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Infidel
Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity.
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A worshiper of idols; one who pays divine honors to images, statues, or representations of anything made by hands; one who worships as a deity that w…
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One who idolizes or loves to the point of reverence; an idolater.
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See Painim.
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Alt. of Ethnical
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One of a non-Jewish nation; one neither a Jew nor a Christian; a worshiper of false gods; a heathen.
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of Heathen
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One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
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