Words the Bible translates as nation
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 7 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- laosλαόςa people: a body of people bound together as one, set apart from those around them
- amעַםa people: a body of persons bound together as one community by shared descent, land, and loyalty
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- kinsman, blood relative: the members of one's own family or clan
- ethnosἔθνοςa people group bound together as a body: a nation; in the plural and from a Jewish vantage point, the other nations, that is, the Gentiles
- goyגּוֹיa nation: a people group seen as a political and territorial body, with its own land, government, and identity
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- the nations: the peoples other than Israel, the gentiles, often pictured as hostile to God and his people
- Goyim: used as a proper name, a place or political grouping called "Nations," not the common word for a people
- genosγένοςa group that belongs together by common origin: offspring, a people, or a kind of thing
- le'omלְאֹםa people or nation: a distinct body of people forming one ethnic or political group; a lofty, poetic word, most often used in the plural ("peoples")
- amעַםa people or nation: a body of persons bound together as one community, whether the peoples of the empire or the people of God
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