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nations

Meaning of “nations”

Sense 1: Distinct peoples or political communities. Sense 2: The Gentile peoples as distinguished from Israel.

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336 occurrences321 verses40 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Genesis 10:5

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Luke 12:30
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
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1611 witness · Luke 12:30 · retained source text

For all these things doe the nations of the world seeke after: and your father knoweth that yee haue neede of these things.

Luke 21:24
And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall bee led away captiue into all nations, and Hierusalem shall be troden downe of the Gentiles, vntill the times of the Gentiles bee fulfilled.

Luke 21:25
¶ And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
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1611 witness · Luke 21:25 · retained source text

¶ And there shalbe signes in the Sunne, and in the Moone, and in the Starres, and vpon the earth distresse of nations, with perplexity, the Sea and the waues roaring,

1611 marginal noteMatth. 24.29.

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