gentile
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7.7
- noun
- /ˈdʒɛnˌtaɪl/
:
no judío
- And speaking to the Ephesians, who were of course a mixture of Jews and gentiles, Paul reminds us that God's gift to the church... is its variety.
- Gentile and Jew
I I think gentiles call it sparkling water, we call it seltzer.
- I I think gentiles call it sparkling water, we call it seltzer.
- And he wrote this book to speak about the glory of his people so that Gentiles would get the point.
- So the practical purposes, the Christians and the new Jews and people outside the fold are the Gentiles because in the old days Gentiles were non Jews.
- He's changed the name of Paul and he goes and he talks, goes and and and spreads the gospel to the Gentiles.
- I think a lot of Gentiles in the ancient world found the Hebrew Bible a very strange text.
- And my great Aunt Faggy was my grandmother's sister and she survived the Holocaust in hiding in Budapest as a gentile.
- Gentiles keep being Gentiles, Amen, and they keep moving forward.
Examples
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I will put my spirit upon him and he will proclaim justice to the gentiles.
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To my shame, the majority of my old customers, Jew and Gentile alike, stayed away.
Fiction book (1991) -
In high school, Jewish friends were sometimes not allowed to date a gentile.
Academic text (2014) -
God wants me to tell the Gentile, Barnabas.
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"I was disowned by them all two years ago when I married Luke, who is a Gentile."
Fiction book (1991) -
I think a lot of Gentiles in the ancient world found the Hebrew Bible a very strange text.
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Through the Cross, Jews and gentiles have become one united humanity.
Academic text (2018) -
Similarly, Jew and Gentile coming together in harmony while remaining distinct is the goal of Paul's mission.
Academic text (2000) -
Paul is very definitive that the Decalogue cannot be imposed on the gentiles.
Academic text (2018) -
In ancient times, many Gentiles were curious about Jewish customs and beliefs.
Synonyms
6
9.3
A person who is not Jewish, often a Christian
5
9.9
People who are not Jewish, often used as an insult
A person who is not Jewish
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gentile comes from the Latin gentilis, from gens meaning 'clan' or 'people', the same root as generation and gene. In early Christian texts it was used for people who were 'not Jewish', so today gentile often means someone outside the Jewish community.