Hellenists, Greek-Jews; Jews born in a foreign country, and thus did not speak Hebrew (Acts 6:1; 9:29), nor join in the Hebrew services of the Jews in Palestine, but had synagogues of their own in Jerusalem. Joel 3:6 =Greeks.
The histories of Greece and Palestine are little connected with each other. In (Genesis 10:2-5) Mose...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary