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)


  • 2 Chronicles 32:23 - And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth

  • 2 Chronicles 33:2 - But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD like unto the abominations of the heathen had cast out of the LORD before the children of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 33:9 - made So Manasseh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to do worse than the heathen had destroyed whom the LORD before the children of Israel

  • 2 Chronicles 36:14 - Moreover all the chief of the priests and the people much transgressed very after all the abominations of the heathen and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem

  • 2 Kings 6:18 - And when they came down prayed of Elisha unto the LORD and said And he smote this people I pray thee with blindness And he smote I pray thee with blindness according to the word of Elisha

  • 2 Kings 16:3 - in the way of the kings of Israel the children to pass through the fire according to the abominations of the heathen cast out whom the LORD from before the children of Israel

  • 2 Kings 17:8 - in the statutes of the heathen cast out whom the LORD from before the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel which they had made

  • 2 Kings 17:11 - And there they burnt incense in all the high places as did the heathen carried away to provoke the LORD before them and wrought things wicked to anger to provoke the LORD

  • 2 Kings 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and his testimonies which he testified and went after vanity and became vain and went after the heathen that were round about had charged them concerning whom the LORD them that they should not do

  • 2 Kings 17:26 - Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria Wherefore they spake The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of Samaria know not the manner of the God of the land therefore he hath sent lions among them and behold they slay know not the manner of the God of the land

  • 2 Kings 17:29 - had made Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation gods of their own and put them in the houses of the high places had made which the Samaritans Howbeit every nation Howbeit every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt

  • 2 Kings 17:33 - the LORD their own gods and served after the manner of the nations whom they carried away

  • 2 Kings 17:41 - So these nations the LORD their graven images and served and their children's and their children's and their children's as did their fathers as did they unto this day

  • 2 Kings 18:33 - at all at all of the gods of the nations Hath any his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria

  • 2 Kings 19:12 - delivered Have the gods of the nations have destroyed them which my fathers as Gozan and Haran and Rezeph and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar

  • 2 Kings 19:17 - Of a truth LORD have destroyed the kings of Assyria the nations and their lands

  • 2 Kings 21:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD after the abominations of the heathen cast out of the LORD before the children of Israel

  • 2 Kings 21:9 - But they hearkened seduced not and Manasseh them to do more evil than did the nations destroyed whom the LORD before the children of Israel

  • 2 Samuel 7:23 - for a people even like Israel from the nations And what one for thy land went and their gods to redeem for a people to himself and to make him a name and to do for you great things and terrible for thy land before for a people to redeem to thee from Egypt from the nations and their gods

  • 2 Samuel 8:11 - did dedicate Which also king David unto the LORD with the silver and gold did dedicate of all nations which he subdued