No, Gentiles are any non-Jews.
Jews living in Greek society already spoke Greek from birth. Some of these Greek-speaking Jews living in Alexandria, Egypt did the translations.Answer:According to our tradition, the first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was done by seventy Torah-sages, at the command of Ptolemy Philadelphus, around the year 270 BCE.
The name for the Festival of Weeks in Greek was derivative from the Hebrew term for the holiday "Shavuot" and is pronounced "Ssabuot" (Σσαβουότ).
It depends how Hellenized they were. Most Jews could converse in either Hebrew or Aramaic. (By the 300s BCE, Aramaic was starting to become dominant over Hebrew.) All Hellenized Jews could speak Koine Greek. Some of the Hellenized Jews were so enamored with Greek culture that they only knew how to speak Koine Greek and were no longer capable of speaking Semitic languages, but this was the minority.
Mark wrote it primarily for gentile (non-Jews) Greek-speaking residents of the Roman Empire.
Well they are speaking Modern Greek. Just like the English are speaking Modern English and not Old English.
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Generally speaking, they died.
Cyprus is a Mediterranean island, south of Turkey, with Greek and Turkish speaking inhabitants.
Greek was the language of the eastern parts of the Roman Empire, with the exception of the Palestinian Jews, who steadfastly stayed with Aramaic, the lingua franca of the old Persian Empire. All the New Testament authors were Greek speakers and they wrote for a Greek-speaking audience. Even Paul was a diaspora Jew, rather than a Palestinian Jew, and so would have been at home writing in Greek.
The 14,000 Greek Jews are. The rest of them, being followers of other faiths, are not.
An Ancient Greek is a native or inhabitant of Ancient Greece, the Greek-speaking world of ancient times.
Septuagint |ˈsep ch oōəˌjint| noun a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament), including the Apocrypha, made for Greek-speaking Jews in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC and adopted by the early Christian Churches.