Strong's H1471 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: גּוֹי (gôwy)

Pronunciation: go'-ee

Morphology: n-m n-pr-m

Part of Speech: n m, n pr m

Derivation: rarely (shortened) גֹּי (gôy); apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (gêvâh) [H1465] (in the sense of massing);

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

KJV Renderings: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

Senses

1. nation, people
1. nation, people
2. usually of non-Hebrew people
3. of descendants of Abraham
4. of Israel
5. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)
6. Goyim? = "nations"

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.