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ἔθνη — 250x G1484 ἔθνος
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Occurrences: 160 times in 152 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Accusative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These were the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, in their nations; and from these the nations were divided on the earth after the flood.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:5 - In the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him came and attacked the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - “I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - “And I will bless her and also give you a son by her; then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be from her.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - “And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:16 - These were the sons of Ishmael and these were their names, by their towns and their settlements, twelve princes according to their nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:18 - “You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread; nor shall the fat of My sacrifice remain until morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:27 - “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:16 - “For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - “For I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - “God brings him out of Egypt;
He has strength like a wild ox;
He shall consume the nations, his enemies;
He shall break their bones
And pierce them with his arrows.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - “driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an inheritance, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - “When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:6 - “For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:7 - “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be a male or female barren among you or among your livestock.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - “And the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you little by little; you will be unable to destroy them at once, lest the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 - “Do not think in your heart, after the LORD your God has cast them out before you, saying, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land'; but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is driving them out from before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:15 - “The LORD delighted only in your fathers, to love them; and He chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as it is this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - “then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess greater and mightier nations than yourselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:29 - “When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - “When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations that are around me,'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - “For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not appointed such for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - “When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land the LORD your God is giving you, and you dispossess them and dwell in their cities and in their houses,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:64 - “Then the LORD will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known—wood and stone.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - “All nations would say, ‘Why has the LORD done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - “The LORD your God Himself crosses over before you; He will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua himself crosses over before you, just as the LORD has said.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations,
When He separated the sons of Adam,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:17 - His glory is like a firstborn bull,
And his horns like the horns of the wild ox;
Together with them
He shall push the peoples
To the ends of the earth;
They are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And they are the thousands of Manasseh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 33:19 - They shall call the peoples to the mountain;
There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness;
For they shall partake of the abundance of the seas
And of treasures hidden in the sand.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea westward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - “For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - “know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - “And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - Now these are the nations which the LORD left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all who had not known any of the wars in Canaan
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:20 - “that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 7:23 - “And who is like Your people, like Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people, to make for Himself a name—and to do for Yourself great and awesome deeds for Your land—before Your people whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt, the nations, and their gods?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:11 - There they burned incense on all the high places, like the nations whom the LORD had carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:41 - So these nations feared the LORD, yet served their carved images; also their children and their children's children have continued doing as their fathers did, even to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - “Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:9 - But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 14:17 - Then the fame of David went out into all lands, and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 17:21 - “And who is like Your people Israel, the one nation on the earth whom God went to redeem for Himself as a people—to make for Yourself a name by great and awesome deeds, by driving out nations from before Your people whom You redeemed from Egypt?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:9 - So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 12:23 - He makes nations great, and destroys them;
He enlarges nations, and guides them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:8 - Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:20 - Put them in fear, O LORD,
That the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 44:2 - You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:3 - He will subdue the peoples under us,
And the nations under our feet.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:8 - God reigns over the nations;
God sits on His holy throne.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:5 - You therefore, O LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Awake to punish all the nations;
Do not be merciful to any wicked transgressors. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 59:8 - But You, O LORD, shall laugh at them;
You shall have all the nations in derision.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:7 - He rules by His power forever;
His eyes observe the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 66:8 - Oh, bless our God, you peoples!
And make the voice of His praise to be heard,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 67:4 - Oh, let the nations be glad and sing for joy!
For You shall judge the people righteously,
And govern the nations on earth. Selah
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:30 - Rebuke the beasts of the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Till everyone submits himself with pieces of silver.
Scatter the peoples who delight in war.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 78:55 - He also drove out the nations before them,
Allotted them an inheritance by survey,
And made the tribes of Israel dwell in their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:6 - Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 80:8 - You have brought a vine out of Egypt;
You have cast out the nations, and planted it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:10 - He who instructs the nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:34 - They did not destroy the peoples,
Concerning whom the LORD had commanded them,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:4 - The LORD is high above all nations,
His glory above the heavens.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 117:1 - Praise the LORD, all you Gentiles!
Laud Him, all you peoples!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:10 - He defeated many nations
And slew mighty kings—
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 24:24 - He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Him the people will curse;
Nations will abhor him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:9 - If a wise man contends with a foolish man,
Whether the fool rages or laughs, there is no peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 - Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD's house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall flow to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 - Yet he does not mean so,
Nor does his heart think so;
But it is in his heart to destroy,
And cut off not a few nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 - “And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse,
Who shall stand as a banner to the people;
For the Gentiles shall seek Him,
And His resting place shall be glorious.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - He will set up a banner for the nations,
And will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,[fn] son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:26 - This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth,
And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish,
And the vine of Sibmah;
The lords of the nations have broken down its choice plants,
Which have reached to Jazer
And wandered through the wilderness.
