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Lexicon :: Strong's H1471 - gôy

Aa
גּוֹי
Transliteration
gôy
Pronunciation
go'-ee
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (H1465)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 326e

Strong’s Definitions

גּוֹי gôwy, go'-ee; rarely (shortened) גֹּי gôy; apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 558x

The KJV translates Strong's H1471 in the following manner: nation (374x), heathen (143x), Gentiles (30x), people (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 558x
The KJV translates Strong's H1471 in the following manner: nation (374x), heathen (143x), Gentiles (30x), people (11x).
masculine noun

  1. nation, people

    1. nation, people

      1. usually of non-Hebrew people

      2. of descendants of Abraham

      3. of Israel

    2. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

      proper masculine noun

    3. Goyim? = "nations"

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גּוֹי gôwy, go'-ee; rarely (shortened) גֹּי gôy; apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
STRONGS H1471: Abbreviations
גּוֺי 561 noun masculineGenesis 12:2 nation, people (Late Hebrew id. Gentiles, Phoenician גו community, axvfg, Sabean גו id., DHMZMG 1883, 348) — ג׳ Genesis 12:2 121 times; suffix 1st person singular גּוֺיִ Zephaniah 2:9, גּוֺיֶ֑ךָ Psalm 106:5, גּוֺיֵךְ Kt Ezekiel 36:13, 14, 15 (Qr wrongly גּוֺיַיִךְ compare Co, who strike out Ezekiel 36:15); plural גּוֺיִם Genesis 10:5 410 times + Qr Genesis 25:23; Psalm 79:10 (Kt גיים) + 6 times Ezekiel (variant reading emended Co); construct גּוֺיֵי Genesis 18:18 + 8 times, גּוֺיֵ 2 Chronicles 32:13; Ezra 6:21 (compare Baer's notes); suffix גּוֺיֵהֶם Genesis 10:5, 20, 31, 32; —
1. nation, people Genesis 10:5 (twice in verse); Genesis 10:20, 31, 32 (twice in verse) (all P) +; Isaiah 2:2, 4 (twice in verse) = Micah 4:2, 3(twice in verse); Job 12:23 (twice in verse); Job 34:29; Proverbs 14:34; כֹּל גּוֺיֵי הָאָרֶץ Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4 (all J); Deuteronomy 28:1.
a. specifically of descendants of Abraham, גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 12:2; compare Genesis 18:18 (both J), גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:6, הֲמוֺן גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:4, 15 (all P); of Sarah גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:16 (P); of Ishmael גּוֺי Genesis 21:13, גָּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 21:18 (both E), גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 17:20 (P); of Jacob גּוֺי וּקְהַל גּוֺיִם Genesis 35:11 (P), גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 46:3 (E); of Ephraim מְלֹא הַגּ׳ Genesis 48:19 (J); of Moses גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Exodus 32:10 (J) compare Numbers 14:12 (J) Deuteronomy 9:14; of Jacob and Esau as two nations Genesis 25:23 (J).
b. definitely of Israel Exodus 19:6 (קָדוֺשׁ גּ׳) Exodus 33:13 (both J E), Deuteronomy 4:6 (הַגּוֺי הַגָּדוֺל הַזֶּה, said by heathen compare Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:8) see also Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 26:5 compare Psalm 33:12; Psalm 83:5 (said by enemies) Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 33:24; Ezekiel 37:22; in narrative Joshua 3:17; Joshua 4:1; Joshua 5:8 (JE), Joshua 5:6 (D), Joshua 10:13 (in poetry, no article); of Israel and Judah as two nations Ezekiel 35:10 (said by heathen) Ezekiel 37:22; of Judah Isaiah 26:2, 15 (twice in verse); compare Isaiah 58:2; Isaiah 60:22; Micah 4:7; once my people Zephaniah 2:9 (|| עַם); thy people Psalm 106:5 (i.e. of י׳), compare also Ezekiel 36:13, 14 (read Kt); especially of Israel and (or) Judah as sinful, rebellious Deuteronomy 32:28; Judges 2:20; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 10:6; Jeremiah 5:9, 29; Jeremiah 7:28; Jeremiah 9:8; Jeremiah 12:17; Ezekiel 2:3 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) Haggai 2:14; Malachi 3:9. — Note. This definite reference to Israel and (or) Judah is comparatively rare; in Hexateuch not P (yet see Genesis 17:4, 5, 6, 16; Genesis 35:11 P); seldom in exile & post-exile prophets; not Chronicles —
c. usually of non-Hebrew peoples Exodus 9:24; Exodus 34:10 (JE) Leviticus 25:44 (H) Numbers 14:15 (J) Deuteronomy 15:6 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 5:11; 1 Chronicles 14:17; 1 Chronicles 16:20; Isaiah 11:10, 12 + often; opposed to Israel as עם י׳ 2 Samuel 7:23; 1 Chronicles 17:21 (twice in verse) etc., see H5971 עם, compare also Numbers 23:9; note especially גְּלִיל הַגּוֺיִם Isaiah 8:23 [Isaiah 9:1] circle or district of the nations (see H1551 גָּלִיל); also חֲרשֶׁת הַגּ׳ Judges 4:2, 13, 16 Charosheth of the nations, & מֶלֶךְ גּוֺיִם לְגִלְגָּ֖ל Joshua 12:23 king of nations (peoples, tribes) belonging to Gilgal (Greek Version of the LXX Di to the district, i.e 'Galilee'); especially of these peoples as heathen: idolatrous Leviticus 8:24, 28 (P) Leviticus 20:23 (H) 1 Kings 14:24; 2 Kings 17:8, 11, 15, 26, 29 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 28:3; 32:13 +, Ezra 6:21; Ezekiel 5:6 +; hostile Genesis 15:14 (J) Leviticus 26:33, 38, 45 (H) Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 9:4, 5; Deuteronomy 18:9; 1 Chronicles 16:35; Jeremiah 5:15; Ezekiel 4:13 — Jeremiah Ezekiel, etc.; in simile Ezekiel 20:32; Ezekiel 25:8; sometimes || עַם Psalm 33:10; Psalm 33:12; Isaiah 11:10; Jeremiah 6:18, see also Isaiah 2:2, 4 compare with Micah 4:1, 3.
2. figurative of swarm of locusts Joel 1:6; of all species of beasts Zephaniah 2:14.
3. גּוֺיִם Genesis 14:1, 9 probably mutilated proper name see below.

