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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Jeremiah 51:27 · BSB · 2 occurrences
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
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Jeremiah 51:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Prepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
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Jeremiah 51:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
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Jeremiah 51:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
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Lamentations 1:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
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Lamentations 1:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
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Lamentations 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
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Lamentations 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
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Lamentations 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
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Lamentations 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
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Lamentations 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
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Ezekiel 2:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.
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Ezekiel 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
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Ezekiel 5:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
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Ezekiel 5:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
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Ezekiel 5:7 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
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Ezekiel 5:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
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Ezekiel 5:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
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Ezekiel 5:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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Ezekiel 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Yet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
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Ezekiel 6:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
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Ezekiel 7:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
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Ezekiel 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
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Ezekiel 11:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
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Ezekiel 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
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Ezekiel 12:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
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Ezekiel 16:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 19:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 19:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.
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Ezekiel 20:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
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Ezekiel 20:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
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Ezekiel 20:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
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Ezekiel 20:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence
However, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
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Ezekiel 20:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
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Ezekiel 20:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
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Ezekiel 22:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
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Ezekiel 22:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
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Ezekiel 22:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
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Ezekiel 23:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence
have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
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Ezekiel 25:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
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Ezekiel 25:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
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Ezekiel 25:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
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Ezekiel 26:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
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Ezekiel 26:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
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Ezekiel 28:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
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Ezekiel 28:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
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Ezekiel 29:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
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Ezekiel 29:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Egypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.
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Ezekiel 30:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
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Ezekiel 30:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
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