Gentiles

Established Tamil Bible term for non-Jewish peoples. NOTE: ஜாதி is also Tamil’s ordinary word for “caste,” and caste is an unusually prominent and politically charged category in Tamil Nadu given the 20th-century Dravidian and Self-Respect anti-caste political movements; translators and reviewers should be alert that this compound reads adjacent to caste vocabulary even though its doctrinal meaning here is “nations/peoples,” not caste.