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•  The English word "gentile" etymology:

  • Late Middle English: from Latin gentilis ‘of a family or nation, of the same clan’ (used in the Vulgate to refer to non-Jews), from gens, gent- ‘family, race’, from the root of gignere ‘beget'. 

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• The root word of the Latin "gentilis" is "gens, gent," and it gives more understanding of the original word before its application in the Latin Vulgate for non-Jews.

1. Gens: Etymology 1 Borrowed from Latin gēns (“gens; people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European ǵénh tis (“birth; production”), from ǵenh-tis (“to beget; to give birth; to produce”)
2. Gent: Etymology 2 From Old French gent, ultimately from Latin genitum (“born”).​

• The etymological definition of "gentile" shows the word originally just means "a family or nation (tribe) of the same clan (father/bloodline)." The word "gentile" became used to refer to a nation of the sons of Noah foreign from the Hebrew race by the application of the Latin word gentilis in the Latin Vulgate's translation of גוי (gwèyà) H1471 in the Hebrew text. Though the word gentilis did not originally mean "non-Jew," it has come to mean this by usage of the term which is called "semantic change or shift."

Definition:

H1471
Original: גי גוי
Transliteration: gwèyà
Strong's Definition: Apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation ; hence a Gentile ; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people
BDB Definition: 1) nation, people (noun masculine) 1a) nation, people; 1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people, 1a2) of descendants of Abraham  1a3) of Israel, 1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (figuratively) 1c) Goyim? = " nations" (noun proper masculine)

Massing: assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass 

Troop: (of a group of people) come or go together or in large numbers

Swarm: move somewhere in large numbers

 

The Breakdown of the word [גוי]

The two root words גו and י are still among the true Hebrew speakers called Bantu people to this day. The root word גו is found in the Igbo words [igwe]=multitude [ìgwè]=group, crowd, so one can understand why H1471 גוי means a "massing, troop, swarm." In the Yoruba dialect, י is the root word in [ẹyà] =race, brand, category, tribe, tribes, [eya]=species, ethnic, so one can understand how the word gwèyà can also denote the different species, nations, bloodlines, and tribes of the Earth like "swarms of locusts or troop of animals or massing of people," whether a Hebrew nation or Gentile nation. So גוי gwèyà is simply "a tribal group, ethnic group, species category, etc" when examining the root words.

 

• The word גוי gweya firstly means "a multitude of people" which is a nation(s), so gweya (nation) is used in the Hebrew language to refer to either the Hebrews or another race. For example, in Exodus 19:6, גוי is used for the word "nation" in reference to the children of Israel. Also in Deuteronomy 4:6-7, it is used in reference to the Hebrews and the 70 nations that sprang from the sons of Noah.

Exodus 19:6

And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.H1471 These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

​Deuteronomy 4:6-7

Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation H1471 is a wise and understanding people. 7 For what nation H1471 is there so great, who hath Ahayah so nigh unto them, as Ahayah our Alahayim is in all things that we call upon him for?

• This helps understand why gwèyà can mean "people, nation, gentile, heathen" because the Hebrew word גוי just describes a group of people, but the actual English word "gentile" is not applied to the Hebrews in the English translations of the Holy Books. Before the Hebrew race was established, the sons of Adam were all referred to as just גוי "nations, people," and the unrighteous were referred to as "heathen" in the English texts of the book of Enoch, which was written before the Tower of Babel, so its translation has no use of the English word "gentile" to differentiate between the Hebrew race and other races because the Hebrew race wasn't established until after Enoch's time. In Enoch's time, all the children of men were 'nations' (as there was no Hebrew nation to differentiate them). Also, Enoch being given understanding of the things to come, he spake in wisdom of the Hebrews as 'the elect' and the brethren of the Gentiles who would believe as 'the righteous,' in certain instances;

Enoch 10:21-22

And all the children of men shall become righteous, and all nations shall offer adoration and shall praise Me, and all shall worship Me. 22. And the earth shall be cleansed from all defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all torment, and I will never again send (them) upon it from generation to generation and forever.

