- Goy: Means "nation" or "people" in Hebrew. The Hebrew Bible frequently uses goy or goyim to describe nations in general—and even applies it to the Israelites themselves (as in Genesis 12:2). []
- Ethnos: Means "nation," "tribe," or "people" in Greek. The Greek Septuagint and the New Testament use ethne (plural) to translate the Hebrew goyim.
- Gens / Gentilis: In Latin, gens meant a clan, tribe, or people of the same common stock. The adjective gentilis meant "of or belonging to a clan or nation".
- Religious Distinction: When Jerome translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) in the 4th century, he used gentes / gentilis to translate ethne and goyim. As Christianity separated from its Jewish roots and expanded through the Roman Empire, gentilis shifted from meaning a "fellow national/foreigner" to specifically meaning a pagan or non-Christian, mirroring how goy and ethnos had evolved among religious communities to mean outsiders.
How scattered ISRAEL became GENTILES (this confusing word just means NATIONs or PEOPLEs)
https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-israel-became-gentiles-this.html?m=1
The topic of gentiles (peoples, nations) is always used by wannabes to squeeze or insert themselves into the Bible Narrative! Most wannabes don't know the back story that the House of Israel got cut off from covenant and became, "NOT GOD'S PEOPLE/ NATION" for playing the whore. Thus, they got scattered in the pagan nations, but YHWH was merciful in promising to bring them back into covenant in the latter days (30-70AD). They would be CALLED GOD'S PEOPLE again as promised in Hosea and fulfilled in Romans. The Deliverer, Christ, came from Zion in 70AD and took JACOB's (ISRAEL's) sin away. The text ain't talking about Samoans, Mexicans, Irish, Filipinos... gentiles getting their sins taken away, but scattered Israel gentiles!
1. ISRAEL was called, "NOT MY PEOPLE" by YHWH in Hosea.
2. NOT MY PEOPLE was attributed to THE GENTILES by Paul (Rom 9).
3. ISRAEL was THE GENTILES (SCATTERED ISRAELITES) that Paul was speaking of.
ROM 9:24-26
even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:
“I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people; and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”
26 and, “In the very place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
Paul is telling his readers in Rome that they are the remnant descendants of the tribes of Israel, the seed of Abraham to whom the promise of the NC Kingdom was to (Rom9:3-5). The ‘called’, the elect ‘remnant’ out of the ‘sands of the sea’. They were the scattered elect (lost sheep) being regathered, reconciled back into the (sheep) fold. (the sheep from another fold that Christ spoke of).
In 11:25-26, Paul says, “….until the fullness of the gentiles comes in, then ALL ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED…”
How does the fullness of the gentiles coming in, bring about ALL ISRAEL SAVED!??
Because the gentiles in this CONTEXT are scattered ISRAELITES!!!
“NOT MY PEOPLE” is used 5x in Scripture and all refer to ISRAEL https://tueseahkiong.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-phrase-not-my-people-is-used-5x-in.html





