Her branches are stretched out,
They are gone over the sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:13 - The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters;
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind,
Like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 - And He will destroy on this mountain
The surface of the covering cast over all people,
And the veil that is spread over all nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 - His breath is like an overflowing stream,
Which reaches up to the neck,
To sift the nations with the sieve of futility;
And there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people,
Causing them to err.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:3 - At the noise of the tumult the people shall flee;
When You lift Yourself up, the nations shall be scattered;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 - For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations,
And His fury against all their armies;
He has utterly destroyed them,
He has given them over to the slaughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:26 - “Did you not hear long ago
How I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:1 - “Thus says the LORD to His anointed,
To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:22 - Thus says the Lord GOD:

“Behold, I will lift My hand in an oath to the nations,
And set up My standard for the peoples;
They shall bring your sons in their arms,
And your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:3 - For you shall expand to the right and to the left,
And your descendants will inherit the nations,
And make the desolate cities inhabited.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:2 - For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth,
And deep darkness the people;
But the LORD will arise over you,
And His glory will be seen upon you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:10 - Go through,
Go through the gates!
Prepare the way for the people;
Build up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
Lift up a banner for the peoples!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 64:2 - As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:18 - “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:19 - “I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul[fn] and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you;
Before you were born I sanctified you;
I ordained you a prophet to the nations.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 1:10 - See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:7 - The lion has come up from his thicket,
And the destroyer of nations is on his way.
He has gone forth from his place
To make your land desolate.
Your cities will be laid waste,
Without inhabitant.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:16 - “Make mention to the nations,
Yes, proclaim against Jerusalem,
That watchers come from a far country
And raise their voice against the cities of Judah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:25 - Pour out Your fury on the Gentiles, who do not know You,
And on the families who do not call on Your name;
For they have eaten up Jacob,
Devoured him and consumed him,
And made his dwelling place desolate.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - ‘behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,' says the LORD, ‘and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land, against its inhabitants, and against these nations all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - Then I took the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent me:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - “Take a scroll of a book and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel, against Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah even to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 - I have heard a message from the LORD,
And an ambassador has been sent to the nations:
“Gather together, come against her,
And rise up to battle!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon was a golden cup in the LORD's hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations are deranged.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 - “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:
For with you I will break the nation in pieces;
With you I will destroy kingdoms;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 - Set up a banner in the land,
Blow the trumpet among the nations!
Prepare the nations against her,
Call the kingdoms together against her:
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a general against her;
Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Prepare against her the nations,
With the kings of the Medes,
Its governors and all its rulers,
All the land of his dominion.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, the wall of Babylon shall fall.
Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her pleasant things;
For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
Not to enter Your assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Although I have cast them far off among the Gentiles, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet I shall be a little sanctuary for them in the countries where they have gone.” '
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations set against him from the provinces on every side,
And spread their net over him;
He was trapped in their pit.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 27:33 - ‘When your wares went out by sea,
You satisfied many people;
You enriched the kings of the earth
With your many luxury goods and your merchandise.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - “It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms; it shall never again exalt itself above the nations, for I will diminish them so that they will not rule over the nations anymore.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - ‘I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them throughout the countries.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - ‘I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them throughout the countries. Then they shall know that I am the LORD.' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:9 - ‘I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:18 - “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
And cast them down to the depths of the earth,
Her and the daughters of the famous nations,
With those who go down to the Pit:
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 35:10 - “Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess them,' although the LORD was there,
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:5 - ‘therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order to plunder its open country.” '
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:7 - ‘Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations that are around you shall bear their own shame.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:19 - “So I scattered them among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout the countries; I judged them according to their ways and their deeds.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:20 - “When they came to the nations, wherever they went, they profaned My holy name—when they said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and yet they have gone out of His land.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:22 - “and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:22 - “And I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed; I will rain down on him, on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:21 - “I will set My glory among the nations; all the nations shall see My judgment which I have executed, and My hand which I have laid on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:17 - Let the priests, who minister to the LORD,
Weep between the porch and the altar;
Let them say, “Spare Your people, O LORD,
And do not give Your heritage to reproach,
That the nations should rule over them.
Why should they say among the peoples,
‘Where is their God?' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:11 - Assemble and come, all you nations,
And gather together all around.
