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:
Zechariah 14:14: "at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,"
Zechariah 14:16: "that every one of all the nations which came against Jerusalem"
Zechariah 14:18: "wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up"
Zechariah 14:19: "of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep"
Malachi 1:11: "even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense"
Malachi 1:11: "offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts."
Malachi 1:14: "of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen."
Malachi 3:9: "for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation."
Malachi 3:12: "And all nations for ye shall be a delightful"
