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Encyclopedia Britannica



GENTILE

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 602 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GAG-GEO
GENTILE , in the
English
  Bible, the
term
  generally applied to those who were not of the Jewish race. It is an adaptation of the Lat. gentilis, of or belonging to the same gens, the clan or family; as defined in
Paulus
  ex Festo " gentilis dicitur et ex eodem genere ortus et is qui simili nomine; ut ait Cincius, gentiles mihi sunt, qui meo nomine appellantur." In
post
 -Augustan Latin gentilis became wider in meaning, following the usage of gens, in the sense of race, nation, and meant "
national
 ," belonging to the same race. Later still the word came to mean "
foreign
 ," i.e. other than
Roman
 , and was so used in the
Vulgate
 , with genies, to translate the Hebrew goyyim, nations, LXX. fOvi, the non-Israelitish peoples (see further
JEws
 ).


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