What Is Gentile in the Bible?
Person
That is what the Jews called people who were not Jews. Paul brought the Gospel to the Gentiles.
A detail
- Careful: “Gentile” is not the same as “gentle.” In the Bible it means not Jewish.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 10:45; Romans 11:13
What the Bible says
Acts 10:45
And the faithful of the circumcision, who came with Peter, were astonished, for that the grace of the Holy Ghost was poured out upon the Gentiles also.
Romans 11:13
For I say to you, Gentiles: as long indeed as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I will honour my ministry,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “gentil”; Acts 10:45