גּוֺיִם proper name, of a people Genesis 14:1, 9, in phrase תִּדְעָל מֶלֶךְ גּוֺיִם Tid`al king of Goim; probably a Babylonian (Elamitic, etc.) name corrupted; H. Rawlinson proposes Gutî a people northeast of Babylonia COT on Genesis 14:1; also KGF258and elsewhere; compare also DlPa 233 f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:4; 10:5; 10:5; 10:5; 10:20; 10:20; 10:31; 10:31; 10:32; 10:32; 12:1; 12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 14:1; 14:1; 14:1; 14:9; 14:9; 15:14; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:6; 17:6; 17:15; 17:16; 17:16; 17:20; 18:18; 18:18; 18:18; 21:13; 21:18; 22:18; 25:23; 25:23; 26:4; 35:11; 35:11; 46:3; 48:19

Exodus

9:24; 19:6; 32:10; 33:13; 34:10

Leviticus

8:24; 8:28; 20:23; 25:44; 26:33; 26:38; 26:45

Numbers

14:12; 14:15; 23:9

Deuteronomy

4:6; 4:7; 4:8; 4:27; 4:34; 9:4; 9:5; 9:14; 15:6; 18:9; 26:5; 28:1; 32:28

Joshua

3:17; 4:1; 5:6; 5:8; 10:13; 12:23

Judges

2:20; 4:2; 4:13; 4:16

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

5:11; 14:24

2 Kings

17:8; 17:11; 17:15; 17:26; 17:29

1 Chronicles

14:17; 16:20; 16:35; 17:21

2 Chronicles

28:3; 32:13; 32:13

Ezra

6:21; 6:21

Job

12:23; 34:29

Psalms

33:10; 33:12; 33:12; 79:10; 83:5; 106:5; 106:5

Proverbs

14:34

Isaiah

1:4; 2:2; 2:2; 2:4; 2:4; 9:1; 10:6; 11:10; 11:10; 11:12; 26:2; 26:15; 58:2; 60:22

Jeremiah

5:9; 5:15; 5:29; 6:18; 7:28; 9:8; 12:17; 31:36; 33:24

Ezekiel

2:3; 4:13; 5:6; 20:32; 25:8; 35:10; 36:13; 36:13; 36:14; 36:14; 36:15; 36:15; 37:22; 37:22

Joel

1:6

Micah

4:1; 4:2; 4:3; 4:3; 4:7

Zephaniah

2:9; 2:9; 2:14

Haggai

2:14

Malachi

3:9

H1471

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Strong's Number H1471 matches the Hebrew גּוֹי (gôy),
which occurs 567 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 10 / 11 (Joe 2:19–Zec 12:3)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:19 - Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:2 - I will also gather all nations, H1471 and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, H1471 and parted my land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:8 - And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people H1471 far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:9 - Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; H1471 Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:11 - Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, H1471 and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 3:12 - Let the heathen H1471 be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen H1471 round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:1 - Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, H1471 to whom the house of Israel came!

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 6:14 - But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, H1471 O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:9 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, H1471 like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:12 - That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, H1471 which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, H1471 Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:2 - Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: H1471 thou art greatly despised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:15 - For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: H1471 as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:16 - For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen H1471 drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:2 - And many nations H1471 shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:3 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations H1471 afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation H1471 shall not lift up a sword against nation, H1471 neither shall they learn war any more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:7 - And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a H1471 strong nation: H1471 and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:11 - Now also many nations H1471 are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles H1471 in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:15 - And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, H1471 such as they have not heard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:16 - The nations H1471 shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations H1471 through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:5 - Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations H1471 thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:5 - Behold ye among the heathen, H1471 and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:6 - For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, H1471 which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:17 - Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:5 - Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, H1471 and heapeth unto him all people:

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:8 - Because thou hast spoiled many nations, H1471 all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:6 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; H1471 and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:12 - Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen H1471 in anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:1 - Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation H1471 not desired;

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation H1471 of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:9 - Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people H1471 shall possess them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:11 - The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 2:14 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: H1471 both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:6 - I have cut off the nations: H1471 their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 3:8 - Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, H1471 that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - And I will shake all nations, H1471 and the desire of all nations H1471 shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation H1471 before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; H1471 and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:15 - And I am very sore displeased with the heathen H1471 that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 1:21 - Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, H1471 which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:8 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations H1471 which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 2:11 - And many nations H1471 shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations H1471 whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:13 - And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, H1471 O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:22 - Yea, many people and H1471 strong nations H1471 shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 8:23 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, H1471 even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 9:10 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: H1471 and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:3 - And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people H1471 of the earth be gathered together against it.

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