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UK
/dʒˈɛntaɪl/
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[ US /ˈdʒɛnˌtaɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛnˌtaɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
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a Christian
Christians refer to themselves as gentiles - a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
- a person who does not acknowledge your god
- a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus
ADJECTIVE
- belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples
How To Use gentile In A Sentence
- The church that holds the undisputable proof as the first authentical apostolic establishment with founder the apostle of the Gentiles himself. Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker
- In his weekly post, Williamson wrote that "the killing of Jesus was truly 'deicide' " and that "only the Jews leaders and people were the prime agents of the deicide because it is obvious from the gospels that the gentile most involved, Pontius Pilate, … would never have condemned Jesus to death had not the Jewish leaders roused the Jewish people to clamour for his crucifixion. Bishop's blog raises tensions between Jews and the Vatican
- By the way, did you know that there really was a wall in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem that divided Jews from Gentiles?
- Jewish and Gentile people did not eat with one another in the first century.
- The New Covenant permits Gentile Christians to be included in the covenant with Abraham.
- On the right hand of the Judge are -- not the Jews confronting the Gentiles on the left -- nor exactly the well-conducted and well-balanced people who get there in Greek allegories -- but a group of men and women who realize where they are with a gasp of surprise. The Jesus of History
- Matthew, in annexing this cure to that of the leper, who was a Jew, intimates this; the leprous Jews Christ touched and cured, for he preached personally to them; but the paralytic Gentiles he cured at a distance; for to them he did not go in person, but sent his word and healed them; yet in them he was more magnified. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
- In The Victim, the Jewish son of an anti-gentile and ghetto-mentality storekeeper is being given a hard time by an insecure and alcoholic WASP. The Great Assimilator
- 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.