Biblical Persons & Places
Goiim
People from Goy(?)
People from Goy(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.1;
only referred to as Goiim (גּוֹיִם).
Gentile
A person not descended from Jews
A person not descended from Jews;
called Gentile or Gentiles (ESV, NIV= "peoples") or Gentiles (ESV= "peoples;" KJV= "heathen") or Gentiles (ESV= "nations") (גּוֹי); or Gentiles (NIV= "nations") or Gentiles (NIV= "pagans") or Gentiles (KJV= Greeks) or Gentiles (KJV= "heathen") or Gentiles (ESV= "nations") or Gentiles (ESV, NIV= "peoples") or Gentiles (ESV, NIV= "nations") or Gentiles (ESV, NIV= "people") (ESV, NIV= "pagans") (ἔθνος)
Strong's 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 Usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
TWOT Reference: 326e
Outline of Biblical Usage
n m
1) nation, people
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)
n pr m
1c) Goyim? = "nations"
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גֹּי / גּוֹי
gôy
BDB Definition:
1) nation, people (noun masculine)
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (figuratively)
1c) Goyim? = nations (noun proper masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: apparently from the same root as H1465
Same Word by TWOT Number: 326e
Total KJV Occurrences: 559
Bible Occurrences (511)
2:1
2:8
9:5
9:15
9:17
9:19
9:20
10:16
18:43
18:49
22:27
22:28
33:10
33:12
43:1
44:2
44:11
44:14
46:6
46:10
47:8
59:5
59:8
66:7
67:2
72:11
72:17
78:55
79:1
79:6
79:10
80:8
82:8
83:4
86:9
94:10
96:3
96:10
98:2
102:15
105:13
105:44
106:5
106:27
106:35
106:41
106:47
110:6
111:6
113:4
115:2
117:1
118:10
126:2
135:10
135:15
147:20
149:7
1:4
2:2
2:4
5:26
9:1
9:3
10:6
10:7
11:10
11:12
13:4
14:6
14:9
14:12
14:18
14:26
14:32
16:8
18:2
18:7
23:3
25:3
25:7
26:2
26:15
29:7
29:8
30:28
33:3
34:1
34:2
36:18
37:12
40:15
40:17
41:2
42:1
42:6
43:9
45:1
45:20
49:6
49:7
49:22
52:10
52:15
54:3
55:5
58:2
60:3
60:5
60:11
60:12
60:16
60:22
61:6
61:9
61:11
62:2
64:2
65:1
66:8
66:12
66:18
66:19
66:20
1:5
1:10
2:11
3:17
3:19
4:2
4:7
4:16
5:9
5:15
5:29
6:18
6:22
7:28
9:9
9:16
9:26
10:2
10:7
10:10
10:25
12:17
14:22
16:19
18:7
18:8
18:9
18:13
22:8
25:9
25:11
25:12
25:13
25:14
25:15
25:17
25:31
25:32
26:6
27:7
27:8
27:11
27:13
28:11
28:14
29:14
29:18
30:11
31:7
31:10
31:36
33:9
33:24
36:2
43:5
44:8
46:1
46:12
46:28
48:2
49:14
49:15
49:31
49:36
50:2
50:3
50:9
50:12
50:23
50:41
50:46
51:7
51:20
51:27
51:28
51:41
51:44
2:3
4:13
5:5
5:6
5:7
5:8
5:14
5:15
6:8
6:9
7:24
11:12
11:16
12:15
12:16
16:14
19:4
19:8
20:9
20:14
20:22
20:23
20:32
20:41
22:4
22:15
22:16
23:30
25:7
25:8
25:10
26:3
26:5
28:7
28:25
29:12
29:15
30:3
30:11
30:23
30:26
31:6
31:11
31:12
31:16
31:17
32:2
32:9
32:12
32:16
32:18
34:28
34:29
35:10
36:3
36:4
36:5
36:6
36:7
36:13
36:14
36:15
36:19
36:20
36:21
36:22
36:23
36:24
36:30
36:36
37:21
37:22
37:28
38:12
38:16
38:23
39:7
39:21
39:23
39:27
39:28