גּוֹי

goy

Hebrew H1471 Noun, masculine 561 occurrences in 511 verses

גּוֹי nation

1. nation, people

a. nation, people

1. usually of non-Hebrew people

2. of descendants of Abraham

3. of Israel

b. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 511 verses

Judges 4:16 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.
1 Samuel 8:5 הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
1 Samuel 8:20 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to judge us, to go out before us, and to fight our battles.”
2 Samuel 7:23 גּ֥וֹיגּוֹיִ֖ם

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.
2 Samuel 8:11 הַגּוֹיִ֖ם

and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had dedicated from all the nations he had subdued—
2 Samuel 22:44 גּוֹיִ֔ם

You have delivered me from the strife of my people; You have preserved me as the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
2 Samuel 22:50 בַּגּוֹיִ֑ם

Therefore I will praise You, O LORD, among the nations; I will sing praises to Your name.
1 Kings 4:31 הַגּוֹיִ֖ם

He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations.
1 Kings 11:2 הַגּוֹיִ֗ם

These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
1 Kings 14:24 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

There were even male shrine prostitutes in the land. They imitated all the abominations of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
1 Kings 18:10 גּ֤וֹיהַגּ֔וֹי

As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
2 Kings 6:18 הַגּוֹי־

As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
2 Kings 16:3 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 17:8 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel.
2 Kings 17:11 כַּגּוֹיִ֕ם

They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.
2 Kings 17:15 הַגּוֹיִם֙

They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and themselves became worthless, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.
2 Kings 17:26 הַגּוֹיִ֗ם

So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
2 Kings 17:29 גּ֥וֹיגּ֖וֹיגּ֥וֹיגּוֹי֙

Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
2 Kings 17:33 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.
2 Kings 17:41 הַגּוֹיִ֣ם

So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
2 Kings 18:33 הַגּוֹיִ֖ם

Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
2 Kings 19:12 הַגּוֹיִם֙

Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
2 Kings 19:17 הַגּוֹיִ֖ם

Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
2 Kings 21:2 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Kings 21:9 הַ֨גּוֹיִ֔ם

But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
1 Chronicles 14:17 הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

And David’s fame went out into every land, and the LORD caused all nations to fear him.
1 Chronicles 16:20 מִגּ֣וֹיגּ֔וֹי

they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
1 Chronicles 16:24 בַגּוֹיִם֙

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all peoples.
1 Chronicles 16:31 בַגּוֹיִ֖ם

Let the heavens be glad, and the earth rejoice. Let them say among the nations, ‘The LORD reigns!’
1 Chronicles 16:35 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

Then cry out: ‘Save us, O God of our salvation; gather and deliver us from the nations, that we may give thanks to Your holy name, that we may glory in Your praise.’
1 Chronicles 17:21 גּ֥וֹיגּוֹיִֽם׃

And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself? You made a name for Yourself through great and awesome wonders by driving out nations from before Your people, whom You redeemed from Egypt.
1 Chronicles 18:11 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

and King David dedicated these to the LORD, along with the silver and gold he had carried off from all these nations—from Edom and Moab, and from the Ammonites, Philistines, and Amalekites.
2 Chronicles 15:6 גוֹי־בְּג֖וֹי

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
2 Chronicles 20:6 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
2 Chronicles 28:3 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 32:13 גּוֹיֵ֣

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:14 הַגּוֹיִ֤ם

Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?
2 Chronicles 32:15 גּ֣וֹי

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
2 Chronicles 32:17 גּוֹיֵ֤

He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
2 Chronicles 32:23 הַגּוֹיִ֖ם

Many brought offerings to Jerusalem for the LORD and valuable gifts for Hezekiah king of Judah, and from then on he was exalted in the eyes of all nations.
2 Chronicles 33:2 הַגּוֹיִ֔ם

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD by following the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:9 הַ֨גּוֹיִ֔ם

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 36:14 הַגּוֹיִ֑ם

Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Ezra 6:21 גּוֹיֵֽ־

The Israelites who had returned from exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the peoples of the land to seek the LORD, the God of Israel.
Nehemiah 5:8 לַגּוֹיִם֙

and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
Nehemiah 5:9 הַגּוֹיִ֥ם

So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our foreign enemies?
Nehemiah 5:17 הַגּוֹיִ֥ם

There were 150 Jews and officials at my table, besides the guests from the surrounding nations.
Nehemiah 6:6 בַּגּוֹיִ֤ם

that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,
Nehemiah 6:16 הַגּוֹיִם֙

When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and disheartened, for they realized that this task had been accomplished by our God.
Nehemiah 13:26 וּבַגּוֹיִ֣ם

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.