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25:44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.†
Book 3. *

heathen = someone who is not civilized or not moral OR an offensive term for a person who does not believe in a preferred religion
26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.†
Book 3.
26:38 And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.†
Book 3.
26:45 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.†
Book 3.
4:27 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.†
Book 5.
22:44 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.†
Book 10.
22:50 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.†
Book 10.
16:3 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.†
Book 12.
17:7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, 17:8 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.†
Book 12.
17:10 And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree: 17:11 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: 17:12 For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.†
Book 12.
17:15 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.†
Book 12.
21:2 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.†
Book 12.
16:24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.†
Book 13.
16:35 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.†
Book 13.
and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen?†
Book 14.
28:3 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.†
Book 14.
33:1 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem: 33:2 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.†
Book 14.
33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.†
Book 14.
36:14 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.†
Book 14.
6:21 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, 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.†
Book 15.
5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren?†
Book 16.
5:9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?†
Book 16.
5:17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.†
Book 16.
6:5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand; 6:6 Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.†
Book 16.
6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.†
Book 16.
2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?†
Book 19.
2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.†
Book 19.
9:5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou hast destroyed the wicked, thou hast put out their name for ever and ever.†
Book 19.
9:15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.†
Book 19.
9:19 Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight.†
Book 19.
10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.†
Book 19.
18:43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.†
Book 19.
18:49 Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name.†
Book 19.
33:10 The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.†
Book 19.
44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.†
Book 19.
44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.†
Book 19.
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.†
Book 19.
46:6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.†
Book 19.
46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.†
Book 19.
47:8 God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.†
Book 19.
59:5 Thou therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors.†
Book 19.
59:8 But thou, O LORD, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.†
Book 19.
78:55 He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.†
Book 19.
79:1 O god, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.†
Book 19.
79:6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.†
Book 19.
79:10 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God?†
Book 19.
let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.†
Book 19.
80:8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.†
Book 19.
94:10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct?†
Book 19.
96:3 Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.†
Book 19.

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(1) (heathen)
an often offensive (sometimes humorous) word for someone seen as uncivilized or immoral, especially because she does not share the speaker’s religion or comes from a culture unfamiliar with it

This word is usually judgmental or insulting, so today it is used mostly in joking contexts or when describing older attitudes.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, heathen can refer to a person who lacks culture or good taste.

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