H1471 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)


  • Ezekiel 6:8 - Yet will I leave a remnant that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations when ye shall be scattered through the countries

  • Ezekiel 6:9 - of you shall remember And they that escape me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives because I am broken heart which go a whoring which hath departed from me and with their eyes which go a whoring after their idols and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations

  • Amos 6:14 - But behold I will raise up O house of Israel saith the LORD the God of hosts against you a nation and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness

  • Nehemiah 6:16 - heard And it came to pass that when all our enemies saw thereof and all the heathen that were about us cast down these things they were much in their own eyes for they perceived of our God was wrought that this work

  • 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

  • Jeremiah 6:18 - Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation

  • Ezra 6:21 - did eat And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land to seek the LORD God of Israel

  • Jeremiah 6:22 - Thus saith the LORD Behold a people cometh country from the north nation and a great shall be raised from the sides country

  • Deuteronomy 7:1 - shall bring When the LORD thy God thee into the land shall bring to possess it and hath cast out nations greater before thee the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites seven nations greater and mightier

  • Zechariah 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew land desolate after them that no man passed through nor returned for they laid land the pleasant was desolate

  • Micah 7:16 - shall see The nations and be confounded at all their might they shall lay their hand upon their mouth their ears shall be deaf

  • Deuteronomy 7:17 - If thou shalt say in thine heart are more These nations than I how can I dispossess

  • Deuteronomy 7:22 - will put out And the LORD thy God nations those before and little and little thou mayest not consume them at once increase lest the beasts of the field

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 7:24 - Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen and they shall possess their houses to cease I will also make the pomp of the strong shall be defiled and their holy places

  • Jeremiah 7:28 - But thou shalt say unto them This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God nor receiveth correction is perished truth and is cut off from their mouth

  • 1 Samuel 8:5 - And said unto him Behold thou art old and thy sons walk not in thy ways now make us a king to judge us like all the nations

  • 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

  • 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

  • Zechariah 8:13 - And it shall come to pass that as ye were a curse among the heathen O house of Judah O house of Israel so will I save you and ye shall be a blessing fear be strong not but let your hands

  • Deuteronomy 8:20 - As the nations of the LORD destroyeth before your face destroyeth because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God

  • 1 Samuel 8:20 - That we also may be like all the nations may judge and that our king us and go out before us and fight our battles

  • Daniel 8:22 - Now that being broken shall stand up for it four for it four kingdoms out of the nation shall stand up but not in his power

  • Zechariah 8:22 - shall come people Yea many nations and strong to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the LORD

  • Zechariah 8:23 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts In those days even shall take hold it shall come to pass that ten of him that is a Jew out of all languages of the nations even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew Thus saith with you for we have heard that God

  • Deuteronomy 9:1 - Hear O Israel Thou art to pass over this day Jordan to go in to possess nations great and mightier than thyself cities great and fenced up to heaven

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 9:4 - Speak not thou in thine heart hath cast them out after that the LORD thy God from before Speak For my righteousness hath brought me in after that the LORD doth drive them out this land doth drive them out of these nations after that the LORD but for the wickedness from before

  • Deuteronomy 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go doth drive them out their land doth drive them out of these nations the LORD thy God but for the wickedness from before thee and that he may perform the word sware the LORD unto thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob

  • Psalms 9:5 - Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked their name thou hast put out for ever and ever

  • Amos 9:9 - For lo I will command and I will sift among all nations the house of Israel and I will sift in a sieve fall yet shall not the least grain upon the earth

  • Jeremiah 9:9 - Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD on such a nation be avenged shall not my soul

  • Zechariah 9:10 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem And I will cut off bow and the battle and he shall speak peace unto the heathen and his dominion even to sea even to sea and from the river even to the ends of the earth

  • Amos 9:12 - That they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen which are called by my name saith the LORD that doeth

  • Deuteronomy 9:14 - Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater

  • Psalms 9:15 - are sunk down The heathen in the pit that they made in the net which they hid taken is their own foot

  • Jeremiah 9:16 - I will scatter them also among the heathen have known whom neither they nor their fathers and I will send after a sword them till I have consumed

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

  • Psalms 9:17 - shall be turned The wicked into hell and all the nations that forget God

  • Psalms 9:19 - Arise O LORD prevail be judged let the heathen in thy sight

  • Psalms 9:20 - Put O LORD them in fear may know that the nations themselves to be but men Selah

  • Exodus 9:24 - So there was hail and fire mingled So there was hail grievous very such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation

  • Jeremiah 9:26 - Egypt and Judah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all that are in the utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart

  • Jeremiah 10:2 - Thus saith the LORD not the way for the heathen Learn at the signs of heaven and be not dismayed and be not dismayed for the heathen at them

  • Genesis 10:5 - divided in By these were the isles in their nations their lands every one after his tongue after their families in their nations

  • Isaiah 10:6 - nation him against an hypocritical I will send and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and to tread them down like the mire of the streets

  • Isaiah 10:7 - Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think to destroy not so neither doth his heart and cut off nations not a few

  • Jeremiah 10:7 - Who would not fear thee O King men of the nations for to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms

  • Jeremiah 10:10 - But the LORD God is the true God he is the living king and an everlasting at his wrath shall tremble the earth shall not be able to abide and the nations his indignation

  • 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

  • Psalms 10:16 - The LORD is King for ever and ever are perished the heathen out of his land

