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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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First occurrence: Genesis 10:5

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Lamentations 1:1
HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Lamentations 1:1 · retained source text

¶ How doeth the citie sit solitarie that was full of people? How is she become as a widow? She that was great among the nations, and princesse among the prouinces, how is she become tributarie?

Ezekiel 5:5
¶ Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:5 · retained source text

¶ Thus saith the LORD God; This is Ierusalem: I haue set it in the midst of the nations and countreys that are round about her.

Ezekiel 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:6 · retained source text

And she hath changed my iudgements into wickednesse more then the nations, and my statutes more then the countreyes that are round about her: for they haue refused my iudgements and my statutes, they haue not walked in them.

Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
2 word occurrences in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:7 · retained source text

Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Because yee multiplied more then the nations that are round about you, and haue not walked in my Statutes, neither haue kept my iudgments, neither haue done according to the iudgements of the nations that are round about you:

Ezekiel 5:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:8 · retained source text

Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I, euen I am against thee, and will execute iudgements in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:14 · retained source text

Moreouer I will make thee waste, and a reproch among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that passe by.

Ezekiel 5:15
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the Lord have spoken it.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 5:15 · retained source text

So it shall bee a reproch and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment vnto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute iudgments in thee in anger and in furie, and in furious rebukes: I the LORD haue spoken it.

1611 marginal noteDeut.28.37.

Ezekiel 6:8
¶ Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:8 · retained source text

¶ Yet will I leaue a remnant, that he may haue some, that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shalbe scattered through the countreys.

Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:9 · retained source text

And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations, whither they shalbe caried captiues, because I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: and they shall loathe themselues for the euils which they haue committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 12:15
And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Ezekiel 12:15 · retained source text

And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shal scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countreys.

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