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Ἕλλην Hellen (G1672) is a Greek either by nationality, whether a native of the main land or of the Greek islands or colonies (cf. Isaiah 49:1). In a wider sense the name embraces all nations not Jews that made the language, customs, and learning of the Greeks their own; the primary reference is to a difference of religion and worship (i.e. Hellenistic Jews).

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