Strong's Concordance H1471

Original Word: גּוֹי
Transliteration: gôwy
Phonetic Spelling: go'-ee
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; Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

Usages throughout the bible

Joel 2:19 - Yea, the LORD will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith: and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen: H1471

Joel 3:2 - I will also gather all nations, H1471 and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, H1471 and parted my land.

Joel 3:8 - And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people H1471 far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Joel 3:9 - Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; H1471 Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:

Joel 3:11 - Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, H1471 and gather yourselves together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O LORD.

Joel 3:12 - Let the heathen H1471 be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen H1471 round about.

Amos 6:1 - Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, H1471 to whom the house of Israel came!

Amos 6:14 - But, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, H1471 O house of Israel, saith the LORD the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entering in of Hemath unto the river of the wilderness.

Amos 9:9 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, H1471 like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

Amos 9:12 - That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, H1471 which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

Obadiah 1:1 - The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, H1471 Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

Obadiah 1:2 - Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: H1471 thou art greatly despised.

Obadiah 1:15 - For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: H1471 as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

Obadiah 1:16 - For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen H1471 drink continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been.

Micah 4:2 - And many nations H1471 shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Micah 4:3 - And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations H1471 afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation H1471 shall not lift up a sword against nation, H1471 neither shall they learn war any more.

Micah 4:7 - And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: H1471 and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

Micah 4:11 - Now also many nations H1471 are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion.

Micah 5:8 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles H1471 in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

Micah 5:15 - And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, H1471 such as they have not heard.

Micah 7:16 - The nations H1471 shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

Nahum 3:4 - Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations H1471 through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Nahum 3:5 - Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations H1471 thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

Habakkuk 1:5 - Behold ye among the heathen, H1471 and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

Habakkuk 1:6 - For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, H1471 which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.

Habakkuk 1:17 - Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations? H1471

Habakkuk 2:5 - Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, H1471 and heapeth unto him all people:

Habakkuk 2:8 - Because thou hast spoiled many nations, H1471 all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

Habakkuk 3:6 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; H1471 and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.

Habakkuk 3:12 - Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen H1471 in anger.

Zephaniah 2:1 - Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation H1471 not desired;

Zephaniah 2:5 - Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation H1471 of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.

Zephaniah 2:9 - Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people H1471 shall possess them.

Zephaniah 2:11 - The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen. H1471

Zephaniah 2:14 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: H1471 both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.

Zephaniah 3:6 - I have cut off the nations: H1471 their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

Zephaniah 3:8 - Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is to gather the nations, H1471 that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.

Haggai 2:7 - And I will shake all nations, H1471 and the desire of all nations H1471 shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.

Haggai 2:14 - Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation H1471 before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

Haggai 2:22 - And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; H1471 and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

Zechariah 1:15 - And I am very sore displeased with the heathen H1471 that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

Zechariah 1:21 - Then said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, H1471 which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

Zechariah 2:8 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations H1471 which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.

Zechariah 2:11 - And many nations H1471 shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall be my people: and I will dwell in the midst of thee, and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee.

Zechariah 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations H1471 whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

Zechariah 8:13 - And it shall come to pass, that as ye were a curse among the heathen, H1471 O house of Judah, and house of Israel; so will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing: fear not, but let your hands be strong.

Zechariah 8:22 - Yea, many people and strong nations H1471 shall come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD.

Zechariah 8:23 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, H1471 even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.

Zechariah 9:10 - And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace unto the heathen: H1471 and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth.

Zechariah 12:3 - And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people H1471 of the earth be gathered together against it.