goy H1471

גּוֹי (goy) means “nation” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

גּוֹי Hebrew · H1471 561 tagged occurrences in 511 verses

Pronunciation guide: go'-ee Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H1471A

גּוֹי · goy · nation

1) nation, people 1a) nation, people 1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people 1a2) of descendants of Abraham 1a3) of Israel 1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

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TBESH · H1471B

גּוֹיִם · go.yim · Goiim

People descended from Goy(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.1 § Goyim (Tidgal, king of)

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TBESH · H1471G

גּוֹי · goy · Gentile

1) nation, people 1a) nation, people 1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people 1a2) of descendants of Abraham 1a3) of Israel 1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.) 1c) Goyim? = "nations" Also named: ethnos (ἔθνος "Gentiles" G1484)

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TBESH · H1471H

גּוֹי · goy · (Harosheth)-hagoyim

Goyim (Tidgal, king of) Combined with cha.ro.shet (חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת "Harosheth" H2800)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

KJV glosses: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

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How translators render H1471

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
the nations	118
nations	93
among the nations	63
of the nations	56
nation	55
a nation	22
of nations	12
to the nations	10
the nation	7
then the nations	7
and nations	4
for the nations	4
from nation	3
from the nations	3
let the nations	3
like the nations	3
o nations	3
of goiim	3
the other nations	3
these nations	3
and the nations	2
as a nation	2
is the nation	2
nation is	2
on such a nation	2
over the nations	2
people	2
should the nations	2
you among the nations	2
a people	1
against the nations	1
among nations	1
and deprive your nation	1
and nation	1
another nation	1
any nation	1
are exiled among the nations	1
are the nations	1
as for the nation	1
at the nations	1
but the nation	1
by a nation	1
by driving out nations	1
by nation	1
by the nation	1
cause your nation	1
do the nations	1
from nationhood	1
from that nation	1
gave the nations	1
has a nation	1
he hands nations	1
he makes nations	1
i made the nations	1
in the nations	1
into a nation	1
is a nation	1
it	1
like a nation	1
like nations	1
nations nearby	1
nations of you	1
o nation	1
of doom for the nations	1
of my nation	1
of our foreign	1
of that nation	1
of the peoples	1
of these nations	1
of your nation	1
on the nations	1
or nation	1
peoples	1
rejoice o nations	1
so that the nations	1
so the nations	1
such a nation	1
the mother of nations	1
the nations themselves	1
the people	1
the people of each nation	1
the peoples	1
then in the nations	1
to foreigners	1
upon the nations	1
when the nations	1
with the nations	1
within their nations	1
you into a nation	1
your nation of its children	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
nations	43
of the heathen	37
among the heathen	32
nation	31
of the nations	31
the nations	30
the heathen	21
among the nations	19
a nation	16
of the gentiles	13
of nations	9
all nations	8
of all nations	6
the nation	6
among the gentiles	5
of all the nations	5
of these nations	5
unto the heathen	5
among all the nations	4
to the nations	4
upon the heathen	4
above all nations	3
and all nations	3
and the nations	3
in their nations	3
on such a nation	3
these nations	3
to the gentiles	3
against nation	2
all the heathen	2
all the nations	2
among all nations	2
and all the heathen	2
and all the nations	2
and nation	2
and the gentiles	2
and the heathen	2
before all the nations	2
concerning a nation	2
for a nation	2
from nation	2
let the heathen	2
more than the nations	2
o ye nations	2
of the nation	2
of those nations	2
shall all the nations	2
that nation	2
that the heathen	2
the gentiles	2
them among the heathen	2
then the nations	2
thy nations	2
to nation	2
to the heathen	2
unto the nations	2
wherefore should the heathen	2
ye nations	2
after their nations	1
against a nation	1
against all the nations	1
against her the nations	1
against the gentiles	1
against the nation	1
against those nations	1
against you a nation	1
all the people	1
all these nations	1
all ye heathen	1
all ye nations	1
also among the nations	1
and against all the nations	1
and also that nation	1
and became there a nation	1
and by these were the nations	1
and cause all the nations	1
and it came to pass when all the people	1
and made all the nations	1
and of all the heathen	1
and that nation	1
and there shall be no nation	1
and these nations	1
and what nation	1
any more and the heathen	1
any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations	1
as a nation	1
as the heathen	1
as the nations	1
at them thou shalt have all the heathen	1
because that this people	1
before him all nations	1
behold me behold me unto a nation	1
behold the nations	1
but the nations	1
even all nations	1
every nation	1
for in all these the nations	1
for the heathen	1
for the nation	1
for the nations	1
for these nations	1
for what nation	1
from all nations	1
from being a nation	1
from one nation	1
hath a nation	1
him a nation	1
how did these nations	1
howbeit every nation	1
i made the nations	1
if that nation	1
in him all nations	1
itself any more above the nations	1
let all the nations	1
like unto all the heathen	1
me among the nations	1
me unto the nations	1
nor in any nation	1
not among these nations	1
not and nations	1
now shall they be among the gentiles	1
o nation	1
of all the heathen	1
of all these nations	1
of any nation	1
of him upon all nations	1
of my people	1
of nation	1
of them and the heathen	1
of them unto the nations	1
of thy nation	1
of thyself the nations	1
out of all nations	1
out of the nation	1
out of the nations	1
over all nations	1
over me like as all the nations	1
over the heathen	1
over the nations	1
over thee unto a nation	1
people	1
shall a nation	1
shall all the heathen	1
shall be among the gentiles	1
since it became a nation	1
so the heathen	1
so these nations	1
so with any nation	1
such as never was since there was a nation	1
surely the heathen	1
than did the nations	1
than the heathen	1
that they should be no more a nation	1
that this nation	1
that we also may be like all the nations	1
thee a nation	1
thee among the heathen	1
thee over the nations	1
them also among the heathen	1
them among the nations	1
them of the nations	1
then the heathen	1
therefore the nations	1
thereof and against all these nations	1
they among the heathen	1
this nation	1
this people	1
this whole nation	1
those nations	1
though all the people	1
till all the people	1
to a nation	1
to a people	1
to all the nations	1
to him whom the nation	1
to it shall the gentiles	1
until all the people	1
until the people	1
unto all these nations	1
unto him all nations	1
unto us from among the heathen	1
unto you by lot these nations	1
upon all nations	1
upon all the heathen	1
upon all the nations	1
us among the heathen	1
us from among the heathen	1
us from the heathen	1
us like all the nations	1
was in all nations	1
wherein the nations	1
why do the heathen	1
with all the nations	1
with the heathen	1
with the nations	1
ye among the heathen	1
ye among the nations	1
ye now among the heathen	1
ye this among the gentiles	1
you among the heathen	1
you from all the nations	1

