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)


  • Ezekiel 31:16 - at the sound of his fall to shake I made the nations when I cast him down to hell when I cast him down into the pit shall be comforted of the earth in the nether parts and all the trees of Eden the choice and best of Lebanon all that drink water

  • Ezekiel 31:17 - They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen

  • Ezekiel 32:2 - Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say a young lion of the nations unto him Thou art like and thou art as a whale in the seas and thou camest forth their rivers and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst their rivers

  • Ezekiel 32:9 - I will also vex the hearts people of many when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations into the countries which thou hast not known

  • Ezekiel 32:12 - By the swords of the mighty to fall and all the multitude the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt thereof shall be destroyed and all the multitude

  • Ezekiel 32:16 - her they shall lament This is the lamentation her the daughters of the nations her they shall lament for her even for Egypt and for all her multitude her they shall lament saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 32:18 - Son of man wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast them down even her and the daughters nations of the famous of the earth unto the nether parts and cast them down into the pit

  • Ezekiel 34:28 - And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen neither shall the beast of the land devour them but they shall dwell safely and none shall make them afraid

  • Ezekiel 34:29 - And I will raise up for them a plant of renown and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land neither bear the shame of the heathen

  • Ezekiel 35:10 - Because thou hast said These two nations These two countries shall be mine and we will possess it whereas the LORD

  • Ezekiel 36:3 - Therefore prophesy Thus saith Thus saith the Lord GOD Because they have made you desolate and swallowed you up on every side that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers and are an infamy of the people

  • Ezekiel 36:4 - Therefore ye mountains of Israel hear the word of the Lord Thus saith of the Lord Therefore ye mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys wastes to the desolate and to the cities that are forsaken which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about

  • Ezekiel 36:5 - Therefore thus saith the Lord Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen and against all Idumea which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart with despiteful minds to cast it out for a prey

  • Ezekiel 36:6 - Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel Thus saith unto the mountains and to the hills to the rivers and to the valleys Thus saith the Lord GOD in my jealousy and in my fury Behold I have spoken the shame of the heathen because ye have borne

  • Ezekiel 36:7 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I have lifted up mine hand Surely the heathen that are about their shame I have lifted up

  • Ezekiel 36:13 - Because they say the Lord GOD Because they say unto you Thou land devourest up men and hast bereaved thy nations

  • Ezekiel 36:14 - men Therefore thou shalt devour thy nations any more saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 36:15 - Neither will I cause men to hear in thee the shame any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations the reproach of the people any more neither shalt thou bear any more neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more saith the Lord GOD

  • Ezekiel 36:19 - And I scattered them among the heathen and they were dispersed through the countries according to their way and according to their doings I judged

  • Ezekiel 36:20 - And when they entered unto the heathen And when they entered they profaned name my holy when they said to them These are the people of the LORD out of his land and are gone forth