H1471 גּוֹי
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 558 KJV occurrences
גּוֹי
gôwy · go'-ee
Definition
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV Renderings
Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Derivation / Etymology
rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 558)
- Genesis 10:5By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
- Deuteronomy 18:9¶ When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
- 1 Chronicles 16:20And when they went from nation to nation, and from one kingdom to another people;
- Psalms 102:15So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
- Isaiah 54:3For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
- Jeremiah 27:7And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son’s son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
- Ezekiel 20:23I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;
- Hosea 9:17My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.