This word comes from the name of Goiim.
Definition
rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Traditional renderings: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Traditional renderings: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
561 total
- Joel 3:12 (2×)הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · Let the nations; הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsLet the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
- Amos 6:1הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · nationWoe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Amos 6:14גּ֑וֹי · a nationFor behold, I will raise up a nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD, the God of Hosts, “and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of the Arabah.”
- Amos 9:9הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nations“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
- Amos 9:12הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nations…that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
- Obadiah 1:1בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם · among the nationsThis is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom—We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
- Obadiah 1:2בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם · among the nations“Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
- Obadiah 1:15הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the nationsFor the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
- Obadiah 1:16הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsFor as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
- Micah 4:2גּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsAnd many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
- Micah 4:3 (3×)לְגוֹיִ֥ם · nations; גּ֤וֹי · Nation; גּוֹי֙ · nationThen He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
- Micah 4:7לְג֣וֹי · nationAnd I will make the lame into a remnant, the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
- Micah 4:11גּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsBut now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”
- Micah 5:8בַּגּוֹיִ֗ם · among the nationsThen the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
- Micah 5:15הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · upon the nationsI will take vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations that have not obeyed Me.”
- Micah 7:16גוֹיִם֙ · NationsNations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
- Nahum 3:4גּוֹיִם֙ · nations…because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
- Nahum 3:5גוֹיִם֙ · to the nations“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
- Habakkuk 1:5בַגּוֹיִם֙ · at the nations“Look at the nations and observe—be utterly astounded! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe even if someone told you.
- Habakkuk 1:6הַגּ֖וֹי · nationFor behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.
- Habakkuk 1:17גּוֹיִ֖ם · nationsWill he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
- Habakkuk 2:5הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nations…and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- Habakkuk 2:8גּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsBecause you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you—because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
- Habakkuk 3:6גּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsHe stood and measured the earth; He looked and startled the nations; the ancient mountains crumbled; the perpetual hills collapsed. His ways are everlasting.
- Habakkuk 3:12גּוֹיִֽם׃ · the nationsYou marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- Zephaniah 2:1הַגּ֖וֹי · nationGather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation,
- Zephaniah 2:5גּ֣וֹי · O nationWoe to the dwellers of the seacoast, O nation of the Cherethites! The word of the LORD is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: “I will destroy you, and no one will be left.”
- Zephaniah 2:9גּוֹי · of My nationTherefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Zephaniah 2:11הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · Then the nationsThe LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow in worship to Him, each in its own place.
- Zephaniah 2:14ג֔וֹיHerds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
- Zephaniah 3:6גוֹיִ֗ם · the nations“I have cut off the nations; their corner towers are destroyed. I have made their streets deserted with no one to pass through. Their cities are laid waste, with no man, no inhabitant.
- Zephaniah 3:8גּוֹיִ֜ם · nationsTherefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
- Haggai 2:7 (2×)הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nations; הַגּוֹיִ֑םI will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Haggai 2:14הַגּ֨וֹי · nationThen Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
- Haggai 2:22הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · of the nationsI will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overturn chariots and their riders; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
- Zechariah 1:15הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nations…but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity.’
- Zechariah 1:21הַגּוֹיִ֗ם · of the nations“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
- Zechariah 2:8הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsFor this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
- Zechariah 2:11גוֹיִ֨ם · nations“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
- Zechariah 7:14הַגּוֹיִם֙ · the nationsBut I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations that they had not known, and the land was left desolate behind them so that no one could come or go. Thus they turned the pleasant land into a desolation.”
- Zechariah 8:13בַּגּוֹיִ֗ם · among the nationsAs you have been a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you will be a blessing. Do not be afraid; let your hands be strong.”
- Zechariah 8:22וְגוֹיִ֣ם · nationsAnd many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”
- Zechariah 8:23הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · from the nationsThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
- Zechariah 9:10לַגּוֹיִ֑ם · to the nationsAnd I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be broken. Then He will proclaim peace to the nations. His dominion will extend from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth.
- Zechariah 12:3גּוֹיֵ֥י · the nationsOn that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.
- Zechariah 12:9הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsSo on that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.