ethnos

What it means

A people or nation, and in the plural "the nations," meaning the non-Jewish peoples, the Gentiles. In Luke, Simeon says the child is "a light to the Gentiles" (2:32), and Jesus says Jerusalem will be trampled until "the times of the Gentiles" are fulfilled (21:24), and that repentance will be preached "to all the nations" (24:47).

Range of meaning

• NationA people.
• GentileA non-Jew.

In Luke

• Chapter 21

  "The times of the Gentiles" (21:24).