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
- Deuteronomy 4:34גּוֹי֒ · another nationOr has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 4:38גּוֹיִ֛ם · nations…to drive out before you nations greater and mightier than you, and to bring you into their land and give it to you for your inheritance, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 7:1 (2×)גּֽוֹיִם־ · nations; גוֹיִ֔ם · nationsWhen the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Deuteronomy 7:17הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nationsYou may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”
- Deuteronomy 7:22הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nationsThe LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be enabled to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals would multiply around you.
- Deuteronomy 8:20כַּגּוֹיִ֗ם · Like the nationsLike the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 9:1גּוֹיִ֔ם · nationsHear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
- Deuteronomy 9:4הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsWhen the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
- Deuteronomy 9:5הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsIt is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
- Deuteronomy 9:14לְגוֹי־ · you into a nationLeave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
- Deuteronomy 11:23 (2×)הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nations; גּוֹיִ֔ם · nations…then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
- Deuteronomy 12:2הַגּוֹיִ֗ם · the nationsDestroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.
- Deuteronomy 12:29הַגּוֹיִ֗ם · the nationsWhen the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
- Deuteronomy 12:30הַגּוֹיִ֤ם · nations…be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”
- Deuteronomy 15:6 (2×)גּוֹיִ֣ם · nations; בְּגוֹיִ֣ם · nationsWhen the LORD your God blesses you as He has promised, you will lend to many nations but borrow from none; you will rule over many nations but be ruled by none.
- Deuteronomy 17:14הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
- Deuteronomy 18:9הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · of the nationsWhen you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there.
- Deuteronomy 18:14הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsThough these nations, which you will dispossess, listen to conjurers and diviners, the LORD your God has not permitted you to do so.
- Deuteronomy 19:1הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsWhen the LORD your God has cut off the nations whose land He is giving you, and when you have driven them out and settled in their cities and houses,
- Deuteronomy 20:15הַגּֽוֹיִם־ · nations nearbyThis is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
- Deuteronomy 26:5לְג֥וֹי · nation…and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
- Deuteronomy 26:19הַגּוֹיִם֙ · the nations…that He will set you high in praise and name and honor above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the LORD your God, as He has promised.
- Deuteronomy 28:1גּוֹיֵ֥י · the nations“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
- Deuteronomy 28:12גּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsThe LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
- Deuteronomy 28:36גּ֕וֹי · a nationThe LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.
- Deuteronomy 28:49 (2×)גּ֤וֹי · a nation; גּ֕וֹי · a nationThe LORD will bring a nation from afar, from the ends of the earth, to swoop down upon you like an eagle—a nation whose language you will not understand,
- Deuteronomy 28:50גּ֖וֹי · nation…a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.
- Deuteronomy 28:65וּבַגּוֹיִ֤ם · nationsAmong those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
- Deuteronomy 29:16הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsFor you yourselves know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we passed through the nations on the way here.
- Deuteronomy 29:18הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsMake sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Deuteronomy 29:24הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsSo all the nations will ask, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
- Deuteronomy 30:1הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nations“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you,
- Deuteronomy 31:3הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nationsThe LORD your God Himself will cross over ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will dispossess them. Joshua will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.
- Deuteronomy 32:8גּוֹיִ֔ם · gave the nationsWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
- Deuteronomy 32:21בְּג֥וֹי · by a nationThey have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- Deuteronomy 32:28ג֛וֹי · is a nationIsrael is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
- Deuteronomy 32:43גוֹיִם֙ · [Rejoice,] O nationsRejoice, O heavens, with Him, and let all God’s angels worship Him. Rejoice, O nations, with His people; for He will avenge the blood of His children. He will take vengeance on His adversaries and repay those who hate Him; He will cleanse His land and His people.
- Joshua 3:17הַגּ֔וֹי · nationThe priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:1הַגּ֔וֹי · nationWhen the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,
- Joshua 5:6הַגּ֜וֹי · the nation’sFor the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Joshua 5:8הַגּ֖וֹי · the nationAnd after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.
- Joshua 10:13גּוֹי֙ · the nationSo the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
- Joshua 12:23גּוֹיִ֥ם · of Goiim…the king of Dor in Naphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
- Joshua 23:3הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nations…“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
- Joshua 23:4 (2×)הַ֠גּוֹיִם · nations; הַגּוֹיִם֙ · the nationsSee, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.