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:
Amos 6:1: "of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!"
Amos 6:14: "behold, against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD"
Amos 9:9: "the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not"
Amos 9:12: "the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name,"
Obadiah 1:1: "from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against"
Obadiah 1:2: "Behold, I have made among the heathen: thou art greatly despised."
Obadiah 1:15: "is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward"
Obadiah 1:16: "my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down,"
Micah 4:2: "And many nations and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain"
Micah 4:3: "people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords"
Micah 4:3: "their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up a sword"
Micah 4:3: "shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war"
Micah 4:7: "a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount"
Micah 4:11: "Now also many nations are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye"
Micah 5:8: "And the remnant of Jacob among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion"
Micah 5:15: "and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard."
Micah 7:16: " The nations shall see at all their might: they shall lay their hand"
Nahum 3:4: "harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families"
Nahum 3:5: "upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame."
Habakkuk 1:5: "Behold ye among the heathen, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work"
Habakkuk 1:6: "the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess"
Habakkuk 1:17: "and not spare continually to slay the nations?"
Habakkuk 2:5: "but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:"
Habakkuk 2:8: "thou many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil"
Habakkuk 3:6: "he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual"
Habakkuk 3:12: "the land thou didst thresh the heathen in anger."
Zephaniah 2:1: "Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;"
Zephaniah 2:5: "unto the inhabitants coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against"
Zephaniah 2:9: "desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess"
Zephaniah 2:11: "from his place, even all the isles of the heathen."
Zephaniah 2:14: "of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern"
Zephaniah 3:6: "I have cut off the nations: are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none"
Zephaniah 3:8: "for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon"
Haggai 2:7: "And I will shake nations, and the desire of all nations shall come:"
Haggai 2:7: "nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this"
Haggai 2:14: "people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so"
Haggai 2:22: "and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses"
Zechariah 1:15: "am very with the heathen that are at ease: for I"
Zechariah 1:21: "them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land"
Zechariah 2:8: "the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth"
Zechariah 2:11: "And many nations to the LORD in that day, and shall be"
Zechariah 7:14: "But I scattered them with a whirlwind among the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land"
Zechariah 8:13: "that as a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, and house of Israel;"
Zechariah 8:22: "Yea, many people nations shall come to seek the LORD"
Zechariah 8:23: "shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him"
Zechariah 9:10: "and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea"
Zechariah 12:3: "that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against"
Zechariah 12:9: "to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
Zechariah 14:2: "For I will gather nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city"
Zechariah 14:3: "go forth, those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle."
