Leviticus 25:44
Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.
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Heathen
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Galatians 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
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46 occurrences in 44 verses.
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Leviticus
44 verses
Deuteronomy
11 verses
2 Samuel
22 verses
2 Kings
55 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
55 verses
Ezra
11 verses
Nehemiah
55 verses
Psalms
3837 verses
Isaiah
11 verses
Jeremiah
76 verses
Lamentations
44 verses
Ezekiel
4644 verses
Joel
54 verses
Amos
11 verses
Obadiah
44 verses
Micah
11 verses
Habakkuk
22 verses
Zephaniah
11 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Zechariah
55 verses
Malachi
22 verses
Matthew
22 verses
Acts
11 verses
2 Corinthians
11 verses
Galatians
33 verses
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גּוֹי
gôwy · go'-ee
143 times translated as this KJV form558 total Strong's occurrences
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Strong's KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 25:44Strong's last: Malachi 1:14
Open full H1471 profile →ἔθνος
éthnos · eth'-nos
5 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)
Strong's KJV usage: :--Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 4:25Strong's last: Galatians 3:8
Open full G1484 profile →ἐθνικός
ethnikós · eth-nee-kos'
2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
national ("ethnic"), i.e. (specially) a Gentile
Strong's KJV usage: :--heathen (man).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 6:7Strong's last: Matthew 18:17
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And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
H1471
Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
H1471
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
H1471
Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.
H1471
And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.
English meaning and historical usage.
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heathen
HE'ATHEN, noun [Gr. from heath, that is, one who lives in the country or woods, as pagan from pagus, a village.]
1. A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God. In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry. The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans.
Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations.
Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Psalms 2:8.
Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals.
If men have reason to be heathens in Japan--
The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens.
2. A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.
HE'ATHEN, adjective Gentile, pagan; as a heathen author.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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