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:
Psalms 79:10: "Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants"
Psalms 80:8: "a vine thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted"
Psalms 82:8: "thou shalt inherit all nations."
Psalms 83:4: "They have said, Come, from being a nation; from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no"
Psalms 86:9: "All nations thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord;"
Psalms 94:10: "He that chastiseth the heathen, he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge,"
Psalms 96:3: "Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people."
Psalms 96:10: "Say among the heathen reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not"
Psalms 98:2: "his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen."
Psalms 102:15: " So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth"
Psalms 105:13: "When they went from one nation from one nation another, from one kingdom to"
Psalms 105:13: "When they went from one nation another, from one kingdom to"
Psalms 105:44: "And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor of the people;"
Psalms 106:5: "that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance."
Psalms 106:27: "To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands."
Psalms 106:35: "But were mingled among the heathen, their works."
Psalms 106:41: "And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled"
Psalms 106:47: "and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph"
Psalms 110:6: "He shall judge among the heathen, the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many"
Psalms 111:6: "of his works, that he may give them the heritage of the heathen."
Psalms 113:4: "is high all nations, and his glory above the heavens."
Psalms 115:2: "Wherefore should the heathen Where is now their God?"
Psalms 117:1: "all ye nations: praise him, all ye people."
Psalms 118:10: "All nations but in the name of the LORD will I destroy"
Psalms 126:2: "with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for"
Psalms 135:10: "Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;"
Psalms 135:15: "The idols of the heathen and gold, the work of men's hands."
Psalms 147:20: "dealt with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise"
Psalms 149:7: "To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;"
Proverbs 14:34: "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people."
Isaiah 1:4: "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers,"
Isaiah 2:2: "and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto"
Isaiah 2:4: "And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords"
Isaiah 2:4: "into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against"
Isaiah 2:4: "lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."
Isaiah 5:26: "And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto them from the end"
Isaiah 9:1: "beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations."
Isaiah 9:3: "Thou hast multiplied the nation, increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy"
Isaiah 10:6: "I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take"
Isaiah 10:7: "it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few."
Isaiah 11:10: "for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious."
Isaiah 11:12: "And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed"
Isaiah 13:4: "a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth"
Isaiah 14:6: "with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,"
Isaiah 14:9: "it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations."
Isaiah 14:12: "of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!"
Isaiah 14:18: "All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house."
Isaiah 14:26: "that is stretched out upon all the nations."
Isaiah 14:32: "What shall one then answer of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion,"
Isaiah 16:8: "and the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come even unto"
