Goy גּוֹי

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Goy
גּוֹי
Transliteration	goy
Strong's number	H1471 (H1471A, H1471B, H1471H, H1471G)
Language	Hebrew
Part of speech	masculine noun
Gloss	nation
Occurrences	561 in 511 verses
Most frequent in	Ezekiel (81)

Goy (Hebrew גּוֹי, Strong's H1471) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “nation”. It occurs 561 times in 511 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H1471A: nation

1) nation, people
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

H1471B: Goiim

People descended from Goy(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.1
§ Goyim (Tidgal, king of)

H1471H: (Harosheth)-hagoyim

Goyim (Tidgal, king of)
Combined with cha.ro.shet (חֲרֹ֫שֶׁת "Harosheth" H2800)

H1471G: Gentile

1) nation, people
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)
1c) Goyim? = "nations"
Also named: ethnos (ἔθνος "Gentiles" G1484)

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJV	nations (265), heathen (143), nation (109), gentiles (30), people (11)
BSB	nations (322), nation (101), among the nations (63), people (4), peoples (3), goiim (3), like the nations (3), other nations (3), these nations (3), let the nations (3), o nations (3), such a nation (3), and 33 other renderings

Topics

Nations

Verses

Goy occurs in 511 verses, listed here by reference.

Genesis (23): 10:5, 10:20, 10:31, 10:32, 12:2, 14:1, 14:9, 15:14, 17:4, 17:5, 17:6, 17:16, 17:20, 18:18, 20:4, 21:13, 21:18, 22:18, 25:23, 26:4, 35:11, 46:3, 48:19

Exodus (6): 9:24, 19:6, 32:10, 33:13, 34:10, 34:24

Leviticus (7): 18:24, 18:28, 20:23, 25:44, 26:33, 26:38, 26:45

Numbers (5): 14:12, 14:15, 23:9, 24:8, 24:20

Deuteronomy (41): 4:6, 4:7, 4:8, 4:27, 4:34, 4:38, 7:1, 7:17, 7:22, 8:20, 9:1, 9:4, 9:5, 9:14, 11:23, 12:2, 12:29, 12:30, 15:6, 17:14, 18:9, 18:14, 19:1, 20:15, 26:5, 26:19, 28:1, 28:12, 28:36, 28:49, 28:50, 28:65, 29:16, 29:18, 29:24, 30:1, 31:3, 32:8, 32:21, 32:28, 32:43

Joshua (12): 3:17, 4:1, 5:6, 5:8, 10:13, 12:23, 23:3, 23:4, 23:7, 23:9, 23:12, 23:13

Judges (7): 2:20, 2:21, 2:23, 3:1, 4:2, 4:13, 4:16

1 Samuel (2): 8:5, 8:20

2 Samuel (4): 7:23, 8:11, 22:44, 22:50

1 Kings (4): 4:31, 11:2, 14:24, 18:10

2 Kings (14): 6:18, 16:3, 17:8, 17:11, 17:15, 17:26, 17:29, 17:33, 17:41, 18:33, 19:12, 19:17, 21:2, 21:9

1 Chronicles (7): 14:17, 16:20, 16:24, 16:31, 16:35, 17:21, 18:11

2 Chronicles (11): 15:6, 20:6, 28:3, 32:13, 32:14, 32:15, 32:17, 32:23, 33:2, 33:9, 36:14

Ezra (1): 6:21

Nehemiah (6): 5:8, 5:9, 5:17, 6:6, 6:16, 13:26

Job (2): 12:23, 34:29

Psalms (58): 2:1, 2:8, 9:5, 9:15, 9:17, 9:19, 9:20, 10:16, 18:43, 18:49, 22:27, 22:28, 33:10, 33:12, 43:1, 44:2, 44:11, 44:14, 46:6, 46:10, 47:8, 59:5, 59:8, 66:7, 67:2, 72:11, 72:17, 78:55, 79:1, 79:6, 79:10, 80:8, 82:8, 83:4, 86:9, 94:10, 96:3, 96:10, 98:2, 102:15, 105:13, 105:44, 106:5, 106:27, 106:35, 106:41, 106:47, 110:6, 111:6, 113:4, 115:2, 117:1, 118:10, 126:2, 135:10, 135:15, 147:20, 149:7