Enoch 39:6-7

And in that place mine eyes saw the Elect One of righteousness and of faith, and I saw his dwelling-place under the wings of the Lord of Spirits. And righteousness shall prevail in his days, and the righteous and elect shall be without number before Him forever and ever. 7. And all the righteous and elect before Him shall be strong as fiery lights, and their mouth shall be full of blessing, and their lips extol the name of the Lord of Spirits, and righteousness before Him shall never fail, [and uprightness shall never fail before Him.]

Enoch 1:3-8

Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: ‘The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling, 4. And the eternal Alahayim will tread upon the earth, (even) on Mount Sinai, [and appear from His camp] and appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of heavens. 5. And all shall be smitten with fear and the Watchers shall quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of the earth. 6. And the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills shall be made low, and shall melt like wax before the flame 7. And the earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, and all that is upon the earth shall perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all (men). 8. But with the righteous He will make peace.

• Alahayim will make peace with all nations through Christ as Ephesians 2. Enoch goes on to speak in wisdom of how the Hebrews will be reconciled in peace and protected in the latter times as well;

Enoch 1:8

..And will protect the elect, and mercy shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to Alahayim, and they shall be prospered, and they shall all be blessed. And He will help them all, and light shall appear unto them, and He will make peace with them

• After the flood at the Tower of Babel, the 70 families of the sons of Noah were separated from the race of the Hebrews. (The 70 divisions of the sons of Noah are listed in Genesis 10.) From that point onward, the English word "gentile" became used to refer to "non-Hebrews" through usage. The inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah consisted of Judah, Benjamin, half of Simeon, a remnant of the ten tribes, and Levi, so in scripture, a Jew refers to any person of the paternal lineage of the twelve tribes, not merely the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, or Levi, seeing as though a remnant of the twelve tribes resided in the land of Judah and neighboring cities as well. Some of the ten tribes resided in Judah from the days of Rehoboam and Asa, kings of Judah;

1Ki 12:21 

And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

• You see two tribes accounted for in the kingdom of Judah. Let’s continue to see if those were the only tribes there:

1Ki 12:22-23

But the word of Alahayim came unto Shemaiah the man of Alahayim, saying,  23 Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

• There we see there was a remnant of the people of the ten tribes amongst them as well who did not follow after Jeroboam. So thus far, the kingdom of Judah comprises of Judah, Benjamin, and the remnant of the ten tribes. You also had the children of Levi, who weren’t numbered with the tribes at this time, moving down into the kingdom of Judah only as well. 

2Ch 11:13-14

And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their coasts. 14 For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest's office unto Ahayah:

• There we see Levites are included in Judah 

2Ch 11:15-17

And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made. 16 And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek Ahayah Alahayim of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto Ahayah Alahayim of their fathers. 17 So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah, and made Rehoboam the son of Solomon strong, three years: for three years they walked in the way of David and Solomon.

• There we see through scripture that the inhabitants of Judah were the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and a remnant of the ten tribes. There were also some of the ten tribes that remained in Israel, and some righteous ones would still come to Jerusalem for the feasts. As time went on, about 35 years later, more folks from the ten tribes came to live in Judah in the days of Asa, king of Judah, to confirm that some of the ten tribes are inhabitants of the kingdom of Judah;

2Ch 15:9 

And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: 

• They weren’t Gentiles. They were strangers because they are sojourners in Judah since their land is different according to their tribes. 

for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Ahayah his Alahayim was with him.

2Ch 15:10 

So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.

• Hopefully, the precepts help understand that the kingdom of Judah did consist of a remnant of the 10 tribes and the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. One can also confirm there was a remnant of the ten tribes in Judea by evidence of Anna the prophetess being of Asher yet at the temple in Jerusalem in the New Testament. {Luke 2:36}

Luke 2:22, 36-37

And when the days of her purification according to the law of Moses were accomplished, they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord; 36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity; 37 And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served Alahayim with fastings and prayers night and day.

• The English meaning of "non-Jew" is accurate to relay that a 'Gentile' is not of the race of the Jews, which includes all twelve tribes because the inhabitants of Judah, Jerusalem, and the neighboring Israelite cities did include a remnant of the ten tribes that had resided in the cities there. 

The Division of the Nations  

• Let's look at how the division of the nations came about to separate the seventy nations from the Hebrew race.

