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
- Jeremiah 27:7 (2×)הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · nations; גּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsAll nations will serve him and his son and grandson, until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will enslave him.
- Jeremiah 27:8 (2×)הַגּ֜וֹי · As for the nation; הַגּ֤וֹי · nationAs for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation by sword and famine and plague, declares the LORD, until I have destroyed it by his hand.
- Jeremiah 27:11וְהַגּ֗וֹי · But the nationBut the nation that will put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon and serve him, I will leave in its own land, to cultivate it and reside in it, declares the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 27:13הַגּ֕וֹי · any nationWhy should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?
- Jeremiah 28:11הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the nationsAnd in the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the LORD says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations.’” At this, Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.
- Jeremiah 28:14הַגּוֹיִ֣ם · nationsFor this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him. I have even given him control of the beasts of the field.’”
- Jeremiah 29:14הַגּוֹיִ֞ם · the nationsI will be found by you, declares the LORD, and I will restore you from captivity and gather you from all the nations and places to which I have banished you, declares the LORD. I will restore you to the place from which I sent you into exile.”
- Jeremiah 29:18הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the nationsI will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them.
- Jeremiah 30:11הַגּוֹיִ֣ם׀ · the nationsFor I am with you to save you, declares the LORD. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- Jeremiah 31:7הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · of the nationsFor this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
- Jeremiah 31:10גּוֹיִ֔ם · O nationsHear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
- Jeremiah 31:36גּ֛וֹי · a nation“Only if this fixed order departed from My presence, declares the LORD, would Israel’s descendants ever cease to be a nation before Me.”
- Jeremiah 33:9גּוֹיֵ֣י · the nationsSo this city will bring Me renown, joy, praise, and glory before all the nations of the earth, who will hear of all the good I do for it. They will tremble in awe because of all the goodness and prosperity that I will provide for it.
- Jeremiah 33:24גּ֥וֹי · as a nation“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Jeremiah 36:2הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the nations“Take a scroll and write on it all the words I have spoken to you concerning Israel, Judah, and all the nations, from the day I first spoke to you during the reign of Josiah until today.
- Jeremiah 43:5הַגּוֹיִם֙ · the nationsInstead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,
- Jeremiah 44:8גּוֹיֵ֥י · the nationsWhy are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
- Jeremiah 46:1הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · the nationsThis is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
- Jeremiah 46:12גוֹיִם֙ · The nationsThe nations have heard of your shame, and your outcry fills the earth, because warrior stumbles over warrior and both of them have fallen together.”
- Jeremiah 46:28הַגּוֹיִ֣ם׀ · the nationsAnd you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
- Jeremiah 48:2מִגּ֑וֹי · from nationhoodThere is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
- Jeremiah 49:14בַּגּוֹיִ֣ם · to the nationsI have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent to the nations: “Assemble yourselves to march against her! Rise up for battle!”
- Jeremiah 49:15בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם · among nations“For behold, I will make you small among nations, despised among men.
- Jeremiah 49:31גּ֥וֹי · a nationRise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
- Jeremiah 49:36הַגּ֔וֹי · a nationI will bring the four winds against Elam from the four corners of the heavens, and I will scatter them to all these winds. There will not be a nation to which Elam’s exiles will not go.
- Jeremiah 50:2בַגּוֹיִ֤ם · to the nations“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
- Jeremiah 50:3גּ֜וֹי · a nationFor a nation from the north will come against her; it will make her land a desolation. No one will live in it; both man and beast will flee.”
- Jeremiah 50:9גּוֹיִ֤ם · nationsFor behold, I stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the land of the north. They will line up against her; from the north she will be captured. Their arrows will be like skilled warriors who do not return empty-handed.
- Jeremiah 50:12גּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nations…your mother will be greatly ashamed; she who bore you will be disgraced. Behold, she will be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
- Jeremiah 50:23בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃ · among the nationsHow the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 50:41וְג֤וֹי · nationBehold, an army is coming from the north; a great nation and many kings are stirred up from the ends of the earth.
- Jeremiah 50:46בַּגּוֹיִ֥ם · among the nationsAt the sound of Babylon’s capture the earth will quake; a cry will be heard among the nations.
- Jeremiah 51:7 (2×)גוֹיִ֔ם · The nations; גוֹיִֽם׃ · the nationsBabylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
- Jeremiah 51:20גּוֹיִ֔ם · nations“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Jeremiah 51:27 (2×)בַּגּוֹיִם֙ · among the nations; גּוֹיִ֔ם · the nations“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
- Jeremiah 51:28גוֹיִם֙ · the nationsPrepare the nations for battle against her—the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
- Jeremiah 51:41בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃ · among the nationsHow Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:44גּוֹיִ֑ם · The nationsI will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
- Lamentations 1:1בַגּוֹיִ֗ם · among the nationsHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
- Lamentations 1:3בַגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsJudah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
- Lamentations 1:10גוֹיִם֙ · the nationsThe adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary—those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
- Lamentations 2:9בַגּוֹיִם֙ · are [exiled] among the nationsHer gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- Lamentations 4:15בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · Among the nations“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”
- Lamentations 4:17גּ֖וֹי · a nationAll the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Lamentations 4:20בַגּוֹיִֽם׃ס · among the nationsThe LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”
- Ezekiel 2:3גּוֹיִ֥ם · nation“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.