Ἕλλην=Ἕλλην Hellēn

Greek word for “Greek, Gentile” · Strong’s G1672 · used 25 times in 24 verses

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Meaning

Ἕλλην, -ηνος, ὁ; a Greek;

How it is translated

Glosses given for Hellēn in context, with how often each is used:

• greeks 15
• greek 9
• greeks? 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Acts 16 (2), Acts 19 (2), Romans 1 (2), Romans 2 (2), 1 Corinthians 1 (2), John 7 (1), John 12 (1), Acts 14 (1), Acts 17 (1), Acts 18 (1)

Forms

• Ἕλληνας 5
• Ἕλλην 4
• Ἕλλησιν 4
• Ἑλλήνων 3
• Ἕλληνος 3
• Ἕλληνι 2
• Ἕλληνες 2
• Ἕλληνές 1
• Ἕλλησίν 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with Hellēn more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• Ἰουδαῖος Ioudaios “Jew” 19
• τε te “and/both” 14
• ἐλεύθερος eleutheros “free/freedom” 3
• πρῶτος prōtos “first” 4
• ἔνι eni “there is” 2
• βάρβαρος barbaros “barbarian” 2
• δοῦλος doulos “slave” 3
• περιτέμνω peritemnō “to circumcise” 2
• πλῆθος plēthos “multitude” 2
• κατοικέω katoikeō “to dwell” 2
• σοφία sophia “wisdom” 2
• πείθω peithō “to persuade” 2

Key verses

The verses using Hellēn that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Acts 14:1 — And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also of…
• Acts 16:1 — Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but…
• Acts 17:4 — And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.
• Acts 20:21 — Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Romans 1:14 — I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
• Romans 1:16 — For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
• Romans 2:9 — Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile;
• Romans 2:10 — But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
• Romans 10:12 — For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
• 1 Corinthians 12:13 — For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one…
• Galatians 3:28 — There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
• Colossians 3:11 — Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.