Proverbs (1): 14:34

Isaiah (66): 1:4, 2:2, 2:4, 5:26, 9:1, 9:3, 10:6, 10:7, 11:10, 11:12, 13:4, 14:6, 14:9, 14:12, 14:18, 14:26, 14:32, 16:8, 18:2, 18:7, 23:3, 25:3, 25:7, 26:2, 26:15, 29:7, 29:8, 30:28, 33:3, 34:1, 34:2, 36:18, 37:12, 40:15, 40:17, 41:2, 42:1, 42:6, 43:9, 45:1, 45:20, 49:6, 49:7, 49:22, 52:10, 52:15, 54:3, 55:5, 58:2, 60:3, 60:5, 60:11, 60:12, 60:16, 60:22, 61:6, 61:9, 61:11, 62:2, 64:2, 65:1, 66:8, 66:12, 66:18, 66:19, 66:20

Jeremiah (77): 1:5, 1:10, 2:11, 3:17, 3:19, 4:2, 4:7, 4:16, 5:9, 5:15, 5:29, 6:18, 6:22, 7:28, 9:9, 9:16, 9:26, 10:2, 10:7, 10:10, 10:25, 12:17, 14:22, 16:19, 18:7, 18:8, 18:9, 18:13, 22:8, 25:9, 25:11, 25:12, 25:13, 25:14, 25:15, 25:17, 25:31, 25:32, 26:6, 27:7, 27:8, 27:11, 27:13, 28:11, 28:14, 29:14, 29:18, 30:11, 31:7, 31:10, 31:36, 33:9, 33:24, 36:2, 43:5, 44:8, 46:1, 46:12, 46:28, 48:2, 49:14, 49:15, 49:31, 49:36, 50:2, 50:3, 50:9, 50:12, 50:23, 50:41, 50:46, 51:7, 51:20, 51:27, 51:28, 51:41, 51:44

Lamentations (7): 1:1, 1:3, 1:10, 2:9, 4:15, 4:17, 4:20

Ezekiel (81): 2:3, 4:13, 5:5, 5:6, 5:7, 5:8, 5:14, 5:15, 6:8, 6:9, 7:24, 11:12, 11:16, 12:15, 12:16, 16:14, 19:4, 19:8, 20:9, 20:14, 20:22, 20:23, 20:32, 20:41, 22:4, 22:15, 22:16, 23:30, 25:7, 25:8, 25:10, 26:3, 26:5, 28:7, 28:25, 29:12, 29:15, 30:3, 30:11, 30:23, 30:26, 31:6, 31:11, 31:12, 31:16, 31:17, 32:2, 32:9, 32:12, 32:16, 32:18, 34:28, 34:29, 35:10, 36:3, 36:4, 36:5, 36:6, 36:7, 36:13, 36:14, 36:15, 36:19, 36:20, 36:21, 36:22, 36:23, 36:24, 36:30, 36:36, 37:21, 37:22, 37:28, 38:12, 38:16, 38:23, 39:7, 39:21, 39:23, 39:27, 39:28

Daniel (3): 8:22, 11:23, 12:1

Hosea (3): 8:8, 8:10, 9:17

Joel (8): 1:6, 2:17, 2:19, 3:2, 3:8, 3:9, 3:11, 3:12

Amos (4): 6:1, 6:14, 9:9, 9:12

Obadiah (4): 1:1, 1:2, 1:15, 1:16

Micah (7): 4:2, 4:3, 4:7, 4:11, 5:8, 5:15, 7:16

Nahum (2): 3:4, 3:5

Habakkuk (7): 1:5, 1:6, 1:17, 2:5, 2:8, 3:6, 3:12

Zephaniah (7): 2:1, 2:5, 2:9, 2:11, 2:14, 3:6, 3:8

Haggai (3): 2:7, 2:14, 2:22

Zechariah (17): 1:15, 1:21, 2:8, 2:11, 7:14, 8:13, 8:22, 8:23, 9:10, 12:3, 12:9, 14:2, 14:3, 14:14, 14:16, 14:18, 14:19

Malachi (4): 1:11, 1:14, 3:9, 3:12

Notes

Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).