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:
Joshua 23:7: "That ye come not nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention"
Joshua 23:9: "hath driven out you great nations and strong: but as for you, no"
Joshua 23:12: "and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among"
Joshua 23:13: "more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be"
Judges 2:20: "Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which"
Judges 2:21: "any from before them of the nations which Joshua left"
Judges 2:23: "left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither"
Judges 3:1: "Now these are the nations the LORD left, to prove Israel"
Judges 4:2: "was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. in Harosheth of the Gentiles."
1 Samuel 8:5: "us a king to judge us like all the nations."
1 Samuel 8:20: "also like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before"
2 Samuel 7:23: "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God"
2 Samuel 7:23: "thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?"
2 Samuel 8:11: "that he had dedicated of all nations which he subdued;"
2 Samuel 22:44: "me from the strivings thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: a people which I knew not"
2 Samuel 22:50: "Therefore I will give thanks among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name."
1 Kings 4:31: "the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about."
1 Kings 11:2: "Of the nations the LORD said unto the children of Israel,"
1 Kings 14:24: "and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before"
1 Kings 18:10: "there is no nation or kingdom, whither my lord"
1 Kings 18:10: "He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they found thee not."
2 Kings 6:18: "Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness"
2 Kings 16:3: "to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out"
2 Kings 17:8: "And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before"
2 Kings 17:11: "they burnt incense the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before"
2 Kings 17:15: "against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom"
2 Kings 17:26: "to the king saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities"
2 Kings 17:29: " Howbeit every nation made of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which"
2 Kings 17:29: "Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation made of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which"
2 Kings 17:29: "of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein"
2 Kings 17:29: "of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation every nation in their cities wherein"
2 Kings 17:33: "and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom"
2 Kings 17:41: "So these nations the LORD, and served their graven images,"
2 Kings 18:33: "Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand"
2 Kings 19:12: "Have the gods of the nations them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan,"
2 Kings 19:17: "of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,"
2 Kings 21:2: "of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out before"
2 Kings 21:9: "more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before"
1 Chronicles 14:17: "the fear of him upon all nations."
1 Chronicles 16:20: "And when they went from nation from nation nation, and from one kingdom to"
1 Chronicles 16:20: "And when they went from nation nation, and from one kingdom to"
1 Chronicles 16:24: "Declare among the heathen; his marvelous works among all nations."
1 Chronicles 16:31: "rejoice: and let men say among the nations, The LORD reigneth."
1 Chronicles 16:35: "and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory"
1 Chronicles 17:21: "And what one nation in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God"
1 Chronicles 17:21: "of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations from before thy people, whom"
1 Chronicles 18:11: "that he brought from all these nations; from Edom, and from Moab,"
2 Chronicles 15:6: " And nation was destroyed and city of city: for God did vex"
2 Chronicles 15:6: "And nation was destroyed of nation, and city of city: for God did vex"
2 Chronicles 20:6: "not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none"