Appendix of the Testament of Naphtali 8:3-6
And do not forget the Lord your Alahayim, the Alahayim of your fathers; Who was chosen by our father Abraham when the nations were divided in the time of Phaleg. 4 For at that time the Lord, blessed be He, came down from His highest heavens, and brought down with Him seventy ministering angels, Michael at their head. 5 He commanded them to teach the seventy families which sprang from the loins of Noah seventy languages. 6 Forthwith the angels descended and did according to the command of their Creator. But the holy language, the Hebrew language, remained only in the house of Shem and Eber, and in the house of Abraham our father, who is one of their descendants.

Appendix of the Testament of Naphtali 9:1-5

And on that day Michael took a message from the Lord, and said to the seventy nations, to each nation separately: 2 “You know the rebellion you undertook, and the treacherous confederacy into which you entered against the Lord of heaven and earth, and now choose today whom you will worship, and who shall be your intercessor in the height of heaven.” 3 Nimrod the wicked answered and said, “For me there is none greater than he who taught me and my people in one hour the language of Kush.” 4 In like manner also answered Put, and Mizraim, and Tubal, and Javan, and Mesech, and Tiras; and every nation chose its own angel, and none of them mentioned the name of the Lord, blessed be He. 5 But when Michael said unto Abraham our father, “Abram, whom dost thou choose, and whom wilt thou worship?” Abram answered, “I choose and select only Him who said, and the world was created; Who formed me in the womb of my mother, body within body; Who placed in me spirit and soul; Him I choose, and to Him I will cleave, I and my seed, all the days of the world.

• Abram chose to worship the Most High Ala and his Anointed, having the Lord Christ, blessed be He, as his intercessor for his seed all the days of the world;

Appendix of the Testament of Naphtali 10:1-3
Then the Most High dispersed the nations, and apportioned and allotted to every nation its share and lot. 2 And from that time all the nations of the earth separated themselves from the Lord, blessed be He; only the house of Abraham remained with his Creator to worship Him; and after him Isaac and Jacob. 3. Therefore, my sons I conjure you not to go astray and worship any other alahayims than Him whom your fathers have chosen. 

• There we see Abraham and his sons remained worshiping their Creator, the Most High and the Lord Christ, the Angel of Ahayah. The Holy Books confirm that there were truly seventy nations divided by their languages taught by seventy angels sent to confound their languages: 

Jasher 9:32
And Alahayim said to the seventy angels who stood foremost before him, to those who were near to him, saying, Come let us descend and confuse their tongues, that one man shall not understand the language of his neighbor, and they did so unto them

• Scriptures also confirm there are seventy Gentile nations:

Jubilees 44:34

And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and they children of Israel buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations. 

• The Appendix of the Testament of Naphtali is an essential book Alahayim has given to confirm the truth of the seventy nations. Those seventy nations are found in Gen 10:1-32 and 1 Chronicles 1:4-23 when one does not reckon Shem and Eber in the divisions because they did not separate themselves from the Lord according to Testament of Naphtali.

Genesis 10:1-7,13-18,22-29,31
[1] Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, 1. Ham, and  2. Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

The Sons of Japheth (3-16)

[2] The sons of Japheth; 3. Gomer, and 4. Magog, and 5. Madai, and 6. Javan, and 7. Tubal, and  8. Meshech, and 9. Tiras. [3] And the sons of Gomer; 10. Ashkenaz, and 11. Riphath, and 12. Togarmah. [4] And the sons of Javan;  13. Elishah, and 14. Tarshish, 15. Kittim, and 16. Dodanim. [5] By these were the isles of the Gentiles H1471 divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. H1471 

The Sons of Ham (17-45)

[6] And the sons of Ham; 17. Cush, and 18. Mizraim, and 19. Phut, and 20. Canaan. [7] And the sons of Cush; 21. Seba, and  22. Havilah, and 23. Sabtah, and 24. Raamah, and 25. Sabtecha: and the sons of Raamah; 26. Sheba, and  27. Dedan. [13] And Mizraim begat 28. Ludim, and 29. Anamim, and 30. Lehabim, and 31. Naphtuhim, [14] And 32. Pathrusim, and 33. Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) 34. and Caphtorim. [15] And Canaan begat 35. Sidon his firstborn, and 36. Heth, [16] And 37. the Jebusite, and 38. the Amorite, and 39. the Girgasite, [17] And 40. the Hivite, and 41. the Arkite, and 42. the Sinite, [18] And 43. the Arvadite, and 44. the Zemarite, and 45. the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. [20] These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.H1471 

