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
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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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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Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
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Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
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Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.
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The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.
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The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
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Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.
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The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
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God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.
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Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah.
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But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.
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He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
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<<A Psalm of Asaph.>> O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
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Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
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Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
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Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
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He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
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Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.
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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