Lexical Summary Hellēnistēs: a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew) Original Word: ἙλληνιστήςTransliteration: Hellēnistēs Phonetic Spelling: (hel-lay-nis-tace') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew) Meaning: Hellenistic -- a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew) Strong's Concordance Grecian. From a derivative of Hellen; a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew -- Grecian. see GREEK Hellen Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1675: ἙλληνιστήςἙλληνιστής, ἑλληνιστου, ὁ (from ἑλληνίζω to copy the manners and worship of the Greeks or to use the Greek language (Winers Grammar, 94 (89f), cf. 28)), a Hellenist, i. e. one who imitates the manners and customs or the worship of the Greeks, and uses the Greek tongue; employed in the N. T. of Jews born in foreign lands and speaking Greek (Grecian Jews): Acts 11:20 R (WH; see in Ἕλλην, 2); Acts 9:29; the name adhered to them even after they had embraced Christianity, Acts 6:1, where it is opposed to οἱ Ἑβραῖοί, which see Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Hellenisten; Reuss in Herzog see p. 701ff; (BB. DD., under the word |
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