Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H1471: גּוֹי (gôwy) Definition

Strong's number
H1471
Lemma
גּוֹי
Transliteration
gôwy
Pronunciation
go'-ee
Strong's definition
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts Gentile, heathen, nation, people. rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);

511 instances of the word גּוֹי gôwy (H1471)


  • Genesis 48:19 - refused And his father and said I know it my son I know it he also shall become a people and he also shall be great but truly brother his younger and he also shall be great than he and his seed shall become a multitude of nations

  • Habakkuk 1:5 - Behold ye among the heathen and regard and wonder and wonder a work for I will work in your days which ye will not believe though it be told

  • Habakkuk 1:6 - For lo I raise up the Chaldeans nation that bitter and hasty which shall march through the breadth of the land to possess the dwellingplaces

  • Habakkuk 1:17 - Shall they therefore empty their net continually to slay the nations and not spare

  • Habakkuk 2:5 - by wine Yea also because he transgresseth man he is a proud neither keepeth at home who enlargeth as hell his desire and is as death and cannot be satisfied but gathereth unto him all nations and heapeth unto him all people

  • Habakkuk 2:8 - Because thou hast spoiled nations many Because thou hast spoiled all the remnant of the people blood thee because of men's and for the violence of the land of the city and of all that dwell

  • Habakkuk 3:6 - He stood the earth he beheld and drove asunder the nations were scattered mountains and the everlasting did bow hills are everlasting his ways are everlasting

  • Habakkuk 3:12 - in indignation Thou didst march through the land in anger thou didst thresh the heathen

  • Haggai 2:7 - And I will shake all nations shall come and the desire all nations and I will fill this house with glory saith the LORD of hosts

  • Haggai 2:14 - Then answered Haggai and said So is this people and so is this nation before me saith the LORD and so is every work of their hands and that which they offer there is unclean

  • Haggai 2:22 - And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms and I will destroy the strength of kingdoms of the heathen And I will overthrow the chariots and their riders shall come down in them and the horses and their riders every one by the sword of his brother

  • Hosea 8:8 - is swallowed up Israel now shall they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure

  • Hosea 8:10 - Yea though they have hired among the nations now will I gather them and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes

  • Hosea 9:17 - will cast them away My God because they did not hearken unto him and they shall be wanderers among the nations

  • Isaiah 1:4 - Ah nation sinful a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers children that are corrupters they have forsaken the LORD they have provoked the Holy One of Israel they are gone away backward

  • Isaiah 2:2 - And it shall come to pass in the last days shall be established of the mountains house of the LORD'S in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills shall flow and all nations

  • Isaiah 2:4 - And he shall judge against nation and shall rebuke people many and they shall beat sword into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks shall not lift up against nation against nation sword neither shall they learn war

  • Isaiah 5:26 - And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth with speed swiftly and behold they shall come

  • Isaiah 9:1 - Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted and the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations

  • Isaiah 9:3 - Thou hast multiplied the nation and not increased the joy they joy before the joy in harvest and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil