. 701ff; (BB. DD., under the word <TOPIC:Hellenist>; Farrar, St. Paul, chapter vii.; Wetstein (1752) on Acts 6:1).
