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
- Ezekiel 4:13בַּגּוֹיִ֕ם · among the nationsThen the LORD said, “This is how the Israelites will eat their defiled bread among the nations to which I will banish them.”
- Ezekiel 5:5הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · of the nationsThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘This is Jerusalem, which I have set in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.
- Ezekiel 5:6הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · the nationsBut she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
- Ezekiel 5:7 (2×)הַגּוֹיִם֙ · the nations; הַגּוֹיִ֛ם · of the nationsTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You have been more insubordinate than the nations around you; you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances, nor have you even conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.’
- Ezekiel 5:8הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · of the nationsTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself am against you, Jerusalem, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 5:14בַּגּוֹיִ֖ם · among the nationsI will make you a ruin and a disgrace among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.
- Ezekiel 5:15לַגּוֹיִ֖ם · to the nationsSo you will be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror to the nations around you, when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezekiel 6:8בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם · among the nationsYet I will leave a remnant, for some of you will escape the sword when you are scattered among the nations and throughout the lands.
- Ezekiel 6:9בַּגּוֹיִם֮ · Then in the nationsThen in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:24גוֹיִ֔ם · of nationsSo I will bring the most wicked of nations to take possession of their houses. I will end the pride of the mighty, and their holy places will be profaned.
- Ezekiel 11:12הַגּוֹיִ֛ם · of the nationsThen you will know that I am the LORD. For you have neither followed My statutes nor practiced My ordinances, but you have conformed to the ordinances of the nations around you.”
- Ezekiel 11:16בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsTherefore declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Although I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them in the countries to which they have gone.’
- Ezekiel 12:15בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsAnd they will know that I am the LORD, when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 12:16בַּגּוֹיִם֙ · in the nationsBut I will spare a few of them from sword and famine and plague, so that in the nations to which they go, they can recount all their abominations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 16:14בַּגּוֹיִ֖ם · among the nationsYour fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 19:4גּוֹיִ֖ם · When the nationsWhen the nations heard of him, he was trapped in their pit. With hooks they led him away to the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 19:8גּוֹיִ֛ם · Then the nationsThen the nations set out against him from the provinces on every side. They spread their net over him; he was trapped in their pit.
- Ezekiel 20:9הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · of the nationsBut I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:14הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsBut I acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezekiel 20:22הַגּוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsBut I withheld My hand and acted for the sake of My name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.
- Ezekiel 20:23בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsHowever, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.
- Ezekiel 20:32כַגּוֹיִם֙ · like the nationsWhen you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
- Ezekiel 20:41הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · of the nationsWhen I bring you from the peoples and gather you from the lands to which you have been scattered, I will accept you as a pleasing aroma. And I will show My holiness through you in the sight of the nations.
- Ezekiel 22:4לַגּוֹיִ֔ם · to the nations…you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
- Ezekiel 22:15בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · you among the nationsI will disperse you among the nations and scatter you throughout the lands; I will purge your uncleanness.
- Ezekiel 22:16גוֹיִ֑ם · of the nationsAnd when you have defiled yourself in the eyes of the nations, then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
- Ezekiel 23:30גוֹיִ֔ם · the nations…have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
- Ezekiel 25:7לַגּוֹיִ֔ם · to the nations…therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 25:8הַגּוֹיִ֖ם · the other nationsThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
- Ezekiel 25:10בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃ · among the nationsI will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
- Ezekiel 26:3גּוֹיִ֣ם · nations…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
- Ezekiel 26:5לַגּוֹיִֽם׃ · for the nationsShe will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,
- Ezekiel 28:7גּוֹיִ֑ם · of nations…behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
- Ezekiel 28:25הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · of the nationsThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
- Ezekiel 29:12בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsI will make the land of Egypt a desolation among desolate lands, and her cities will lie desolate for forty years among the ruined cities. And I will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the countries.
- Ezekiel 29:15 (2×)הַגּוֹיִ֑ם · the nations; בַּגּוֹיִֽם׃ · over the nationsEgypt will be the lowliest of kingdoms and will never again exalt itself above the nations. For I will diminish Egypt so that it will never again rule over the nations.
- Ezekiel 30:3גּוֹיִ֖ם · [of doom] for the nationsFor the day is near, the Day of the LORD is near. It will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
- Ezekiel 30:11גוֹיִ֔ם · of the nationsHe and his people with him, the most ruthless of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt and fill the land with the slain.
- Ezekiel 30:23בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם · among the nationsI will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands.
- Ezekiel 30:26בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nationsI will disperse the Egyptians among the nations and scatter them throughout the lands. Then they will know that I am the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 31:6גּוֹיִ֥ם · nationsAll the birds of the air nested in its branches, and all the beasts of the field gave birth beneath its boughs; all the great nations lived in its shade.
- Ezekiel 31:11גּוֹיִ֑ם · of the nationsI delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.
- Ezekiel 31:12גוֹיִ֖ם · of the nationsForeigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
- Ezekiel 31:16גוֹיִ֔ם · I made the nationsI made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below.
- Ezekiel 31:17גּוֹיִֽם׃ · the nationsThey too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.
- Ezekiel 32:2גּוֹיִ֖ם · among the nations“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’
- Ezekiel 32:9בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם · among the nations‘I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, in countries you do not know.
- Ezekiel 32:12גוֹיִ֖ם · nationsI will make your hordes fall by the swords of the mighty, the most ruthless of all nations. They will ravage the pride of Egypt and all her multitudes will be destroyed.