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)


  • Genesis 15:14 - And also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterward shall they come out substance with great

  • 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

  • Isaiah 16:8 - For the fields of Heshbon languish and the vine of Sibmah the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants even unto Jazer thereof they are come they wandered through the wilderness her branches are stretched out they are gone over the sea

  • Ezekiel 16:14 - went forth And thy renown among the heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comeliness which I had put upon thee saith the Lord

  • Jeremiah 16:19 - O LORD my strength and my fortress and my refuge in the day of affliction the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth and shall say lies have inherited Surely our fathers vanity and things wherein there is no profit

  • 1 Chronicles 16:20 - And when they went from nation from nation and from one kingdom people to another

  • 1 Chronicles 16:24 - Declare among the heathen his glory among all nations his marvellous works

  • 1 Chronicles 16:31 - be glad Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth and let men say among the nations The LORD reigneth

  • 1 Chronicles 16:35 - And say ye Save us O God of our salvation and gather us together and deliver us from the heathen that we may give thanks name to thy holy and glory in thy praise

  • Genesis 17:4 - As for me behold my covenant is with thee and thou shalt be a father of many nations

  • Genesis 17:5 - any more be called Neither shall thy name Abram Neither shall thy name shall be Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee

  • Genesis 17:6 - And I will make thee exceeding thee exceeding and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 17:14 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee and shalt possess it and shalt dwell therein and shalt say I will set a king over me like as all the nations that are about

  • 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

  • Genesis 17:16 - And I will bless her and give thee a son And I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations kings of people

  • Genesis 17:20 - And as for Ishmael I have heard thee Behold I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly him exceedingly twelve princes shall he beget and I will make him nation a great

  • 1 Chronicles 17:21 - is like thy people Israel nation And what one in the earth went whom God to redeem is like thy people to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness by driving out from before is like thy people to redeem out of Egypt nation

  • 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

  • Isaiah 18:2 - That sendeth by the sea ambassadors even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters messengers ye swift a nation scattered and peeled to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden down have spoiled the rivers whose land

  • Isaiah 18:7 - In that time be brought shall the present of the LORD of hosts and from a people scattered and peeled and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out and trodden under foot have spoiled the rivers whose land to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts the mount Zion

  • Jeremiah 18:7 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy

  • Jeremiah 18:8 - turn If that nation from their evil against whom I have pronounced I will repent from their evil that I thought to do

  • Deuteronomy 18:9 - When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations

  • Jeremiah 18:9 - And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to build and to plant

  • 1 Kings 18:10 - liveth As the LORD thy God there is no and nation of the kingdom whither hath not sent my lord to seek thee and when they said He is not there he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they found

  • 1 Chronicles 18:11 - dedicated Them also king David unto the LORD with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations from Edom and from Moab and from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines and from Amalek

  • Jeremiah 18:13 - Therefore thus saith the LORD Ask ye now among the heathen who hath heard horrible thing hath done a very such things the virgin of Israel

  • Deuteronomy 18:14 - For these nations which thou shalt possess unto observers of times and unto diviners hearkened hath not suffered but as for thee the LORD thy God

  • Genesis 18:18 - Seeing that Abraham and all the nations shall surely become a great and mighty shall be blessed and all the nations of the earth

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 19:1 - hath cut off When the LORD thy God the nations When the LORD thy God giveth whose land thee and thou succeedest them and dwellest in their cities and in their houses

  • Ezekiel 19:4 - also heard The nations in their pit of him he was taken and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt

  • Exodus 19:6 - And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests nation and an holy These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel

  • Ezekiel 19:8 - set Then the nations against him on every side from the provinces and spread their net in their pit over him he was taken

  • 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

  • Genesis 20:4 - But Abimelech had not come near her and he said Lord nation also a righteous wilt thou slay

  • 2 Chronicles 20:6 - And said O LORD God of our fathers God in heaven and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might so that none is able to withstand

  • Ezekiel 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen among I made myself known before unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt

  • Ezekiel 20:14 - But I wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted before the heathen I brought them out before

  • Deuteronomy 20:15 - Thus shalt thou do are not of the cities far off which are very are not of the cities of these nations from thee which

  • Ezekiel 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand and wrought for my name's sake that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen I brought them forth in the sight

  • Ezekiel 20:23 - I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the heathen and disperse them through the countries

  • 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

  • Ezekiel 20:32 - And that which cometh into your mind We will be We will be shall not be at all that ye say We will be as the heathen as the families of the countries to serve wood and stone

  • Ezekiel 20:41 - savour you with your sweet I will accept when I bring you out from the people and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen

  • 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

  • Genesis 21:13 - And also of the son of the bondwoman a nation will I make because he is thy seed

