גּוֹי gôwy

Hebrew · Strong's H1471 · pronounced go'-ee · used 561 times in 511 verses

Meaning

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

In the King James Version: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

Derivation: rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);

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Where it is used

Psalms 79:1 A Psalm of Asaph. The nations, O God, have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
Psalms 79:6 Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,
Psalms 79:10 Why should the nations ask, “Where is their God?” Before our eyes, make known among the nations Your vengeance for the bloodshed of Your servants.
Psalms 80:8 You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
Psalms 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are Your inheritance.
Psalms 83:4 saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Psalms 86:9 All the nations You have made will come and bow before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name.
Psalms 94:10 He who admonishes the nations, does He not discipline? He who teaches man, does He lack knowledge?
Psalms 96:3 Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
Psalms 96:10 Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
Psalms 98:2 The LORD has proclaimed His salvation and revealed His righteousness to the nations.
Psalms 102:15 So the nations will fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
Psalms 105:13 they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
Psalms 105:44 He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
Psalms 106:5 that I may see the prosperity of Your chosen ones, and rejoice in the gladness of Your nation, and give glory with Your inheritance.
Psalms 106:27 to disperse their offspring among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
Psalms 106:35 but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
Psalms 106:41 He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.
Psalms 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.
Psalms 110:6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; He will crush the leaders far and wide.
Psalms 111:6 He has shown His people the power of His works by giving them the inheritance of the nations.
Psalms 113:4 The LORD is exalted over all the nations, His glory above the heavens.
Psalms 115:2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Psalms 117:1 Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
Psalms 118:10 All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Psalms 126:2 Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”
Psalms 135:10 He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Psalms 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Psalms 147:20 He has done this for no other nation; they do not know His judgments. Hallelujah!
Psalms 149:7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
Isaiah 1:4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who act corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
Isaiah 2:4 Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor train anymore for war.
Isaiah 5:26 He lifts a banner for the distant nations and whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Behold—how speedily and swiftly they come!
Isaiah 9:1 Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those in distress. In the past He humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future He will honor the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations:
Isaiah 9:3 You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
Isaiah 10:7 But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
Isaiah 11:10 On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.
Isaiah 11:12 He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isaiah 13:4 Listen, a tumult on the mountains, like that of a great multitude! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations gathered together! The LORD of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
Isaiah 14:6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
Isaiah 14:9 Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
Isaiah 14:26 This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
Isaiah 14:32 What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
Isaiah 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon have withered, along with the grapevines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have trampled its choicest vines, which had reached as far as Jazer and spread toward the desert. Their shoots had spread out and passed over the sea.
Isaiah 18:2 which sends couriers by sea, in papyrus vessels on the waters. Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people widely feared, to a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers.
Isaiah 18:7 At that time gifts will be brought to the LORD of Hosts—from a people tall and smooth-skinned, from a people widely feared, from a powerful nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers—to Mount Zion, the place of the Name of the LORD of Hosts.
Isaiah 23:3 On the great waters came the grain of Shihor; the harvest of the Nile was the revenue of Tyre; she was the merchant of the nations.
Isaiah 25:3 Therefore, a strong people will honor You. The cities of ruthless nations will revere You.
Isaiah 25:7 On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
Isaiah 26:2 Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
Isaiah 26:15 You have enlarged the nation, O LORD; You have enlarged the nation. You have gained glory for Yourself; You have extended all the borders of the land.
Isaiah 29:7 All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel—even all who war against her, laying siege and attacking her—will be like a dream, like a vision in the night,
Isaiah 29:8 as when a hungry man dreams he is eating, then awakens still hungry; as when a thirsty man dreams he is drinking, then awakens faint and parched. So will it be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.
Isaiah 30:28 His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
Isaiah 33:3 The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise.