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)


  • Malachi 1:11 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down shall be great for my name among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered for my name offering and a pure shall be great for my name among the Gentiles saith the LORD of hosts

  • Malachi 1:14 - But cursed be the deceiver which hath in his flock a male and voweth and sacrificeth a corrupt thing unto the Lord King for I am a great saith the LORD of hosts and my name is dreadful among the heathen

  • Malachi 3:9 - with a curse Ye are cursed for ye have robbed me even this whole nation

  • Malachi 3:12 - shall call you blessed And all nations land for ye shall be a delightsome saith the LORD of hosts

  • Micah 4:2 - shall come nations And many and say shall come and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD and to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways shall come in his paths of Zion shall go forth for the law and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem

  • Micah 4:3 - And he shall judge people among many and rebuke against nation strong afar off and they shall beat a sword into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks shall not lift up against nation against nation a sword neither shall they learn war

  • Micah 4:7 - And I will make her that halted a remnant and her that was cast far off nation a strong shall reign and the LORD over them in mount Zion from henceforth even for ever

  • Micah 4:11 - are gathered nations Now also many against thee that say Let her be defiled look upon Zion and let our eye

  • Micah 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst people of many as a lion among the beasts of the forest as a young lion among the flocks of sheep who if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver

  • Micah 5:15 - And I will execute in anger and fury vengeance upon the heathen such as they have not heard

  • 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

  • Nahum 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms harlot of the wellfavoured the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth nations of the whoredoms and families of witchcrafts

  • Nahum 3:5 - Behold I am against thee saith the LORD of hosts and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face and I will shew the nations thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame

  • Nehemiah 5:8 - And I said have redeemed our brethren the Jews and will ye even sell unto the heathen unto them We after our ability and will ye even sell our brethren and will ye even sell unto us Then held they their peace and found

  • Nehemiah 5:9 - Also I said It is not good that ye do in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies

  • Nehemiah 5:17 - of the Jews and rulers an hundred and fifty beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us Moreover there were at my table

  • Nehemiah 6:6 - Wherein was written among the heathen It is reported and Gashmu saith it that thou and the Jews think to rebel for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king according to these words

  • 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

  • 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

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