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Gentiles
"Gentiles" in a Sentence (8 examples)
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last!
The difference between Gentiles and Jews was erased through Jesus Christ.
When Hollywood was built, few gentiles wanted to work in such a disreputable field.
A positive term for gentiles in Yiddish is "layt" or "laytn", which has the connotation of respectable, civilized adults.
"Laytn" for gentiles is chiefly used in the phrase "bay laytn", meaning "among gentiles" in a positive sense.
Another respectful Yiddish term for gentiles, collectively, is "umes ho'oylem", meaning "nations of the world" in Hebrew.
Pejorative terms for gentiles in Yiddish include akum (star worshiper) and orl (uncircumcised).
"Sheygets" and "shiksa" refer to young male and female gentiles, respectively, and can be positive or negative depending on the context.
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