Gentile, pagan; as a heathen author.
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1. A pagan; a Gentile; one who worships idols, or is unacquainted with the true God. In the Scriptures, the word seems to comprehend all nations except the Jews or Israelites, as they were all strangers to the true religion, and all addicted to idolatry. The word may now be applied perhaps to all nations, except to Christians and Mohammedans.
2. Heathen, without the plural termination, is used plurally or collectively, for Gentiles or heathen nations.
3. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Psalms 2:8 .
4. Heathen, however, has a plural, expressing two or more individuals.
5. If men have reason to be heathens in Japan--
6. The precepts and examples of the ancient heathens.
7. A rude, illiterate, barbarous person.
1. Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
2. Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
3. Irreligious; scoffing.
1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
2. An irreligious person.
1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively.
2. Heathenism.
1. Belonging to Gentiles or pagans; as heathenish rites.
2. Rude; illiterate; wild; uncivilized.
3. Barbarous; savage; cruel; rapacious.
1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens.
2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel.
3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
After the manner of heathens.
In a heathenish manner.
The state or quality of being heathenish.
1. Gentilism; paganism; ignorance of the true God; idolatry; the rites or system of religion of a pagan nation.
2. Rudeness; barbarism; ignorance.
2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
To render heathen or heathenish.
To render heathen or heathenish.
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State of being heathen or like the heathen.
1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen.
2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
Heterodoxy Roget’s Thesaurus §984
N. heterodoxy, error, false doctrine, heresy, schism, schismaticism, schismaticalness, recusancy, backsliding, apostasy, atheism, bigotry, fanaticism, iconoclasm, hyperorthodoxy, precisianism, bibliolatry, sabbatarianism, puritanism, anthropomorphism, idolatry, superstition, dissent, sectarism, sectarianism, noncomformity, secularism, syncretism, religious sects, protestantism, arianism, adventism, jansenism, stundism, erastianism, calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, origenism, sabellianism, socinianism, deism, theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism &c. high church, low church, broad church, free church, ultramontanism, papism, papistry, monkery, papacy, anglicanism, catholicism, romanism, popery, scarlet lady, church of rome, greek church, paganism, heathenism, ethicism, mythology, polytheism, ditheism, tritheism, dualism, heathendom, judaism, gentilism, islamism, islam, mohammedanism, babism, sufiism, neoplatonism, turcism, brahminism, hinduism, buddhism, sabianism, gnosticism, hylotheism, mormonism, christian science, heretic, apostate, antichrist, pagan, heathen, painim, paynim, giaour, gentile, pantheist, polytheist, idolator, schismatic, sectary, sectarian, sectarist, seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter, nonconformist, nonjuror, bigot, fanatic, abdal, iconoclast, latitudinarian, deist, theist, unitarian, positivist, materialist, homoiousian, homoousian, limitarian, theosophist, ubiquitarian, skeptic, protestant, huguenot, orthodox dissenter, congregationalist, independent, episcopalian, presbyterian, lutheran, calvinist, methodist, wesleyan, ana, baptist, mormon, latter-day saint, irvingite, sandemanian, glassite, erastian, sublapsarian, supralapsarian, gentoo, antinomian, swedenborgian, adventist, bible christian, bryanite, brownian, christian scientist, dunker, ebionite, eusebian, faith curer, curist, familist, jovinianist, libadist, quaker, restitutionist, shaker, stundist, tunker &c, ultramontane, anglican, oxford school, tractarian, puseyite, ritualist, puritan, catholic, roman, catholic, romanist, papist, jew, hebrew, rabbinist, rabbist, sadducee, babist, motazilite, mohammedan, mussulman, moslem, shiah, sunni, wahabi, osmanli, brahmin, brahman, parsee, sufi, buddhist, magi, gymnosophist, fire worshiper, sabian, gnostic, rosicrucian &c
Adj. heterodox, heretical, unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical, antiscriptural, apocryphal, unchristian, antichristian, schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic, sectarian, dissenting, dissident, secular &c, (lay) 997, pagan, heathen, heathenish, ethnic, ethnical, gentile, paynim, pantheistic, polytheistic, judaical, mohammedan, brahminical, buddhist, romish, protestant, bigoted, (obstinate) 606, superstitious, fanatical, idolatrous, visionary
Phr. "slave to no sect", superstitione tollenda religio non tollitur
Irreligion Roget’s Thesaurus §989
N. irreligion, indevotion, # godlessness, ungodliness, laxity, quietism, skepticism, doubt, unbelief, disbelief, incredulity, incredulousness, want of faith, want of belief, pyrrhonism, bout, agnosticism, atheism, deism, hylotheism, materialism, positivism, nihilism, infidelity, freethinking, antichristianity, rationalism, neology, atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist, giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, nazarene, espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist, materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist
V. be irreligious, disbelieve, lack faith, doubt, question, dechristianize
Adj. irreligious, indevout, undevout, devoutless, godless, graceless, ungodly, unholy, unsanctified, unhallowed, atheistic, without god, skeptical, freethinking, unbelieving, unconverted, incredulous, faithless, lacking faith, deistical, unchristian, antichristian, worldly, mundane, earthly, carnal, worldly &c. minded
Adv. irreligiously, 4, acts of religion
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And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
You will perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies will consume you.
But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.
But for their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am the LORD.”
Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not shall serve me.
You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.
Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.
They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.
Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.