  • Genesis 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham after their families after their tongues in their countries and in their nations

  • Jeremiah 10:25 - Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not and upon the families not on thy name that call and devoured Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his habitation desolate

  • Genesis 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem after their families after their tongues in their lands after their nations

  • Genesis 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations and by these were the nations divided and by these were the nations in the earth after the flood

  • 1 Kings 11:2 - Of the nations said concerning which the LORD unto the children of Israel Ye shall not go in Ye shall not go in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods clave Solomon unto these in love

  • Isaiah 11:10 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse which shall stand for an ensign of the people to it shall the Gentiles seek and his rest shall be glorious

  • Ezekiel 11:12 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD in my statutes for ye have not walked after the manners but have done after the manners of the heathen that are round about but have done

  • Isaiah 11:12 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel the dispersed of Judah and gather together from the four corners of the earth

  • Ezekiel 11:16 - Therefore say Therefore say the Lord GOD Although I have cast them far off among the heathen and although I have scattered in the countries sanctuary yet will I be to them as a little in the countries where they shall come

  • Daniel 11:23 - And after the league made with him he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and shall become strong with a small people

  • Deuteronomy 11:23 - drive out Then will the LORD all these nations from before drive out all these nations greater and mightier

  • Daniel 12:1 - And at that time stand up shall Michael prince the great stand up for the children of thy people and there shall be And at that time of trouble and there shall be and there shall be such as never was since there was a nation And at that time And at that time shall be delivered of thy people every one that shall be found written in the book

  • Deuteronomy 12:2 - Ye shall utterly Ye shall utterly all the places which served wherein the nations which ye shall possess their gods mountains upon the high and upon the hills tree and under every green

  • Genesis 12:2 - And I will make of thee nation a great and I will bless great thy name and thou shalt be a blessing

  • Zechariah 12:3 - And in that day will I make Jerusalem stone a burdensome for all people all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces themselves with it shall be cut in pieces be gathered together though all the people of the earth

  • Zechariah 12:9 - And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem

  • Ezekiel 12:15 - And they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall scatter them among the nations and disperse them in the countries

  • Ezekiel 12:16 - But I will leave a few of them from the sword from the famine and from the pestilence that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come and they shall know that I am the LORD

  • Jeremiah 12:17 - But if they will not obey I will utterly that nation I will utterly and destroy saith the LORD

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

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

  • Deuteronomy 12:29 - shall cut off When the LORD thy God the nations thee whither thou goest them and thou succeedest from before them and thou succeedest them and dwellest in their land

  • Deuteronomy 12:30 - Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following by following that they be destroyed from before thee and that thou enquire not after their gods saying serve How did these nations not after their gods even so will I do likewise

  • Isaiah 13:4 - The noise of a multitude in the mountains like people as of a great The noise a tumultuous of the kingdoms of nations gathered together the LORD of hosts mustereth of hosts of the battle

  • Nehemiah 13:26 - cause to sin Did not Solomon him king of Israel nations by these things yet among many him king like him who was beloved and God made and God him king of Israel nevertheless even him cause to sin women did outlandish

  • Genesis 14:1 - And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar Arioch king of Ellasar Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of nations

  • Zechariah 14:2 - For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle shall be taken and the city rifled and the houses and the women shall go forth and half and the city into captivity and the residue of the people shall not be cut off and the city

  • Zechariah 14:3 - go forth Then shall the LORD and fight against those nations as when and fight as when of battle

  • Isaiah 14:6 - He who smote the people in wrath stroke with a continual he that ruled in anger the nations is persecuted and none hindereth

  • Genesis 14:9 - With Chedorlaomer king of Elam and with Tidal king of nations and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar four king with five

  • Isaiah 14:9 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee even all the chief ones of the earth it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations

  • Isaiah 14:12 - How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer son of the morning how art thou cut down to the ground which didst weaken the nations

  • Numbers 14:12 - I will smite them with the pestilence and disinherit them and will make nation of thee a greater and mightier

  • Zechariah 14:14 - And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem shall be gathered together and the wealth of all the heathen round about gold and silver and apparel abundance in great

  • Numbers 14:15 - Now if thou shalt kill all this people man as one of thee will speak then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak

  • Zechariah 14:16 - And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from to year to year to worship the King the LORD of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles

  • 1 Chronicles 14:17 - went out And the fame of David into all lands and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations

  • Isaiah 14:18 - All the kings of the nations even all of them lie in glory every one in his own house

  • Zechariah 14:18 - And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain there shall be the plague will smite wherewith the LORD the heathen go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles

  • Zechariah 14:19 - This shall be the punishment of Egypt This shall be the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles

  • Jeremiah 14:22 - Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain or can the heavens give showers art not thou he O LORD our God therefore we will wait upon thee for thou hast made

  • 1 Kings 14:24 - And there were also sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations cast out which the LORD before the children of Israel

  • Isaiah 14:26 - This is the purpose This is the purpose upon the whole earth and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations

  • Isaiah 14:32 - What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation That the LORD hath founded Zion shall trust and the poor of his people

  • Proverbs 14:34 - Righteousness exalteth a nation is a reproach to any people but sin

  • Deuteronomy 15:6 - For the LORD thy God blesseth thee as he promised but thou shalt not borrow nations over many but thou shalt not borrow and thou shalt reign nations over many and thou shalt reign

  • 2 Chronicles 15:6 - was destroyed And nation And nation and city and city for God did vex them with all adversity