OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 10708

gentile

/ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gentil
Non-Jewish.
Down in the workshop all the elves were makin' toys For the good gentile girls and the good gentile boys
If we read the Epistles of St. Paul, we shall soon discover what efforts the Jewish converts made to bring the Gentile converts into the observance of every Jewish custom compatibl…
pagano
Heathen, pagan.
[John] Bale, following Annius [Annio da Viterbo], argued that druids, bards and other ‘gentile’ (pagan) priests had preserved from Noah’s time the memory of a true religion that be…
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📚 noun • entry_id 10709

gentile

/ˈd͡ʒɛntaɪl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gentil
A non-Jewish person.
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my seruant to raise vp the tribes of Iacob, and to restore the preserued of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light to the…
If a Jew cheated a Gentile one sixth in the purchase or in the sale of any commodity, the Gentile was without remedy; not so if a Gentile imposed on a Jew to the same amount. Theft…
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