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among = to. Greek pros. App-104.
will he go? = is He about to go? (Two verbs.)
the dispersed. Greek Diaspora = the Dispersion. Occurs three times; here, 1Pe_1:1 ("scattered "), and Jam_1:1 ("which are scattered abroad"; literally "in the Dispersion").
among = of:
Gentiles. So called from the Latin yentas = nations (as distinguished by race); hence, used of nations, as distinct from the one nation Israel (Gen_12:2. Compare Joh_14:1, s); Hebrew = goyim: rendered in Authorized Version "nations" 371 times, "heathen "143 times, "Gentiles" 30 times, and "people "11 times. In N.T. days, Greece being the great dominating nation in arms, literature, and language, the word Hellenes became the N.T. word for all non-Jews, Hellen, the son of Deucalion, being the legendary ancestor of the Greek nation (Homer, Iliad, ii. 684). Hellen had been already used in the Septuagint Version, of the "Philistines" (Isa_9:12), and of "the sons of Javan" (Zec_9:13. Zec_9:1 Macc. 8.18. 2 Macc. 4.36. Josephus (Antiquities I. vi. 1). Hellenes in the N.T. never means Jews, but is always distinguished from them. See Joh_12:20. Act_14:1; Act_16:1, Act_16:3; Act_18:4; Act_19:10, Act_19:17; Act_20:21. Rom_1:16; Rom_2:9, Rom_2:10; Rom_8:9; Rom_10:12. 1Co_1:24; 1Co_10:32. Gal_1:2, Gal_1:3; Gal_3:28. Col_8:11. On the other hand, the Greek Hellenistes = Hellenized, and speaking Greek, is used of those who were Jews by birth, but spoke Greek. It occurs three times, and is rendered "Grecians". See Act_6:1; Act_9:29; Act_11:20.