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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Greek

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: Yes
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: Yes
  • Included in BDB: No

Strongs Concordance:

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Greek

Found only in the New Testament, where a distinction is observed between "Greek" and "Grecian" (q.v.). The former is (1) a Greek by race (Acts 16:1-3; 18:17; Romans 1:14), or (2) a Gentile as opposed to a Jew (Romans 2:9, 10). The latter, meaning properly "one who speaks Greek," is a foreign Jew opposed to a home Jew who dwelt in Palestine.

The word "Grecians" in Acts 11:20 should be "Greeks," denoting the heathen Greeks of that city, as rendered in the Revised Version according to the reading of the best manuscripts ("Hellenes").


Naves Topical Index
Greek

Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greek

GREEK, adjective Pertaining to Greece. [See Gray.]

GREEK, noun A native of Greece.

1. The language of Greece.

GREEK-FIRE, a combustible composition, the constituents of which are supposed to be asphalt, with niter and sulphur.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greekish

GREE'KISH, adjective Peculiar to Greece.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greekling

GREE'KLING, noun An inferior Greek writer.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Greekrose

GREE'KROSE, noun The flower campion.