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:
Jeremiah 27:8: "And it shall come to pass, that the nation which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar"
Jeremiah 27:8: "of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword,"
Jeremiah 27:11: " But the nations that their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,"
Jeremiah 27:13: "the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve"
Jeremiah 28:11: "from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years."
Jeremiah 28:14: "the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king"
Jeremiah 29:14: "your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places"
Jeremiah 29:18: "and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven"
Jeremiah 30:11: "I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet"
Jeremiah 31:7: "for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD,"
Jeremiah 31:10: "Hear the word O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off,"
Jeremiah 31:36: "of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever."
Jeremiah 33:9: "a praise and an honor before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear"
Jeremiah 33:24: "my people, that they should be no more a nation before"
Jeremiah 36:2: "Judah, and against all the nations, from the day I spoke unto"
Jeremiah 43:5: "that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven,"
Jeremiah 44:8: "ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?"
Jeremiah 46:1: "Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles;"
Jeremiah 46:12: " The nations have heard and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man"
Jeremiah 46:28: "I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not"
Jeremiah 48:2: "against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. from being a nation. Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen;"
Jeremiah 49:14: "the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against"
Jeremiah 49:15: "lo, thee small among the heathen, and despised among men."
Jeremiah 49:31: "get you up the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD,"
Jeremiah 49:36: "those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts"
Jeremiah 50:2: "Declare ye among the nations, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not:"
Jeremiah 50:3: "For out of the north a nation against her, which shall make"
Jeremiah 50:9: "Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array"
Jeremiah 50:12: "you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindmost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert."
Jeremiah 50:23: "is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!"
Jeremiah 50:41: "from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be raised up"
Jeremiah 50:46: "the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations."
Jeremiah 51:7: "that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore"
Jeremiah 51:7: "have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad."
Jeremiah 51:20: "of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;"
Jeremiah 51:27: "blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together"
Jeremiah 51:27: "the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms"
Jeremiah 51:28: "Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes, the captains"
Jeremiah 51:41: "is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!"
Jeremiah 51:44: "and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together"
Lamentations 1:1: "how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!"
Lamentations 1:3: "and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no"
Lamentations 1:10: "her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command"
Lamentations 2:9: "her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also"
Lamentations 4:15: "and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn"
Lamentations 4:17: "in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save"
Lamentations 4:20: "we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen."
Ezekiel 2:3: "of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers"
Ezekiel 4:13: "their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive"
Ezekiel 5:5: "is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about"
