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

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

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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Jeremiah 16:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
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Jeremiah 18:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At any time I might announce that a nation or kingdom will be uprooted, torn down, and destroyed.
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Jeremiah 18:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But if that nation I warned turns from its evil, then I will relent of the disaster I had planned to bring.
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Jeremiah 18:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And if at another time I announce that I will build up and establish a nation or kingdom,
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Jeremiah 18:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
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Jeremiah 22:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
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Jeremiah 25:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.
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Jeremiah 25:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And this whole land will become a desolate wasteland, and these nations will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years.
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Jeremiah 25:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But when seventy years are complete, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, declares the LORD, and I will make it an everlasting desolation.
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Jeremiah 25:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will bring upon that land all the words I have pronounced against it, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.
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Jeremiah 25:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For many nations and great kings will enslave them, and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands.’”
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Jeremiah 25:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
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Jeremiah 25:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
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Jeremiah 25:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The tumult will resound to the ends of the earth because the LORD brings a charge against the nations. He brings judgment on all mankind and puts the wicked to the sword,’” declares the LORD.
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Jeremiah 25:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”
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Jeremiah 26:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
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Jeremiah 27:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
All nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
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Jeremiah 27:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
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Jeremiah 27:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
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Jeremiah 27:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
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Jeremiah 28:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.
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Jeremiah 28:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”
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Jeremiah 29:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
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Jeremiah 29:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
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Jeremiah 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
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Jeremiah 31:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
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Jeremiah 31:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
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Jeremiah 31:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
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Jeremiah 33:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
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Jeremiah 33:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
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Jeremiah 36:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
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Jeremiah 43:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,
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Jeremiah 44:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
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Jeremiah 46:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
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Jeremiah 46:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
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Jeremiah 46:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
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Jeremiah 48:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
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Jeremiah 49:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
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Jeremiah 49:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
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Jeremiah 49:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
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Jeremiah 49:36 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
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Jeremiah 50:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
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Jeremiah 50:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
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Jeremiah 50:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
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Jeremiah 50:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
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Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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Jeremiah 50:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
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Jeremiah 50:46 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
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Jeremiah 51:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
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Jeremiah 51:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
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