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)


  • Judges 2:21 - I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations left which Joshua when he died

  • Judges 2:23 - left Therefore the LORD those nations without driving them out hastily neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua

  • Judges 3:1 - Now these are the nations left which the LORD to prove Israel by them even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan

  • Judges 4:2 - sold And the LORD them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan that reigned in Hazor the captain of whose host was Sisera which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles

  • Judges 4:13 - gathered together And Sisera all his chariots even nine hundred all his chariots of iron and all the people that were with him from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon

  • Judges 4:16 - But Barak pursued after the chariots after and after the host unto Harosheth of the Gentiles fell and after the host of Sisera upon the edge of the sword left and there was not a man

  • Lamentations 1:1 - sit solitary How doth the city she that was great of people how is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces how is she become tributary

  • Lamentations 1:3 - is gone into captivity Judah because of affliction and because of great servitude she dwelleth among the heathen she findeth no rest all her persecutors overtook her between the straits

  • Lamentations 1:10 - his hand hath spread out The adversary upon all her pleasant things for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary whom thou didst command entered into thy congregation

  • Lamentations 2:9 - are sunk into the ground Her gates he hath destroyed and broken her bars her king and her princes are among the Gentiles the law is no more her prophets also find no vision from the LORD

  • Lamentations 4:15 - depart ye it is unclean They cried depart depart touch not when they fled away and wandered they said among the heathen They shall no more sojourn

  • Lamentations 4:17 - as yet failed As for us our eyes help for our vain in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save

  • Lamentations 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the LORD was taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen

  • Leviticus 18:24 - Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things not ye yourselves in any of these things Defile for in all these the nations which I cast out before

  • Leviticus 18:28 - it as it spued out That the land also when ye defile it as it spued out the nations that were before

  • Leviticus 20:23 - in the manners of the nation which I cast out before you for they committed all these things and therefore I abhorred

  • Leviticus 25:44 - Both thy bondmen and bondmaids which thou shalt have shall be of the heathen that are round about you of them shall ye buy Both thy bondmen and bondmaids

  • Leviticus 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the heathen and will draw out after a sword you and your land shall be desolate and your cities waste

  • Leviticus 26:38 - And ye shall perish among the heathen shall eat you up and the land of your enemies

  • Leviticus 26:45 - But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen that I might be their God I am the LORD