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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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Ezekiel 36:13
Thus saith the Lord God; Because they say unto you, Thou land devourest up men, and hast bereaved thy nations;
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:13 · retained source text

Thus saith the LORD God, Because they say vnto you, Thou land deuourest vp men, and hast bereaued thy nations,

Ezekiel 36:14
Therefore thou shalt devour men no more, neither bereave thy nations any more, saith the Lord God.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:14 · retained source text

Therefore thou shalt deuoure men no more, neither bereaue thy nations any more, saith the LORD God.

1611 marginal noteOr, cause to fall.

Ezekiel 36:15
Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 36:15 · retained source text

Neither will I cause men to heare in thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou beare the reproch of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause the nations to fall any more, saith the LORD God.

Ezekiel 37:22
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 37:22 · retained source text

And I will make them one nation in the land vpon the mountaines of Israel, and one King shall be king to them all: and they shalbe no more two nations, neither shall they bee diuided into two kingdomes any more at all.

1611 marginal noteIohn 10.16.

Ezekiel 38:8
¶ After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 38:8 · retained source text

¶ After many daies thou shalt be visited: in the latter yeeres thou shalt come into the land, that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people against the mountaines of Israel, which haue beene alwayes waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.

Ezekiel 38:12
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 38:12 · retained source text

To take a spoile, and to take a praye, to turne thine hand vpon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and vpon the people that are gathered out of the nations which haue gotten cattel and goods, that dwell in the middest of the land.

1611 marginal noteHeb. to spoile the spoile, and to praye the praye.

1611 marginal noteHeb. nauell.

Ezekiel 38:23
Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 38:23 · retained source text

Thus will I magnifie my selfe, and sanctifie my selfe, and I will be knowen in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD.

1611 marginal noteChap.36.23. and 37.28.

Ezekiel 39:27
When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 39:27 · retained source text

When I haue brought them againe from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;

1611 marginal noteChap. 36.23.

Daniel 3:4
Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages,
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1611 witness · Daniel 3:4 · retained source text

Then an herauld cryed aloud, To you it is commaunded, O people, nations, and languages,

1611 marginal noteCald. with might.

1611 marginal noteCald. they command.

Daniel 3:7
Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
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1611 witness · Daniel 3:7 · retained source text

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harpe, sackbut, psalterie, and all kindes of musicke, all the people, the nations, and the languages fell downe and worshipped the golden image, that Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp.

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