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

Judges 4:16 - But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: H1471 and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

1 Samuel 8:5 - And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. H1471

1 Samuel 8:20 - That we also may be like all the nations; H1471 and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

2 Samuel 7:23 - And what one nation H1471 in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations H1471 and their gods?

2 Samuel 8:11 - Which also king David did dedicate unto the LORD, with the silver and gold that he had dedicated of all nations H1471 which he subdued;

2 Samuel 22:44 - Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people, thou hast kept me to be head of the heathen: H1471 a people which I knew not shall serve me.

2 Samuel 22:50 - Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, H1471 and I will sing praises unto thy name.

1 Kings 4:31 - For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations H1471 round about.

1 Kings 11:2 - Of the nations H1471 concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

1 Kings 14:24 - And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations H1471 which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

1 Kings 18:10 - As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation H1471 or kingdom, whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is not there; he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, H1471 that they found thee not.

2 Kings 6:18 - And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, H1471 I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

2 Kings 16:3 - But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, H1471 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:8 - And walked in the statutes of the heathen, H1471 whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

2 Kings 17:11 - And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen H1471 whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:

2 Kings 17:15 - And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen H1471 that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

2 Kings 17:26 - Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations H1471 which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

2 Kings 17:29 - Howbeit every nation H1471 made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation H1471 in their cities wherein they dwelt.

2 Kings 17:33 - They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations H1471 whom they carried away from thence.

2 Kings 17:41 - So these nations H1471 feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

2 Kings 18:33 - Hath any of the gods of the nations H1471 delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

2 Kings 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations H1471 delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

2 Kings 19:17 - Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations H1471 and their lands,

2 Kings 21:2 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, after the abominations of the heathen, H1471 whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:9 - But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations H1471 whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

1 Chronicles 14:17 - And the fame of David went out into all lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him upon all nations. H1471

1 Chronicles 16:20 - And when they went from nation H1471 to nation, H1471 and from one kingdom to another people;

1 Chronicles 16:24 - Declare his glory among the heathen; H1471 his marvellous works among all nations.

1 Chronicles 16:31 - Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice: and let men say among the nations, H1471 The LORD reigneth.

1 Chronicles 16:35 - And say ye, Save us, O God of our salvation, and gather us together, and deliver us from the heathen, H1471 that we may give thanks to thy holy name, and glory in thy praise.

1 Chronicles 17:21 - And what one nation H1471 in the earth is like thy people Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own people, to make thee a name of greatness and terribleness, by driving out nations H1471 from before thy people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt?

1 Chronicles 18:11 - Them also king David dedicated unto the LORD, with the silver and the gold that he brought from all these nations; H1471 from Edom, and from Moab, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek.

2 Chronicles 15:6 - And nation H1471 was destroyed of nation, H1471 and city of city: for God did vex them with all adversity.

2 Chronicles 20:6 - And said, O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? and rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? H1471 and in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?

2 Chronicles 28:3 - Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen H1471 whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 32:13 - Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations H1471 of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

2 Chronicles 32:14 - Who was there among all the gods of those nations H1471 that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand?

2 Chronicles 32:15 - Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation H1471 or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

2 Chronicles 32:17 - He wrote also letters to rail on the LORD God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations H1471 of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand.

2 Chronicles 32:23 - And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations H1471 from thenceforth.

2 Chronicles 33:2 - But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, H1471 whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 33:9 - So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, H1471 whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Chronicles 36:14 - Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; H1471 and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Ezra 6:21 - And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen H1471 of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,

Nehemiah 5:8 - And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; H1471 and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.

Nehemiah 5:9 - Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen H1471 our enemies?

Nehemiah 5:17 - Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen H1471 that are about us.

Nehemiah 6:6 - Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, H1471 and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

Nehemiah 6:16 - And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen H1471 that were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

Nehemiah 13:26 - Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations H1471 was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.