The Sons of Shem (46-70)

[22] The children of Shem; 46. Elam, and 47. Asshur, and 48. Arphaxad, and 49. Lud, and 50. Aram. [23] And the children of Aram; 51. Uz, and 52. Hul, and 53. Gether, and 54. Mash. [24] And Arphaxad begat 55. Salah; and Salah begat Eber. [25] And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was 56. Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was 57. Joktan. [26] And Joktan begat 58. Almodad, and 59. Sheleph, and 60. Hazarmaveth, and 61. Jerah, [27] And 62. Hadoram, and 63. Uzal, and 64. Diklah, [28] And 65. Obal, and 66. Abimael, and 67. Sheba, [29] And 68. Ophir, and 69. Havilah, and 70. Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan. [31] These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations. H1471

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• The 70 nations were labeled according to their tongues and families (bloodline) and divided to their lands according to their nations. In the allotments of the sons of Noah in Jubilees 8-10, the islands of the Mediterranean sea are divided among the sons of Japheth (with only Cyprus belonged to Arphaxad.) For this reason, in the divisions of the lands, the islands belonged to the Gentiles, not the Hebrews. After the tower of Babel, only the sons of Japheth went to live in the islands. As a result, in Genesis 10:5, those islands are referred to as "the Isles of the Gentiles" to accurately relay that the Hebrew race was not included among the inhabitants of the islands since it was Japheth's sons who divided the islands amongst themselves and Abram the Hebrew was not amongst them.

Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

Jubilees 9:9-10, 13

And for Madai came forth as his portion that he should possess from the west of his two brothers to the islands, and to the coasts of the islands. 10. And for Javan came forth the fourth portion every island and the islands which are towards the border of Lud. 13. And for Tiras there came forth the seventh portion, four great islands in the midst of the sea, which reach to the portion of Ham [and the islands of Kamâtûrî came out by lot for the sons of Arpachshad as his inheritance. 

Genesis 10:5
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

• Alahayim willing, this helps understand the isles of the Gentiles was just accurately relaying that the isles were inhabited by the Gentiles after the split of the nations at the tower of Babel, not the Hebrews. The division of the families of the sons of Noah were divided according to the number of the children of Israel who went into Egypt [Exo 1:5] for further confirmation of the seventy nations.

Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations H1471 their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

• The number of the children of Israel was seventy entering into Egypt:

Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

• There we see the 70 souls entered Egypt, 70 angels taught the languages, and there are 70 Gentile nations in the reckoning of the sons of Noah in Genesis. It was also known among the nations that there were 70 Gentile nations:

Jubilees 44:34
And in the land of Canaan two sons of Judah died, Er and Onan, and they had no children, and the children of Israel buried those who perished, and they were reckoned among the seventy Gentile nations.

• The Jews, the nation of Israel, are Ahayah's inheritance and they are not reckoned amongst the 70 Gentile nations (unless they die in iniquity.) Jubilees 44:34

Additions to Esther 1:8-12

And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews: 9 And my nation is this Israel, which cried to Alahayim, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and Alahayim hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles. 10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of Alahayim, and another for all the Gentiles. 11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before Alahayim among all nations. 12 So Alahayim remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For Ahayah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.​

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Who are the Hebrews?

• At the tower of Babel, Abraham did not separate from Alahayim, so he is known as the Hebrew by nation and not reckoned with the 70 nations. The Hebrew nation continued in Isaac, Jacob, his the 12 sons, and their paternal posterity. The rests of Abraham's and Isaac's children are Gentiles and reckoned with the Gentiles according to the records. [Jub 16:16-18] 

Jubilees 16:16-18
And we returned in the seventh month, and found Sarah with child before us and we blessed him, and we announced to him all the things which had been decreed concerning him, that he should not die till he should beget six sons more, and should see (them) before he died; but (that) in Isaac should his name and seed be called:[17] And (that) all the seed of his sons should be Gentiles, and be reckoned with the Gentiles; but from the sons of Isaac one should become a holy seed, and should not be reckoned among the Gentiles. [18] For he should become the portion of the Most High, and all his seed had fallen into the possession of Alahayim, that it should be unto Ahayah a people for (His) possession above all nations and that it should become a kingdom and priests and a holy nation. 