  • Genesis 21:18 - Arise lift up the lad and hold him in thine hand nation him a great for I will make

  • Ezekiel 22:4 - in thy blood that thou hast shed Thou art become guilty thyself in thine idols which thou hast made and hast defiled to draw near and thou hast caused thy days and art come even unto thy years therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen and a mocking to all countries

  • Jeremiah 22:8 - shall pass nations And many by this city and they shall say every man to his neighbour done Wherefore hath the LORD by this city thus unto this great

  • Ezekiel 22:15 - And I will scatter thee among the heathen and disperse thee in the countries and will consume thy filthiness

  • Ezekiel 22:16 - And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen and thou shalt know that I am the LORD

  • Genesis 22:18 - be blessed And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth because thou hast obeyed my voice

  • 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

  • Psalms 22:28 - is the LORD'S For the kingdom and he is the governor among the nations

  • 2 Samuel 22:44 - Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings a people thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen a people which I knew not shall serve

  • 2 Samuel 22:50 - Therefore I will give thanks unto thee O LORD among the heathen unto thy name and I will sing praises

  • Isaiah 23:3 - waters And by great the seed of Sihor the harvest of the river is her revenue and she is a mart of nations

  • Joshua 23:3 - And ye have seen hath done all that the LORD your God unto all these nations because all that the LORD your God is he that hath fought

  • Joshua 23:4 - Behold I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from Jordan unto you by lot these nations that I have cut off sea even unto the great westward

  • Joshua 23:7 - That ye come not among these nations these that remain of the name of their gods among you neither make mention nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow

  • Joshua 23:9 - hath driven out For the LORD before nations you great and strong hath been able to stand but as for you no man before you unto this day

  • 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

  • Joshua 23:12 - Else if ye do in any wise Else if ye do in any wise and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in

  • Joshua 23:13 - Know Know will no more that the LORD your God drive out any of these nations from before you but they shall be snares and traps unto you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until ye perish land from off this good hath given that the LORD your God

  • Ezekiel 23:30 - I will do these things unto thee because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen and because thou art polluted with their idols

  • 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

  • Isaiah 25:3 - glorify people Therefore shall the strong thee the city nations of the terrible shall fear

  • Ezekiel 25:7 - Behold therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and will deliver to the heathen and I will cut thee off from the people and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries I will destroy thee and thou shalt know that I am the LORD

  • Isaiah 25:7 - And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people and the vail that is spread over all nations

  • Ezekiel 25:8 - Thus saith the Lord GOD Because Thus saith that Moab and Seir is like unto all the heathen Behold the house of Judah

  • Jeremiah 25:9 - Behold I will send and take all the families of the north saith the LORD and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon my servant and will bring them against this land and against the inhabitants thereof and against all these nations round about and will utterly destroy them and make them an astonishment and an hissing desolations and perpetual

  • Ezekiel 25:10 - Unto the men of the east Unto the men and will give them in possession may not be remembered Unto the men among the nations

  • Jeremiah 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment shall serve and these nations the king of Babylon seventy years

  • Jeremiah 25:12 - are accomplished And it shall come to pass when seventy years that I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation saith the LORD for their iniquity and the land of the Chaldeans and will make desolations it perpetual

  • Jeremiah 25:13 - And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it even all that is written in this book hath prophesied which Jeremiah against all the nations

  • Jeremiah 25:14 - shall serve nations For many kings and great themselves of them also and I will recompense them according to their deeds and according to the works of their own hands

  • Jeremiah 25:15 - For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me Take cup the wine of this fury at my hand thee to drink and cause all the nations to whom I send

  • Jeremiah 25:17 - Then took I the cup hand at the LORD'S to drink and made all the nations had sent at the LORD'S

  • Genesis 25:23 - said And the LORD and two manner nations are in thy womb and two manner and the one people from thy bowels shall be separated and the one people and the one people shall be stronger and the elder shall serve the younger

  • Jeremiah 25:31 - shall come A noise even to the ends of the earth hath a controversy for the LORD with the nations he will plead with all flesh them that are wicked he will give to the sword saith for the LORD

  • Jeremiah 25:32 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold evil shall go forth from nation from nation whirlwind and a great shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth

  • 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

  • Isaiah 26:2 - Open ye the gates may enter in nation that the righteous which keepeth the truth

  • Ezekiel 26:3 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O Tyrus to come up nations and will cause many to come up against thee as the sea causeth his waves

  • Genesis 26:4 - And I will make and in thy seed as the stars of heaven and will give and in thy seed countries all these be blessed and in thy seed shall all the nations countries

  • Deuteronomy 26:5 - And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God A Syrian ready to perish was my father and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few and became there a nation great mighty and populous

  • Ezekiel 26:5 - It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD and it shall become a spoil to the nations