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Word Study · Strong's H1471 · Hebrew

גּוֹי

goy

go'-ee

Strong's 1890 spelling: gôwy

a foreign nation

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

Rendered in the KJV as

Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

  • 561
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 24 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 155
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 155

  • הַגּוֹיִ֔ם30
  • הַגּוֹיִם֙19
  • הַגּוֹיִ֖ם19
  • הַגּוֹיִ֑ם17
  • גּוֹיִ֔ם16
  • הַגּוֹיִֽם׃15
  • בַּגּוֹיִ֔ם14
  • גּוֹיִ֣ם13
  • גּוֹיִ֖ם12
  • הַגּוֹיִ֥ם12
  • גּוֹיִֽם׃11
  • גּוֹיִ֑ם10

and 143 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 46

  • the nations151
  • nations101
  • among the nations59
  • a nation32
  • the nation21
  • [the] nations17
  • into a nation13
  • nation12
  • [the] nations of9
  • to the nations9
  • [is] a nation5
  • and a nation4

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 20

  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural153
  • noun · masculine plural121
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural82
  • noun · masculine singular50
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular27
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular23
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)9
  • proper noun (a name)6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural4
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural4
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 153
  • HNcmpa · 121
  • HRd/Ncmpa · 82
  • HNcmsa · 50
  • HR/Ncmsa · 27
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 23
  • HNcmpc · 9
  • HNpl · 6
  • HC/Ncmsa · 4
  • HC/Rd/Ncmpa · 4
  • HNcmsc · 4
  • HR/Ncmpa · 4

The first 500 of 561, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Jeremiah carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis27 occurrences
Exodus6 occurrences
Leviticus7 occurrences
Numbers5 occurrences
Deuteronomy46 occurrences
Joshua13 occurrences
Judges7 occurrences
1 Samuel2 occurrences
2 Samuel5 occurrences
1 Kings5 occurrences
2 Kings17 occurrences
1 Chronicles9 occurrences
2 Chronicles12 occurrences
Nehemiah6 occurrences
Job3 occurrences
Psalms60 occurrences
Proverbs1 occurrence
Isaiah73 occurrences
Jeremiah87 occurrences
Lamentations7 occurrences
Ezekiel87 occurrences
Daniel3 occurrences
Hosea3 occurrences
Joel9 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).