Senses
1. Greek, Hellene — A person of Greek/Hellenic identity or culture, used broadly in the NT to denote non-Jews (Gentiles) in contrast to Ioudaioi. All 25 occurrences across the four auto-clusters share identical semantic content: the only variation is grammatical number and case (singular Hellen in Gal 2:3, 3:28, Col 3:11, Acts 16:1,3; plural Hellenes/Hellesin in Acts 14:1, 17:4, 18:4, 19:10,17, 20:21, 21:28; Rom 1:14,16, 2:9-10, 3:9, 10:12; 1 Cor 1:22,24, 10:32, 12:13; John 7:35, 12:20). Cross-linguistically uniform: Arabic yunaniyin, German Grieche, French Grec, Hebrew yevanim/yevani, Hindi yunaniyom, Korean hellain, Spanish griego/griegos. The English glosses 'Greek' vs 'Hellenes' are mere transliteration choices, not different senses. No polysemy is present. 25×
AR["اليونانِيِّ","اليونانِيّونَ","الْيُونَانِيِّينَ","لِليونانِيّينَ","لِلْيُونانِيِّ","يونانيٌ","يونانيّينَ","يونانِيٌّ","يونانِيٍّ","يونانِيِّينَ","يونانِيّينَ","يُونَانِيُّونَ","يُونَانِيِّينَ"]·ben["গ্রীক","গ্রীক,","গ্রীক;","গ্রীক।","গ্রীকদের","গ্রীকদের,","গ্রীকরা","গ্রীকের।","গ্রীকেরা"]·DE["Grieche"]·EN["Greek","Greeks","Hellēnes","of-Hellenes","to-Greek","to-Greeks","to-Hellēnes"]·FR["Grec"]·heb["הַיְּוָנִים","יְוָנִי","יְוָנִים","יָוָנִי","לִ-יְוָנִים","לַיְּוָנִים"]·HI["युननि","युननि;","यूनानियों","यूनानियों-को","यूनानियों-ने","यूनानियों-में","यूनानी","यूनानी-को"]·ID["bagi-orang-Yunani","orang Yunani","orang-Yunani","orang-Yunani,","orang-Yunani."]·IT["Greco","ellenes","ellēn"]·jav["Yunani","dhateng-tiyang-Yunani,","tiyang-Yunani","tiyang-Yunani,","tiyang-Yunani.","tiyang-Yunani;"]·KO["그리스인들이","헬라인","헬라인;","헬라인들","헬라인들도","헬라인들에게","헬라인들에게도","헬라인들은","헬라인들을","헬라인들의","헬라인에게","헬라인의","헬라인이다"]·PT["Gregos","Gregos.","a-Gregos,","a-grego","a-gregos,","de-gregos,","grego","grego,","gregos","gregos,"]·RU["Грек","Грека","Греков","Еллин","Еллины","Эллинам,","Эллинам.","Эллинов","Эллину","Эллины,","Эллины.","эллин","эллина","эллинам","эллины"]·ES["Griego","Griegos","Héllēn","Héllēnes","Héllēnos","Héllēnōn","a-griego","a-griegos","griego","griegos"]·SW["Mgiriki","Wagiriki","Wagiriki,","kwa-Myunani."]·TR["Grek","Grekler","Greklere","Helen","Helen'di","Helenler","Helenlerden","Helenlere","Helenleri","Yunan'a","Yunan'a.","Yunanları"]·urd["یونانی","یونانی-کو","یونانیوں","یونانیوں-نے","یونانیوں-کو"]
John 7:35, John 7:35, John 12:20, Acts 14:1, Acts 16:1, Acts 16:3, Acts 17:4, Acts 18:4, Acts 19:10, Acts 19:17, Acts 20:21, Acts 21:28 (+13 more)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
1. Hellen , son of Deucalion, 8th/7th c.BC 2. the Ἕλληνες of 8th/7th c.BC are the Thessalian tribe of which Hellen was the reputed chief (compare Ἑλλάς 1), 8th/7th c.BC 3. later, Ἕλληνες was the regularly name for Greeks , opposite to βάρβαροι, Refs 5th c.BC, etc. 4. later still, of Gentiles , Opp. to Jews, Refs 1st c.AD 5. as adjective = Ἑλληνικός, Refs 5th c.BC, etc.:—;even with a fem. Substantive, 6th/5th c.BC, Refs 5th c.BC (Middle Liddel)