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Deuteronomy 8:20
“As the nations which the Lord destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
גּוֹיgôwy · go'-ee
H1471 · Hebrew
H1471 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- Derivation
- rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);
- KJV renderings
- Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
- Grammar
- כַּ — preposition with definite article
- גּוֹיִ֗ם — common noun, masculine, plural, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 567 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 10:5Genesis 10:5Genesis 10:20Genesis 10:31Genesis 10:32
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גּוֹי here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.