(, , regular plural , or ) is the standard
Hebrew biblical term for a "nation", including that of Israel. The word nation has been the common translation of the Hebrew "goy", or "ethnesin" (ἔθνεσιν) in the
LXX, from the earliest English language bibles such as the 1604
King James Version and the 1530
Tyndale Bible, following the Latin
Vulgate which used both
gentile (and cognates) and nationes / nationibus. The term "
nation" did not have the same political connotations it entails today.