Dict: easton - Heath

easton:

Heath @ Heb. 'arar, kjv@Jeremiah:17:6 kjv@Jeremiah:48:6), a species of juniper called by the Arabs by the same name ('arar), the Juniperus sabina or savin. "Its gloomy, stunted appearance, with its scale-like leaves pressed close to its gnarled stem, and cropped close by the wild goats, as it clings to the rocks about Petra, gives great force to the contrast suggested by the prophet, between him that trusteth in man, naked and destitute, and the man that trusteth in the Lord, flourishing as a tree planted by the waters" (Tristram, Natural History of the Bible).

Heathen @ (Heb. plural goyum). At first the word goyim denoted generally all the nations of the world kjv@Genesis:18:18; comp. kjv@Galatians:3:8). The Jews afterwards became a people distinguished in a marked manner from the other goyim. They were a separate people kjv@Leviticus:20:23 kjv@Leviticus:26:14-45; Deuteronomy:28), and the other nations, the Amorites, Hittites, etc., were the goyim, the heathen, with whom the Jews were forbidden to be associated in any way kjv@Joshua:23:7; kjvKings:11:2). The practice of idolatry was the characteristic of these nations, and hence the word came to designate idolaters kjv@Psalms:106:47; kjv@Jeremiah:46:28; kjv@Lamentations:1:3; kjv@Isaiah:36:18), the wicked kjv@Psalms:9:5 kjv@Psalms:9:15, 17). The corresponding Greek word in the New Testament, ethne, has similar shades of meaning. In kjv@Acts:22:21, kjv@Galatians:3:14, it denotes the people of the earth generally; and in kjv@Matthew:6:7, an idolater. In modern usage the word denotes all nations that are strangers to revealed religion.