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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:

Ezekiel 5:6: "into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that"
Ezekiel 5:7: "Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked"
Ezekiel 5:7: "neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about"
Ezekiel 5:8: "judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations."
Ezekiel 5:14: "Moreover I will make thee waste, among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all"
Ezekiel 5:15: "an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments"
Ezekiel 6:8: "that ye may have the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries."
Ezekiel 6:9: "And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken"
Ezekiel 7:24: "Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong"
Ezekiel 11:12: "my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about"
Ezekiel 11:16: "GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be"
Ezekiel 12:15: "am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse them in the countries."
Ezekiel 12:16: "and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither"
Ezekiel 16:14: "And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness,"
Ezekiel 19:4: " The nations also heard him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto"
Ezekiel 19:8: " Then the nations set him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net"
Ezekiel 20:9: "for my name's sake, be polluted before the heathen, among whom they"
Ezekiel 20:14: "for my name's sake, be polluted before the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out."
Ezekiel 20:22: "for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in whose sight I brought them forth."
Ezekiel 20:23: "unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;"
Ezekiel 20:32: "that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve"
Ezekiel 20:41: "wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen."
Ezekiel 22:4: "therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries."
Ezekiel 22:15: "And I will scatter thee among the heathen, thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of"
Ezekiel 22:16: "And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD."
Ezekiel 23:30: "these after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols."
Ezekiel 25:7: "upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish"
Ezekiel 25:8: "the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen;"
Ezekiel 25:10: "that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations."
Ezekiel 26:3: "I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves"
Ezekiel 26:5: "GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations."
Ezekiel 28:7: "strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty"
Ezekiel 28:25: "they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that"
Ezekiel 29:12: "and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
Ezekiel 29:15: "shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations."
Ezekiel 29:15: "for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations."
Ezekiel 30:3: "day; it shall be the time of the heathen."
Ezekiel 30:11: "and his people him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw"
Ezekiel 30:23: "And I will scatter among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries."
Ezekiel 30:26: "And I will scatter among the nations, and disperse them among the countries; and they shall know that"
Ezekiel 31:6: "dwelt all great nations."
Ezekiel 31:11: "I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness."
Ezekiel 31:12: "And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all"
Ezekiel 31:16: " I made the nations to shake of his fall, when I cast him down to hell"
Ezekiel 31:17: "that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen."
Ezekiel 32:2: "unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth"
Ezekiel 32:9: "people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not"
Ezekiel 32:12: "to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp"
Ezekiel 32:16: "is the lamentation her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt,"
Ezekiel 32:18: "and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with"









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