Greek is a language. The New Testament was written in Greek.
Greek is a culture.
Greek is an ethnicity of the people from Greece.
The Bible sometimes uses the label “Greek” for everyone who is not Jewish, classifying people as either Jewish or Greek. In this context, the word Gentile is sometimes used instead of Greek.
Key verse about Greek: The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?” (John 7:35, NIV).
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