• Now, the sons of Jacob's posterity are the Hebrews in the earth today, but if any of the children of Jacob die in their iniquity, they are reckoned among the 70 Gentile nations as well when they die. {Jubilees 44:34} In the end times, one tribe will be alienated from the race of Israel according to Dan, the son of Jacob, though they still have an opportunity for salvation as Gentiles:

Testament of Dan 5:4-6; 7:3
I know that in the last days ye shall depart from the Lord, and ye shall provoke Levi unto anger, and fight against Judah; But ye shall not prevail against them, For an angel of the Lord shall guide them both; for by them shall Israel stand. 5 And whensoever ye depart from the Lord, ye shall walk in all evil and work the abominations of the Gentiles, going a-whoring after women of the lawless ones, while with all wickedness the spirits of wickedness work in you. 6 For I have read in the book of Enoch, the righteous, that your prince is Satan, and that all the spirits of wickedness and pride conspire to attend constantly on the sons of Levi, to cause them to sin before Ahayah. 7:3 [Nevertheless, Dan prophesied unto them that they should forget their Alahayim, and should be alienated from the land of their inheritance and from the race of Israel, and from the family of their seed.]   

Testament of Dan 6:1-10

And now, fear the Lord, my children, and beware of Satan and his spirits. 2 Draw near unto Alahayim and unto the angel that intercedeth for you, for he is a mediator between Alahayim and man, and for the peace of Israel he shall stand up against the kingdom of the enemy. 3 Therefore, is the enemy eager to destroy all that call upon the Lord. 4 For he knoweth that upon the day on which Israel shall repent, the kingdom of the enemy shall be brought to an end. 5 For the very angel of peace shall 6 strengthen Israel, that it fall not into the extremity of evil. 6 And it shall be in the time of the lawlessness of Israel, that the Lord will not depart from them, but will transform them into a nation that doeth His will, for none of the angels will be equal unto him. 7 And His name shall be in every place in Israel, and among the Gentiles. 8 Keep, therefore, yourselves, my children, from every evil work, and cast away wrath and all lying, and love truth and long-suffering. 9 And the things which ye have heard from your father, do ye also impart to your children that the Saviour of the Gentiles may receive you; for he is true and long-suffering, meek and lowly, and teacheth by his works the law of Alahayim. 10 Depart, therefore, from all unrighteousness, and cleave unto the righteousness of Alahayim, and your race will be saved for ever​.​

• According to scripture, the sons of Dan will be reckoned among the Gentiles and not numbered among the children of Israel for the reasons their father testified against them. Nonetheless, the believers of his sons and daughters will be saved as Gentiles, being reckoned as children of Abraham through faith.

For further edification on the tribe of Dan and the salvation of his children, please visit the lesson on the topic: 

Identifying the Sons' of Jacob: The Tribe of Dan

https://youtu.be/5mxfMqjA24I?si=7ZchRrznmRHWggNM

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• With the definition and etymology of גוי and Gentile, one can understand why gentile is used in reference to the 70 nations because they literally are "a massing or swarm of people" as the word גוי means. One can also understand that Gentiles are nations not reckoned among the Hebrew race according to scripture. This means the word gentile in scripture just helps know that the person(s) being referred to originates from or are reckoned among the 70 Gentile nations not the Hebrew race. Now that we see all the nations of the world today from the scriptural perspective, we can understand that the Gentiles by paternal bloodline are those of the 70 Gentile nations, the Arabs (Ishmael & Keturah's sons), and Esau. [Jubilees 16:16-18] Also, the sons of Dan will be reckoned amongst the Gentiles for their salvation in these end times [Testament of Dan 6-7] and any Israelite that dies in their sins in the end times will also be reckoned amongst the 70 Gentile nations. Jubilees 44:34 Hopefully this helps understand who the Gentiles are according to scripture. 

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