Verses containing H1471

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Deuteronomy 8:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
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Deuteronomy 9:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
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Deuteronomy 9:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
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Deuteronomy 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Deuteronomy 9:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
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Deuteronomy 11:23 · BSB · 2 occurrences
then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
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Deuteronomy 12:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
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Deuteronomy 12:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
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Deuteronomy 12:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
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Deuteronomy 15:6 · BSB · 2 occurrences
When the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
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Deuteronomy 17:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
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Deuteronomy 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
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Deuteronomy 18:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Though these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
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Deuteronomy 19:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
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Deuteronomy 20:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
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Deuteronomy 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
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Deuteronomy 26:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
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Deuteronomy 28:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 28:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
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Deuteronomy 28:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
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Deuteronomy 28:49 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
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Deuteronomy 28:50 · BSB · 1 occurrence
a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
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Deuteronomy 28:65 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
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Deuteronomy 29:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
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Source alternate reference: 29.15
Deuteronomy 29:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
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Source alternate reference: 29.17
Deuteronomy 29:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
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Source alternate reference: 29.23
Deuteronomy 30:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
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Deuteronomy 31:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
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Deuteronomy 32:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
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Deuteronomy 32:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
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Deuteronomy 32:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
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Deuteronomy 32:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
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Joshua 3:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
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Joshua 4:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
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Joshua 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Joshua 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
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Joshua 10:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
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Joshua 12:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
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Joshua 23:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
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Joshua 23:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
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Joshua 23:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.
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Joshua 23:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
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Joshua 23:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
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Joshua 23:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
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Judges 2:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
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Judges 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
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Judges 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
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Judges 3:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
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Judges 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
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Judges 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.
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