Cause Your mighty ones to go down there, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 - “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:12 - That they may possess the remnant of Edom,[fn]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the LORD who does this thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah.

Thus says the Lord GOD concerning Edom
(We have heard a report from the LORD,
And a messenger has been sent among the nations, saying,
“Arise, and let us rise up against her for battle”):
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:15 - “For the day of the LORD upon all the nations is near;
As you have done, it shall be done to you;
Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - He shall judge between many peoples,
And rebuke strong nations afar off;
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war anymore.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:13 - “Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hooves bronze;
You shall beat in pieces many peoples;
I will consecrate their gain to the LORD,
And their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot,
The mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations through her harlotries,
And families through her sorceries.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 - Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he enlarges his desire as hell,[fn]
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 - Because you have plundered many nations,
All the remnant of the people shall plunder you,
Because of men's blood
And the violence of the land and the city,
And of all who dwell in it.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:6 - He stood and measured the earth;
He looked and startled the nations.
And the everlasting mountains were scattered,
The perpetual hills bowed.
His ways are everlasting.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:12 - You marched through the land in indignation;
You trampled the nations in anger.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - ‘and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations,[fn] and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the LORD of hosts.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - I am exceedingly angry with the nations at ease;
For I was a little angry,
And they helped—but with evil intent.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - And I said, “What are these coming to do?” So he said, “These are the horns that scattered Judah, so that no one could lift up his head; but the craftsmen[fn] are coming to terrify them, to cast out the horns of the nations that lifted up their horn against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For thus says the LORD of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - “But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they had not known. Thus the land became desolate after them, so that no one passed through or returned; for they made the pleasant land desolate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:9 - “It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:2 - For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem;
The city shall be taken,
The houses rifled,
And the women ravished.
Half of the city shall go into captivity,
But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:18 - If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:9 - “Therefore I also have made you contemptible and base
Before all the people,
Because you have not kept My ways
But have shown partiality in the law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:12 - “And all nations will call you blessed,
For you will be a delightful land,”
Says the LORD of hosts.
N-NPN
Occurrences: 88 times in 87 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Nominative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - “since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - “In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the LORD said to her:

“Two nations are in your womb,
Two peoples shall be separated from your body;
One people shall be stronger than the other,
And the older shall serve the younger.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - “And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:29 - Let peoples serve you,
And nations bow down to you.
Be master over your brethren,
And let your mother's sons bow down to you.
Cursed be everyone who curses you,
And blessed be those who bless you!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - Also God said to him: “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 15:14 - “The people will hear and be afraid;
Sorrow will take hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - ‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - “Now if You kill these people as one man, then the nations which have heard of Your fame will speak, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - “As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - “take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.'
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:10 - “Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of the LORD, and they shall be afraid of you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - “Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people;[fn]
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And render vengeance to His adversaries;
He will provide atonement for His land and His people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - “that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:26 - So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the rituals of the God of the land; therefore He has sent lions among them, and indeed, they are killing them because they do not know the rituals of the God of the land.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:29 - However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:16 - And it happened, when all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations around us saw these things, that they were very disheartened in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that any man or woman who goes into the inner court to the king, who has not been called, he has but one law: put all to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 41:6 - Will your companions make a banquet[fn] of him?
Will they apportion him among the merchants?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 2:1 - Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:15 - The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made;
In the net which they hid, their own foot is caught.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:17 - The wicked shall be turned into hell,
And all the nations that forget God.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 9:19 - Arise, O LORD,
Do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged in Your sight.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 46:6 - The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved;
He uttered His voice, the earth melted.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 47:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples!
Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 49:1 - To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 65:7 - You who still the noise of the seas,
The noise of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:11 - Yes, all kings shall fall down before Him;
All nations shall serve Him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 72:17 - His name shall endure forever;
His name shall continue as long as the sun.
And men shall be blessed in Him;
All nations shall call Him blessed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:1 - A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, the nations have come into Your inheritance;
Your holy temple they have defiled;
They have laid Jerusalem in heaps.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 - Why should the nations say,
“Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight
The avenging of the blood of Your servants which has been shed.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 86:9 - All nations whom You have made
Shall come and worship before You, O Lord,
And shall glorify Your name.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 102:15 - So the nations shall fear the name of the LORD,
And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:2 - Why should the Gentiles say,
“So where is their God?”
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:10 - All nations surrounded me,
But in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:3 - Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion shall go forth the law,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:9 - “Be shattered, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces!
Give ear, all you from far countries.
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces;
Gird yourselves, but be broken in pieces.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the LORD; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:12 - And the people shall be like the burnings of lime;
Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 - Come near, you nations, to hear;
And heed, you people!
