GENTILE, in the English Bible, the term generally applied to those who were not of the Jewish race. It is an adaptation of the Lat. gentilis, of or belonging to the same gens, the clan or family; as defined by the grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus (c. A.D. 15o, edit. K. 0. Muller, P. 94) : "gentilis dicitur et ex eodem genere ortus et is qui simili nomine appellatur; ut ait Cincius [c. 210 B.e.] , gentiles mihi sunt, qui meo nomine appel lantur." In post-Augustan Latin gentilis meant "national," be longing to the same race. Later still it meant "foreign," i.e., other than Roman, and was used in the Vulgate with gentes, to trans late the Hebrew goyyim, nations, LXX. E9vn, the non-Israelitish peoples (see further JEws). It is also used by Mormons of all who are not Mormons. (A. L. W.)