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"Gentleman," "gentle" etc do not come from Hebrew.
Maybe you are thinking about the fact that "gentile" comes from the sense "someone from one of the nations (other than Israel)," just as Hebrew goy originally meant "nation" (including the nation of Israel or any other), and came to mean "someone from one of the (other) nations."
"Gentile" was formed as a calque from Hebrew.
But none of these come from a Hebrew root. Rather, they all come from the Latin gens, gentis "clan, tribe, people," thence "nation." Same root as gene, for that mater.
Right, my bad, it was translated from Hebrew, but does not come directly from it: