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)


  • 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

  • Numbers 23:9 - For from the top of the rocks I see him and from the hills I behold him lo the people alone shall dwell among the nations and shall not be reckoned

  • Numbers 24:8 - God brought him forth out of Egypt he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn he shall eat up the nations his enemies their bones and shall break them through with his arrows and pierce

  • Numbers 24:20 - And when he looked Amalek he took up his parable and said was the first of the nations Amalek but his latter for ever end shall be that he perish

  • Obadiah 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah Thus saith the Lord from the LORD concerning Edom a rumour We have heard GOD and an ambassador among the heathen is sent Arise Arise against her in battle

  • Obadiah 1:2 - thee small Behold I have made among the heathen despised thou art greatly

  • Obadiah 1:15 - is near For the day of the LORD upon all the heathen as thou hast done as thou hast done unto thee thy reward shall return upon thine own head

  • Obadiah 1:16 - For as ye have drunk mountain upon my holy For as ye have drunk so shall all the heathen continually For as ye have drunk and they shall swallow down and they shall be as though they had not

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

  • Psalms 2:1 - rage Why do the heathen and the people imagine a vain thing

  • Psalms 2:8 - Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance for thy possession and the uttermost parts of the earth

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Psalms 18:43 - Thou hast delivered me from the strivings a people and thou hast made me the head of the heathen a people whom I have not known shall serve

  • Psalms 18:49 - Therefore will I give thanks among the heathen unto thee O LORD unto thy name and sing praises

  • Psalms 22:27 - shall remember and turn unto the LORD All the ends of the world shall worship before and all the kindreds of the nations