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:
2 Chronicles 28:3: "his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before"
2 Chronicles 32:13: "the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver"
2 Chronicles 32:14: "was there among all of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that"
2 Chronicles 32:15: "no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver"
2 Chronicles 32:17: "against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people"
2 Chronicles 32:23: "so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth."
2 Chronicles 33:2: "of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before"
2 Chronicles 33:9: "and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before"
2 Chronicles 36:14: "transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted"
Ezra 6:21: "and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek"
Nehemiah 5:8: "our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell"
Nehemiah 5:9: "to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?"
Nehemiah 5:17: "and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about"
Nehemiah 6:6: "Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think"
Nehemiah 6:16: "our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen that were about us saw these things, they were much"
Nehemiah 13:26: "by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him,"
Job 12:23: "He increaseth the nations, them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth"
Job 12:23: "the nations, them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth"
Job 34:29: "who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:"
Psalms 2:1: "Why do the heathen and the people imagine a vain thing?"
Psalms 2:8: "Ask of thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession."
Psalms 9:5: "Thou hast rebuked the heathen, the wicked, thou hast put out their name forever and ever."
Psalms 9:15: " The heathen are sunk down that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot"
Psalms 9:17: "shall be turned and all the nations that forget God."
Psalms 9:19: "man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight."
Psalms 9:20: "Put them in fear, that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah."
Psalms 10:16: "is King and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land."
Psalms 18:43: "me from the strivings and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known"
Psalms 18:49: "Therefore will I give thanks among the heathen, and sing praises unto thy name."
Psalms 22:27: "the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before"
Psalms 22:28: "the kingdom and he is the governor among the nations."
Psalms 33:10: "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect."
Psalms 33:12: "Blessed is the nation God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance."
Psalms 43:1: "my cause against an ungodly nation: nation: O deliver me from the deceitful"
Psalms 44:2: "How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out."
Psalms 44:11: "us like sheep and hast scattered us among the heathen."
Psalms 44:14: "Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people."
Psalms 46:6: " The heathen raged, were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted."
Psalms 46:10: "I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
Psalms 47:8: "God reigneth the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne"
Psalms 59:5: "awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked"
Psalms 59:8: "O LORD, at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision."
Psalms 66:7: "his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah."
Psalms 67:2: "thy saving health among all nations."
Psalms 72:11: "kings before him: all nations shall serve"
Psalms 72:17: "as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed."
Psalms 78:55: "He cast out the heathen them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes"
Psalms 79:1: "A Psalm of Asaph. the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy"
Psalms 79:6: "Pour out thy wrath the heathen that have not known thee, and upon"
Psalms 79:10: "Wherefore should the heathen Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight"
