Greek
Morrish Bible Dictionary [1]
Ἓλλην. A native of Greece. For their origin, and reference to them in the O.T., see Grecia and Grecians In the N.T. we read that some came to Jerusalem to worship and desired to see Jesus; but He was then just about to be offered up. John 12:20-24 . The Greeks were an intellectual people and naturally sought after wisdom; and Christ crucified was unto them foolishness. How could they naturally think of having faith in a man crucified with malefactors? But to the called ones Christ became the power and wisdom of God. 1 Corinthians 1:22-24 . In Paul's evangelising among them 'great multitudes ' believed, and lost their proud nationality in Christ. Acts 14:1; Acts 17:4; Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11 .
Easton's Bible Dictionary [2]
Acts 16:1-3 18:17 Romans 1:14 Romans 2:9,10
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").
King James Dictionary [3]
Greek a. Pertaining to Greece. See Gray.
GREEK, n. 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.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
a term not found in the A.V. of the O.T., where either Javan is retained, or, as in Joel 3:6, the word is rendered by Grecian. In Maccabees Greek and Grecians seem to be used indifferently (comp. 1 Maccabees 1:10; 1 Maccabees 6:2; also 2 Maccabees 4:10, Greekish). In the N.T., on the other hand, a distinction is observed, ῞Ελλην being rendered "Greek," and ῾Ελληνιστής ,"Grecian." The difference of the English terminations, however, is not sufficient to convey the differsence of meanings. (See Overkamp, De Distinctione Inter Judaeos Et Graecos, Et Inter Graec. Et barbaros, Gryph. 1782; Amnell, Hellas, N.T. illustrata, Upsal. 1752.) ῞Ελλην , in the N.T. is either a Greek by race, as in Acts 16:1-3; Acts 18:17; Romans 1:14; or more frequently a Gentile, as opposed to a Jew ( Romans 2:9-10, etc.); so fem. ῾Ελληνίς Mark 7:26; Acts 17:12. ῾Ελληνιστής (properly "one who speaks Greek") is a foreign Jew; opposed, therefore, not to Ι᾿Ουδαῖος , but to ῾Εβραῖος , a home-Jew, one who dwelt in Palestine. So Schleusner, etc.: according to Salmasius, however, the Hellenists were Greek proselytes, who had become Christians; so Wolf, Parkhurst, etc., arguing from Acts 11:20, where ῾Ελληνισταί are contrasted with Ι᾿Ουδαῖοι in 19. The question resolves itself partly into a textual one, Griesbach having adopted the reading ῞Ελληνας , and so also Lachmann, Tischendorf, and others. (See Hellenist).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [5]
hat section of the Church which formerly separated from the Roman or Western in 1054, which assumed an independent existence on account of the arrogant claims of the latter, and which acknowledges the authority of only the first seven general councils; they dissent from the Filioque Doctrine ( q. v .), administer the Eucharist in both kinds to the laity, and are zealously conservative of the orthodoxy of the Church.
