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
- Joshua 23:7בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsSo you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.
- Joshua 23:9גּוֹיִ֖ם · nationsThe LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
- Joshua 23:12הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsFor if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- Joshua 23:13הַגּוֹיִ֥ם · nations…know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
- Judges 2:20הַגּ֣וֹי · nationSo the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed the covenant I laid down for their fathers and has not heeded My voice,
- Judges 2:21הַגּוֹיִ֛ם · of the nationsI will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
- Judges 2:23הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsThat is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
- Judges 3:1הַגּוֹיִם֙ · are the nationsThese are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,
- Judges 4:2הַגּוֹיִֽם׃So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- Judges 4:13הַגּוֹיִ֖ם…he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.
- Judges 4:16הַגּוֹיִ֑םThen Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.
- 1 Samuel 8:5הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · the other nations“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- 1 Samuel 8:20הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the other nationsThen we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
- 2 Samuel 7:23 (2×)גּ֥וֹי · nation; גּוֹיִ֖ם · [by driving out] nationsAnd who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
- 2 Samuel 8:11הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nations…and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—
- 2 Samuel 22:44גּוֹיִ֔ם · of nationsYou have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- 2 Samuel 22:50בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם · among the nationsTherefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
- 1 Kings 4:31הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · nationsHe was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
- 1 Kings 11:2הַגּוֹיִ֗ם · the nationsThese women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
- 1 Kings 14:24הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsThere were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 1 Kings 18:10 (2×)גּ֤וֹי · nation; הַגּ֔וֹי · or nationAs surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
- 2 Kings 6:18הַגּוֹי־ · peopleAs the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
- 2 Kings 16:3הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsInstead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 17:8הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nations…and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:11כַּגּוֹיִ֕ם · like the nationsThey burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
- 2 Kings 17:15הַגּוֹיִם֙ · nationsThey rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
- 2 Kings 17:26הַגּוֹיִ֗ם · The peoplesSo they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
- 2 Kings 17:29 (4×)גּ֥וֹי · the people of each nation; גּ֖וֹי; גּ֥וֹי · the people; גּוֹי֙Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
- 2 Kings 17:33הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsThey worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
- 2 Kings 17:41הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsSo these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
- 2 Kings 18:33הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · nationHas the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
- 2 Kings 19:12הַגּוֹיִם֙ · of the nationsDid the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
- 2 Kings 19:17הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · these nationsTruly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
- 2 Kings 21:2הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsAnd he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 21:9הַ֨גּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsBut the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
- 1 Chronicles 14:17הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · nationsAnd David’s fame went out into every land, and the LORD caused all nations to fear him.
- 1 Chronicles 16:20 (2×)מִגּ֣וֹי · from nation; גּ֔וֹי · nation…they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
- 1 Chronicles 16:24בַגּוֹיִם֙ · among the nationsDeclare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples.
- 1 Chronicles 16:31בַגּוֹיִ֖ם · among the nationsLet the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
- 1 Chronicles 16:35הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the nationsThen cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
- 1 Chronicles 17:21 (2×)גּ֥וֹי · nation; גּוֹיִֽם׃ · nationsAnd who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
- 1 Chronicles 18:11הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · [these] nations…and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6גוֹי־ · NationNation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.