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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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Page 5 / 11 (Psa 111:6–Isa 43:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 111:6 -

Kaph

He has declared to His people the power of His works,

Lamedh

In giving them an inheritance of the nations H1471.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 113:4 -

Yahweh is high above all nations H1471;

His glory is above the heavens.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:2 -

Why should the nations H1471 say,

“Where, now, is their God?”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 117:1 -

Praise Yahweh, all nations H1471;

Laud Him, all peoples!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 118:10 -

All nations H1471 surrounded me;

In the name of Yahweh I will surely cut them off.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 126:2 -

Then our mouth was filled with laughter

And our tongue with shouts of joy;

Then they said among the nations H1471,

“Yahweh has done great things for them.”

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:10 -

[fn]He struck many nations H1471

And slew mighty kings,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 -

The idols of the nations H1471 are silver and gold,

The work of man’s hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 147:20 -

He has not done so with any nation H1471;

So as for His judgments, they have not known them.

[fn]Praise Yah!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7 -

To execute vengeance on the nations H1471

And punishments on the peoples,

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 14:34 -

Righteousness exalts a nation H1471,

But sin is a disgrace to any people.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 -

Alas, sinful nation H1471,

People heavy with iniquity,

Seed of evildoers,

Sons who act corruptly!

They have forsaken Yahweh;

They have spurned the Holy One of Israel;

They have [fn]become estranged [fn]from Him.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:2 -

Now it will be that

In the last days

The mountain of the house of Yahweh

Will be established [fn]as the head of the mountains,

And will be lifted up above the hills;

And all the nations H1471 will stream to it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:4 -

And He will judge between the nations H1471,

And will [fn]render decisions for many peoples;

And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

Nation H1471 will not lift up sword against nation H1471,

And never again will they learn war.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:26 -

He will also lift up a standard to the [fn]distant nations H1471,

And will whistle for it from the ends of the earth;

And behold, it will come with speed swiftly.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:1 -

[fn]But there will be no more gloom for her who was in anguish; in earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali with contempt, but later on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the [fn]Gentiles H1471.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:3 -

You shall multiply the nation H1471,

You shall [fn]make great [fn]their gladness;

They will be glad in Your presence

As with the gladness [fn]of harvest,

As [fn]men rejoice when they divide the spoil.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:6 -

I send it against a godless nation H1471

And command it against the people of My fury

To capture spoil and to seize plunder,

And to [fn]trample them down like mud in the streets.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:7 -

But it does not intend to act in this way,

And it does not think in its heart in this way,

Rather, what is in its heart is to destroy

And to cut off [fn]many nations H1471.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:10 -

Then it will be in that day,

That the nations H1471 will seek the root of Jesse,

Who will stand as a [fn]standard for the peoples;

And His resting place will be [fn]glorious.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 -

And He will lift up a standard for the nations H1471

And assemble the banished ones of Israel,

And will gather the scattered of Judah

From the four corners of the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:4 -

A sound of tumult on the mountains,

Like that of many people!

A sound of the rumbling of kingdoms,

Of nations H1471 gathered together!

Yahweh of hosts is mustering the host for battle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:6 -

Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,

Which had dominion over the nations H1471 in anger with unrestrained persecution.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:9 -

“Sheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come;

It wakens for you the [fn]spirits of the dead, all the [fn]leaders of the earth;

It raises all the kings of the nations H1471 from their thrones.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 -

“How you have fallen from heaven,

O [fn]star of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the earth,

You who have weakened the nations H1471!

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:18 -

“All the kings of the nations H1471 lie in glory,

Each in his own [fn]place.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:26 - “This is the counsel that is counseled against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations H1471.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:32 -

“How then will one answer the messengers of the nation H1471?

That Yahweh has founded Zion,

And the afflicted of His people will take refuge in it.”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 16:8 -

For the fields of Heshbon have languished, the vines of Sibmah as well;

The lords of the nations H1471 have trampled down its choice clusters

Which reached as far as Jazer and wandered to the deserts;

Its tendrils spread themselves out and passed over the sea.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:2 -

Which sends envoys by the sea,

Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.

Go, swift messengers, to a nation H1471 [fn]tall and smooth,

To a people feared [fn]far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation H1471

Whose land the rivers divide.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 18:7 -

At that time a gift of homage will be brought to Yahweh of hosts

[fn]From a people [fn]tall and smooth,

Even from a people feared [fn]far and wide,

A powerful and oppressive nation H1471,

Whose land the rivers divide

To the place of the name of Yahweh of hosts, even Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:3 -

And were on many waters.

The [fn]grain of [fn]Shihor, the harvest of the Nile was her revenue;

And she was the nations’ H1471 gain.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:3 -

Therefore a strong people will glorify You;

Towns of ruthless nations H1471 will fear You.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 -

And on this mountain He will swallow up the [fn]covering which is over all peoples,

Even the veil which is [fn]stretched over all nations H1471.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:2 -

“Open the gates, that the righteous nation H1471 may enter,

The one that keeps faithfulness.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:15 -

You have increased the nation H1471, O Yahweh;

You have increased the nation H1471, You are glorified;

You have extended all the borders of the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:7 -

And it will be that the multitude of all the nations H1471 who wage war against [fn]Ariel,

Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,

Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:8 -

And it will be as when a hungry man dreams

And behold, he is eating;

But he awakens, and his soul is empty,

Or as when a thirsty man dreams

And behold, he is drinking,

But he awakens, and behold, he is faint,

And his soul is not quenched.

Thus the multitude of all the nations H1471 will be

Who wage war against Mount Zion.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:28 -

His breath is like an overflowing torrent,

Which reaches to the neck,

To shake the nations H1471 back and forth in a [fn]sieve of worthlessness,

And to put in the jaws of the peoples the bridle which staggers one to ruin.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:3 -

At the sound of the tumult peoples flee;

At the lifting up of Yourself nations H1471 scatter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:1 -

Draw near, O nations H1471, to hear; and pay attention, O peoples!

Let the earth hear, as well as its fullness, the world and all that springs from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:2 -

For the indignation of Yahweh is against all the nations H1471,

And His wrath against all their [fn]hosts;

He has [fn]devoted them to destruction;

He has given them over to slaughter.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:18 - Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.” Has any one of the gods of the nations H1471 delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:12 - ‘Did the gods of [fn]those nations H1471, which my fathers have brought to ruin, deliver them, even Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 -

Behold, the nations H1471 are like a drop from a bucket,

And are counted as a speck of dust on the scales;

Behold, He lifts up the coastlands like fine dust.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 -

All the nations H1471 are as nothing before Him;

They are counted by Him as non-existent and utterly formless.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:2 -

“Who has awakened one from the east

Whom He calls in righteousness to His [fn]feet?

He gives up nations H1471 before him

And [fn]has dominion over kings.

He makes them like dust with his sword,

As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:1 -

“Behold, My Servant, whom I [fn]uphold;

My chosen one in whom My soul is well-pleased.

I have put My Spirit upon Him;

He will bring forth justice to the [fn]nations H1471.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:6 -

“I am Yahweh, I have called You in righteousness;

I will also take hold of You by the hand and guard You,

And I will give You as a covenant to the people,

As a light to the nations H1471,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 43:9 -

All the nations H1471 have gathered together

So that the peoples may be assembled.

Who among them can declare this

And make us hear the former things?

Let them present their witnesses that they may be justified,

Or let them hear and say, “It is true.”


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