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:
Deuteronomy 4:34: "and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders,"
Deuteronomy 4:38: "To drive out nations thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in,"
Deuteronomy 7:1: "goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites,"
Deuteronomy 7:1: "and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier"
Deuteronomy 7:17: "thou shalt say These nations are more than I; how can"
Deuteronomy 7:22: "those nations before thee by little and little:"
Deuteronomy 8:20: " As the nations which destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish;"
Deuteronomy 9:1: "this day, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities"
Deuteronomy 9:4: "this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out"
Deuteronomy 9:5: "but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before"
Deuteronomy 9:14: "their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater"
Deuteronomy 11:23: "all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater"
Deuteronomy 11:23: "from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than"
Deuteronomy 12:2: "the places, wherein the nations which"
Deuteronomy 12:29: "shall cut off the nations from before thee, whither"
Deuteronomy 12:30: "not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods?"
Deuteronomy 15:6: "he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign"
Deuteronomy 15:6: "borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign"
Deuteronomy 17:14: "a king over me, like as all the nations that are about"
Deuteronomy 18:9: "to do after the abominations of those nations."
Deuteronomy 18:14: "For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened"
Deuteronomy 19:1: "hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD"
Deuteronomy 20:15: "are not of the cities of these nations."
Deuteronomy 26:5: "with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:"
Deuteronomy 26:19: "thee high all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name,"
Deuteronomy 28:1: "will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:"
Deuteronomy 28:12: "of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow."
Deuteronomy 28:36: "thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers"
Deuteronomy 28:49: "The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end"
Deuteronomy 28:49: "from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue"
Deuteronomy 28:50: " A nation of fierce which shall not regard the person of the old,"
Deuteronomy 28:65: "And among these nations neither shall the sole of thy foot have"
Deuteronomy 29:16: "and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;"
Deuteronomy 29:18: "and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root"
Deuteronomy 29:24: "Even all nations Wherefore hath the LORD done thus"
Deuteronomy 30:1: "them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God"
Deuteronomy 31:3: "will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua,"
Deuteronomy 32:8: "When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds"
Deuteronomy 32:21: "a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation."
Deuteronomy 32:28: "For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding"
Deuteronomy 32:43: "Rejoice, O ye nations, for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render"
Joshua 3:17: "on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over"
Joshua 4:1: "And it came to pass, when the people were clean passed over Jordan,"
Joshua 5:6: "in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt,"
Joshua 5:8: "circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till"
Joshua 10:13: "stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this"
Joshua 12:23: "of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;"
Joshua 23:3: "hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD"
Joshua 23:4: "I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from"
Joshua 23:4: "from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea"
