gentile
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Gentile () is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish. Other groups that also claim Israelite heritage, notably Mormons, have historically used the term gentile to describe outsiders. More rarely, the term is used as a synonym for pagan. As a term used to describe non-members of a religious/ethnic group, gentile is sometimes compared to other words used to describe the "outgroup" in other cultures (see List of terms for ethnic out-groups).
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- Instance of
- Jewish ethnonym
- Said to be same as
- goy
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- opposite of
- Jewish people
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- Judaism
- The Hebrew Bible
- Tannaim
- Later sages
- In modern times
- In Kabbalah
- Christianity
- Fathers of the Church
- Terminology in Christian Bibles
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Islam
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Gentile () is a word that today usually means someone who is not Jewish. Other groups that also claim Israelite heritage, notably Mormons, have historically used the term gentile to describe outsiders. More rarely, the term is used as a synonym for pagan. As a term used to describe non-members of a religious/ethnic group, gentile is sometimes compared to other words used to describe the "outgroup" in other cultures (see List of terms for ethnic out-groups).
In some translations of the Quran, gentile is used to translate an Arabic word that refers to non-Jews and/or people not versed in or not able to read scripture.
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