The Definition of the word Gentiles

Gentiles

(Heb., usually in plural, goyim), meaning in general all nations "except the Jews. In course of time, as the Jews began more and" "more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges, it" "acquired unpleasant associations, and was used as a term of" contempt. "In the New Testament the Greek word Hellenes, meaning literally "Greek (as in Acts 16:1, 3; 18:17; Rom. 1:14), generally denotes" any non-Jewish nation.