Gentile

Facts

A Gentile is a person who is not a descendant of Jacob or of his twelve sons. Gentiles, then, are people who are not Jews.

In Scripture, Gentiles are occasionally referred to as the "uncircumcised" because many of them did not circumcise their male children as the Israelites did.
Because God chose the Jews to be his special people, they thought of the Gentiles as outsiders who could never be God's people.
The Jews were also called Israelites or Hebrews at different times in history. Everyone else was called a Gentile.
Gentile could also be translated as "not a Jew" or "non-Jewish" or "not an Israelite" (Old Testament).
Traditionally, Jews would not eat with Gentiles, which initially caused problems within the early church.