STRONGS NUMBER G1675

Original Word: Ἑλληνιστής
Transliteration: Hellēnistēs
Phonetic Spelling: (hel-lay-nis-tace')
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew)
Meaning: Hellenistic -- a Hellenist (Greek-speaking Jew)Grecian.

From a derivative of Hellen; a Hellenist or Greek-speaking Jew -- Grecian.

see GREEK Hellen

STRONGS NT 1675: Ἑλληνιστής

Ἑλληνιστής, ἑλληνιστου, ὁ (from ἑλληνίζω to copy the manners and worship of the Greeks or to use the Greek language (Winers Grammar, 94 (89f), cf. 28)), a Hellenist, i. e. one who imitates the manners and customs or the worship of the Greeks, and uses the Greek tongue; employed in the N. T. of Jews born in foreign lands and speaking Greek (Grecian Jews): Acts 11:20 R (WH; see in Ἕλλην, 2); Acts 9:29; the name adhered to them even after they had embraced Christianity, Acts 6:1, where it is opposed to οἱ Ἑβραῖοί, which see Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Hellenisten; Reuss in Herzog see p. 701ff; (BB. DD., under the word ; Farrar, St. Paul, chapter vii.; Wetstein (1752) on Acts 6:1).