Gentiles

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gentiles
     (Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations
     except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and
     more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it
     acquired unpleasant associations, and was used as a term of
     contempt.


     
       In the New Testament the Greek word Hellenes, meaning
     literally Greek (as in Acts 16:1, 3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14),
     generally denotes any non-Jewish nation.