Strong's #1471: gowy (pronounced go'-ee)
rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}; apparently from the same root as 1465 (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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gôy
1) nation, people (noun masculine)
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (figuratively)
1c) Goyim? = "nations" (noun proper masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: apparently from the same root as H1465
Usage:
This word is used 559 times:
Genesis 10:5: "By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue,"
Genesis 10:5: "in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations."
Genesis 10:20: "after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations."
Genesis 10:31: "after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations."
Genesis 10:32: "of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided"
Genesis 10:32: "after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after"
Genesis 12:2: "And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
Genesis 14:1: "of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;"
Genesis 14:9: "of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch"
Genesis 15:14: "And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward"
Genesis 17:4: "thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations."
Genesis 17:5: "for a father of many nations have I made"
Genesis 17:6: "And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, nations of thee, and kings shall come out of"
Genesis 17:16: "of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of"
Genesis 17:20: "twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation."
Genesis 18:18: "shall surely become and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth"
Genesis 18:18: "and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed"
Genesis 20:4: "Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?"
Genesis 21:13: "of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed."
Genesis 21:18: "for I will make him a great nation."
Genesis 22:18: "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed"
Genesis 25:23: "And the LORD said nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated"
Genesis 26:4: "countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;"
Genesis 35:11: "Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of"
Genesis 35:11: "and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out"
Genesis 46:3: "for I will there make of thee a great nation:"
Genesis 48:19: "he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."
Exodus 9:24: "of Egypt since it became a nation."
Exodus 19:6: "of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak"
Exodus 32:10: "against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation."
Exodus 33:13: "and consider that this nation is thy people."
Exodus 34:10: "in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which"
Exodus 34:24: "For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders:"
Leviticus 18:24: "for in all these the nations are defiled which I"
Leviticus 18:28: "spew not you out it, as it spewed out the nations that were before"
Leviticus 20:23: "And ye shall not walk of the nation, which I cast out before"
Leviticus 25:44: "thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of"
Leviticus 26:33: "And I will scatter you among the heathen, a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate,"
Leviticus 26:38: "And ye shall perish among the heathen, of your enemies shall eat you up."
Leviticus 26:45: "I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God:"
Numbers 14:12: "them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than"
Numbers 14:15: "people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame"
Numbers 23:9: "the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations."
Numbers 24:8: "he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break their bones,"
Numbers 24:20: "and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish forever."
Deuteronomy 4:6: "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
Deuteronomy 4:7: "For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto"
Deuteronomy 4:8: "And what nation that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all"
Deuteronomy 4:27: "and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead"
Deuteronomy 4:34: "to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations,"
