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In the New Testament, the word "Gentile" (Greek "ethnos," from which we get the English word "ethnic") is broadly applied to anyone who is not a Jew. It's a comparative term, and depends on having the Israelites to compare to. "Gentile" is also comparative in the Old Testament. Before the rise of the Israelite nation, it applied to anyone who didn't worship the one true God. By that definition, it would NOT be correct to think of Abraham as a Gentile. Technically he wasn't a Jew, but was the forerunnerof the Jewish people; the grandfather of their patriarch Jacob, whom God renamed Israel (Genesis 32:28).

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