Let the earth hear, and all that is in it,
The world and all things that come forth from it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket,
And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All nations before Him are as nothing,
And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:5 - The coastlands saw it and feared,
The ends of the earth were afraid;
They drew near and came.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:4 - He will not fail nor be discouraged,
Till He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands shall wait for His law.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 - Let all the nations be gathered together,
And let the people be assembled.
Who among them can declare this,
And show us former things?
Let them bring out their witnesses, that they may be justified;
Or let them hear and say, “It is truth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:1 - “Listen, O coastlands, to Me,
And take heed, you peoples from afar!
The LORD has called Me from the womb;
From the matrix of My mother He has made mention of My name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:5 - My righteousness is near,
My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait upon Me,
And on My arm they will trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 52:15 - So shall He sprinkle[fn] many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:5 - Surely you shall call a nation you do not know,
And nations who do not know you shall run to you,
Because of the LORD your God,
And the Holy One of Israel;
For He has glorified you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:3 - The Gentiles shall come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:12 - For the nation and kingdom which will not serve you shall perish,
And those nations shall be utterly ruined.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:2 - The Gentiles shall see your righteousness,
And all kings your glory.
You shall be called by a new name,
Which the mouth of the LORD will name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 - Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are not gods?
But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:17 - “At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:2 - And you shall swear, ‘The LORD lives,'
In truth, in judgment, and in righteousness;
The nations shall bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they shall glory.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:18 - Therefore hear, you nations,
And know, O congregation, what is among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:22 - Thus says the LORD:

“Behold, a people comes from the north country,
And a great nation will be raised from the farthest parts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - “Egypt, Judah, Edom, the people of Ammon, Moab, and all who are in the farthest corners, who dwell in the wilderness. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength and my fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 - “And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has the LORD done so to this great city?'
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 - The nations have heard of your shame,
And your cry has filled the land;
For the mighty man has stumbled against the mighty;
They both have fallen together.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:58 - Thus says the LORD of hosts:

“The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken,
And her high gates shall be burned with fire;
The people will labor in vain,
And the nations, because of the fire;
And they shall be weary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations also heard of him;
He was trapped in their pit,
And they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, ‘We will be like the Gentiles, like the families in other countries, serving wood and stone.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Look! The house of Judah is like all the nations,'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:2 - “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples; now she is turned over to me; I shall be filled; she is laid waste.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - ‘I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:10 - ‘Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.'
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:23 - “And I will sanctify My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst; and the nations shall know that I am the LORD,” says the Lord GOD, “when I am hallowed in you before their eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:36 - “Then the nations which are left all around you shall know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken it, and I will do it.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:28 - “The nations also will know that I, the LORD, sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.” ' ”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:6 - “Gomer and all its troops; the house of Togarmah from the far north and all its troops—many people are with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:9 - “You will ascend, coming like a storm, covering the land like a cloud, you and all your troops and many peoples with you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:15 - “Then you will come from your place out of the far north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great company and a mighty army.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 38:16 - “You will come up against My people Israel like a cloud, to cover the land. It will be in the latter days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me, when I am hallowed in you, O Gog, before their eyes.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:4 - “You shall fall upon the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the peoples who are with you; I will give you to birds of prey of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:7 - “So I will make My holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them profane My holy name anymore. Then the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:23 - “The Gentiles shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity; because they were unfaithful to Me, therefore I hid My face from them. I gave them into the hand of their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 - “Let the nations be wakened, and come up to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:16 - For as you drank on My holy mountain,
So shall all the nations drink continually;
Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
And they shall be as though they had never been.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - Many nations shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
To the house of the God of Jacob;
He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths.”
For out of Zion the law shall go forth,
And the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:11 - Now also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye look upon Zion.”
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 - The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might;
They shall put their hand over their mouth;
Their ears shall be deaf.
Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:13 - Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts
That the peoples labor to feed the fire,[fn]
And nations weary themselves in vain?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:11 - “Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:22 - Yes, many peoples and strong nations
Shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem,
And to pray before the LORD.'
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:3 - “And it shall happen in that day that I will make Jerusalem a very heavy stone for all peoples; all who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces, though all nations of the earth are gathered against it.
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Occurrences: 2 times in 2 verses
Speech: Noun
Parsing: Vocative Plural Neuter
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:16 - The LORD is King forever and ever;
The nations have perished out of His land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations,
And declare it in the isles afar off, and say,
‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,
And keep him as a shepherd does his flock.'
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