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)


  • Jeremiah 49:14 - a rumour I have heard from the LORD and an ambassador unto the heathen is sent saying Gather ye together and come against her and rise up to the battle

  • Jeremiah 49:15 - thee small For lo I will make among the heathen and despised among men

  • Jeremiah 49:31 - Arise get you up nation unto the wealthy that dwelleth without care saith the LORD which have neither gates nor bars alone which dwell

  • Jeremiah 49:36 - shall not come And upon Elam from the four them toward all those winds from the four quarters of heaven and will scatter them toward all those winds and there shall be no nation shall not come whither the outcasts And upon Elam

  • Jeremiah 50:2 - Declare ye among the nations and publish and set up a standard and publish and conceal not say is taken Babylon are confounded Bel are broken in pieces Merodach are confounded her idols are broken in pieces her images

  • Jeremiah 50:3 - there cometh up a nation For out of the north against her which shall make her land desolate and none shall dwell both man and beast therein they shall remove they shall depart

  • Jeremiah 50:9 - For lo I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly nations of great country from the north and they shall set themselves in array against her from thence she shall be taken their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man none shall return in vain

  • Jeremiah 50:12 - confounded Your mother shall be sore you shall be ashamed she that bare behold the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness a dry land and a desert

  • Jeremiah 50:23 - cut asunder and broken How is the hammer of the whole earth become a desolation how is Babylon among the nations

  • Jeremiah 50:41 - Behold a people shall come from the north nation and a great kings and many shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth

  • Jeremiah 50:46 - At the noise of the taking of Babylon is moved the earth and the cry among the nations is heard

  • Jeremiah 51:7 - cup hath been a golden Babylon hand in the LORD'S drunken that made all the earth of her wine have drunken the nations are mad the nations

  • Jeremiah 51:20 - Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms

  • Jeremiah 51:27 - Set ye up a standard in the land blow the trumpet among the nations prepare among the nations against her call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat Minni and Ashchenaz appoint a captain to come up against her cause the horses caterpillers as the rough

  • Jeremiah 51:28 - Prepare against her the nations with the kings of the Medes the captains thereof and all the rulers thereof and all the land of his dominion

  • Jeremiah 51:41 - taken How is Sheshach surprised and how is the praise of the whole earth become an astonishment how is Babylon among the nations

  • Jeremiah 51:44 - And I will punish Bel in Babylon and I will bring forth that which he hath swallowed up out of his mouth shall not flow together and the nations any more unto him yea the wall in Babylon shall fall

  • Job 12:23 - He increaseth the nations and destroyeth them he enlargeth the nations and straiteneth

  • Job 34:29 - When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him whether it be done against a nation or against a man only

  • Joel 1:6 - For a nation is come up upon my land strong and without number are the teeth are the teeth of a lion and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion