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)


  • Joel 2:17 - between the porch and the altar weep Let the priests the ministers O LORD and let them say Spare O LORD among the people and give not thine heritage to reproach should rule over that the heathen and let them say among the people Where is their God

  • Joel 2:19 - will answer Yea the LORD and say unto his people Behold I will send you corn and wine and oil and ye shall be satisfied therewith and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen

  • Joel 3:2 - I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered all nations my land and parted

  • Joel 3:8 - And I will sell of the children and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah And I will sell them to the Sabeans to a people far off for the LORD hath spoken

  • Joel 3:9 - Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles Prepare of war wake up the mighty men draw near let them come up let all the men of war

  • Joel 3:11 - Assemble yourselves and come all ye heathen round about and gather yourselves together to come down O LORD thither cause thy mighty ones

  • Joel 3:12 - be wakened and come up Let the heathen to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge Let the heathen round about

  • Joshua 3:17 - stood And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD on dry ground in the midst Jordan firm and all the Israelites over on dry ground clean until all the people over Jordan

  • Joshua 4:1 - were clean And it came to pass when all the people passed over Jordan saying that the LORD unto Joshua saying

  • Joshua 5:6 - forty years walked For the children of Israel in the wilderness were consumed till all the people of war which came out of Egypt because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD sware of the LORD that he would not shew them the land sware of the LORD unto their fathers that he would give them the land that floweth with milk and honey

  • Joshua 5:8 - And it came to pass when they had done all the people circumcising that they abode in their places in the camp till they were whole

  • Joshua 10:13 - stood still And the sun and the moon stayed had avenged until the people themselves upon their enemies Is not this written in the book of Jasher stayed And the sun in the midst of heaven and hasted not to go down day about a whole

  • Joshua 12:23 - The king of Dor in the coast of Dor one The king of the nations of Gilgal one

  • Joshua 23:3 - And ye have seen hath done all that the LORD your God unto all these nations because all that the LORD your God is he that hath fought

  • Joshua 23:4 - Behold I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from Jordan unto you by lot these nations that I have cut off sea even unto the great westward

  • Joshua 23:7 - That ye come not among these nations these that remain of the name of their gods among you neither make mention nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow

  • Joshua 23:9 - hath driven out For the LORD before nations you great and strong hath been able to stand but as for you no man before you unto this day

  • Joshua 23:12 - Else if ye do in any wise Else if ye do in any wise and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in

  • Joshua 23:13 - Know Know will no more that the LORD your God drive out any of these nations from before you but they shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until ye perish land from off this good hath given that the LORD your God

  • Judges 2:20 - was hot And the anger of the LORD against Israel and he said hath transgressed Because that this people my covenant which I commanded their fathers and have not hearkened unto my voice