STRONGS G1672:
Ἕλλην,
-ηνος,
ὁ;
1. a Greek by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies:
Acts 18:17 Rec.;
Ἕλληνές τε καὶ βάρβαροι,
Romans 1:14.
2. in a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; so that where
Ἕλληνες are opposed to Jews, the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship:
John 7:35 (cf. Meyer at the passage);
Acts 11:20 G L T Tr [cf.
B. D. American edition, p. 967];
Acts 16:1,
3; [
Acts 21:28];
1 Corinthians 1:22,
23 Rec.;
Galatians 2:3 (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 11, 2);
Ἰουδαῖοί τε καὶ Ἕλληνες, and the like:
Acts 14:1;
Acts 18:4;
Acts 19:10,
17;
Acts 20:21;
Romans 1:16;
Romans 2:9,
10;
Romans 3:9;
Romans 10:12;
1 Corinthians 1:24;
1 Corinthians 10:32;
1 Corinthians 12:13;
Galatians 3:28;
Colossians 3:11. The word is used in the same wide sense by the Greek church Fathers, cf.
Otto on Tatian, p. 2; [
Sophocles' Lexicon, under the word]. The
Ἕλληνες spoken of in
John 12:20 and
Acts 17:4 are Jewish proselytes from the Gentiles; see
προσήλυτος, 2. [Cf.
B. D. under the word Greece etc. (especially American edition).]
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