There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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Gentile
//ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl//
Synonyms for "gentile" (55 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (11)
Strong matches (17)
Related words (27)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesderived
10 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
5 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
64 translations across 29 languages.
Aghwan
2 entries- 𐕆𐔴𐔸𐔰𐕎𐕒𐕚 adj (non-Jewish)
- 𐕆𐔴𐔸𐔰𐕎𐕒𐕚 adj (heathen, pagan)
Arabic
1 entries- أُمَمِيّ adj (non-Jewish)
Bulgarian
2 entries- друговерски adj (heathen, pagan)
- нееврейски adj (non-Jewish)
Chinese
1 entries- 外邦 adj (non-Jewish)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 外邦 adj (non-Jewish)
- 外邦人 noun (non-Jewish person)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 外邦 adj (non-Jewish)
- 异教徒 adj (heathen, pagan)
- 非犹太人的 adj (non-Jewish)
- 外邦人 noun (non-Jewish person)
Danish
1 entries- hedensk adj (heathen, pagan)
Dutch
3 entries- heidens adj (heathen, pagan)
- niet-Joods adj (non-Jewish)
- goj noun (non-Jewish person)
Esperanto
4 entries- goja adj (non-Jewish)
- nejuda adj (non-Jewish)
- gojo noun (non-Jewish person)
- nejudo noun (non-Jewish person)
Finnish
1 entries- ei-juutalainen adj (non-Jewish)
French
2 entries- gentil adj (non-Jewish)
- gentil noun (non-Jewish person)
Galician
1 entries- xentil adj (non-Jewish)
German
4 entries- Heide adj (non-Jewish)
- Heide adj (heathen, pagan)
- nichtjüdisch adj (non-Jewish)
- Gentile noun (kind of noun)
Greek
1 entries- εθνικός adj (non-Jewish)
Hakka Chinese
1 entries- 外邦 adj (non-Jewish)
Hebrew
1 entries- גוי adj (non-Jewish)
Interlingua
3 entries- gentil adj (non-Jewish)
- pagan adj (heathen, pagan)
- gentil noun (non-Jewish person)
Italian
1 entries- gentile adj (non-Jewish)
Latin
1 entries- gens noun (non-Jewish person)
Māori
1 entries- tauiwi noun (non-Jewish person)
Polish
3 entries- plemienny adj (relating to a clan, tribe, or nation)
- pogański adj (heathen, pagan)
- goj noun (non-Jewish person)
Portuguese
2 entries- gentio adj (non-Jewish)
- gentio adj (heathen, pagan)
Romanian
1 entries- păgân adj (heathen, pagan)
Russian
4 entries- гой adj (non-Jewish)
- неевре́й adj (non-Jewish)
- язы́чник adj (heathen, pagan)
- гой noun (non-Jewish person)
Spanish
3 entries- gentil adj (non-Jewish)
- pagano adj (heathen, pagan)
- gentil noun (non-Jewish person)
Swedish
1 entries- hednisk adj (non-Jewish)
Tagalog
1 entries- hentil adj (non-Jewish)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гой noun (non-Jewish person)
Yiddish
4 entries- אומות־העולמדיק adj (non-Jewish)
- גוייִש adj (non-Jewish)
- געצן־דינעריש adj (heathen, pagan)
- נישט־ייִדיש adj (non-Jewish)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
A gentile gave Esther's family a place to hide during the Nazi occupation of Budapest.
Source: tatoeba (8610733)
The word "gentile" is derived from a Latin translation of the Hebrew word "goy."
Source: tatoeba (10066917)
"Goy" is not a pejorative term, but is simply the Hebrew equivalent of "gentile."
Source: tatoeba (10322420)
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