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:
Isaiah 66:19: "those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw"
Isaiah 66:19: "and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles."
Isaiah 66:20: "for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters,"
Jeremiah 1:5: "out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations."
Jeremiah 1:10: "set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down,"
Jeremiah 2:11: " Hath a nation changed which are yet no gods? but my people have changed"
Jeremiah 3:17: "the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD,"
Jeremiah 3:19: "a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not"
Jeremiah 4:2: "in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory."
Jeremiah 4:7: "is come up and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place"
Jeremiah 4:16: "Make ye mention to the nations; publish against Jerusalem, that watchers come"
Jeremiah 5:9: "my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 5:15: "Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel,"
Jeremiah 5:15: "saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient"
Jeremiah 5:15: "is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language"
Jeremiah 5:15: "nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest"
Jeremiah 5:29: "my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 6:18: "Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what"
Jeremiah 6:22: "from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides"
Jeremiah 7:28: "But thou shalt say unto is a nation that obeyeth not the voice"
Jeremiah 9:9: "my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?"
Jeremiah 9:16: "I will scatter them also among the heathen, neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send"
Jeremiah 9:26: "in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel"
Jeremiah 10:2: "Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs"
Jeremiah 10:2: "at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them."
Jeremiah 10:7: "would not thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all"
Jeremiah 10:7: "forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none"
Jeremiah 10:10: "at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation."
Jeremiah 10:25: "Pour out thy fury the heathen that know thee not, and upon"
Jeremiah 12:17: "I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 14:22: "Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers?"
Jeremiah 16:19: "and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends"
Jeremiah 18:7: "At what instant I shall speak a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down,"
Jeremiah 18:8: "If that nation, whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil,"
Jeremiah 18:9: "And at what instant I shall speak a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant"
Jeremiah 18:13: "the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin"
Jeremiah 22:8: "And many nations by this city, and they shall say every man"
Jeremiah 25:9: "thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment,"
Jeremiah 25:11: "a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon"
Jeremiah 25:12: "that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith the LORD, for"
Jeremiah 25:13: "hath prophesied against all the nations."
Jeremiah 25:14: "For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also:"
Jeremiah 25:15: "at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I"
Jeremiah 25:17: "hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom"
Jeremiah 25:31: "for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh;"
Jeremiah 25:32: "Behold, evil shall go forth from nation from nation to nation, and a great"
Jeremiah 25:32: "shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up"
Jeremiah 26:6: "city a curse to all the nations of the earth."
Jeremiah 27:7: "And all nations him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time"
Jeremiah 27:7: "come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him."
