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Lexicon :: Strong's H1471 - gôy

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גּוֹי
Transliteration
gôy
Pronunciation
go'-ee
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (H1465)
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TWOT Reference: 326e

Strong’s Definitions

גּוֹי gôwy, go'-ee; rarely (shortened) גֹּי gôy; apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 558x

The KJV translates Strong's H1471 in the following manner: nation (374x), heathen (143x), Gentiles (30x), people (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 558x
The KJV translates Strong's H1471 in the following manner: nation (374x), heathen (143x), Gentiles (30x), people (11x).
masculine noun

  1. nation, people

    1. nation, people

      1. usually of non-Hebrew people

      2. of descendants of Abraham

      3. of Israel

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

      proper masculine noun

    3. Goyim? = "nations"

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גּוֹי gôwy, go'-ee; rarely (shortened) גֹּי gôy; apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
STRONGS H1471: Abbreviations
גּוֺי 561 noun masculineGenesis 12:2 nation, people (Late Hebrew id. Gentiles, Phoenician גו community, axvfg, Sabean גו id., DHMZMG 1883, 348) — ג׳ Genesis 12:2 121 times; suffix 1st person singular גּוֺיִ Zephaniah 2:9, גּוֺיֶ֑ךָ Psalm 106:5, גּוֺיֵךְ Kt Ezekiel 36:13, 14, 15 (Qr wrongly גּוֺיַיִךְ compare Co, who strike out Ezekiel 36:15); plural גּוֺיִם Genesis 10:5 410 times + Qr Genesis 25:23; Psalm 79:10 (Kt גיים) + 6 times Ezekiel (variant reading emended Co); construct גּוֺיֵי Genesis 18:18 + 8 times, גּוֺיֵ 2 Chronicles 32:13; Ezra 6:21 (compare Baer's notes); suffix גּוֺיֵהֶם Genesis 10:5, 20, 31, 32; —
1. nation, people Genesis 10:5 (twice in verse); Genesis 10:20, 31, 32 (twice in verse) (all P) +; Isaiah 2:2, 4 (twice in verse) = Micah 4:2, 3(twice in verse); Job 12:23 (twice in verse); Job 34:29; Proverbs 14:34; כֹּל גּוֺיֵי הָאָרֶץ Genesis 18:18; Genesis 22:18; Genesis 26:4 (all J); Deuteronomy 28:1.
a. specifically of descendants of Abraham, גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 12:2; compare Genesis 18:18 (both J), גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:6, הֲמוֺן גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:4, 15 (all P); of Sarah גּוֺיִם Genesis 17:16 (P); of Ishmael גּוֺי Genesis 21:13, גָּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 21:18 (both E), גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 17:20 (P); of Jacob גּוֺי וּקְהַל גּוֺיִם Genesis 35:11 (P), גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Genesis 46:3 (E); of Ephraim מְלֹא הַגּ׳ Genesis 48:19 (J); of Moses גּוֺי גָּדוֺל Exodus 32:10 (J) compare Numbers 14:12 (J) Deuteronomy 9:14; of Jacob and Esau as two nations Genesis 25:23 (J).
b. definitely of Israel Exodus 19:6 (קָדוֺשׁ גּ׳) Exodus 33:13 (both J E), Deuteronomy 4:6 (הַגּוֺי הַגָּדוֺל הַזֶּה, said by heathen compare Deuteronomy 4:7; Deuteronomy 4:8) see also Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 26:5 compare Psalm 33:12; Psalm 83:5 (said by enemies) Jeremiah 31:36; Jeremiah 33:24; Ezekiel 37:22; in narrative Joshua 3:17; Joshua 4:1; Joshua 5:8 (JE), Joshua 5:6 (D), Joshua 10:13 (in poetry, no article); of Israel and Judah as two nations Ezekiel 35:10 (said by heathen) Ezekiel 37:22; of Judah Isaiah 26:2, 15 (twice in verse); compare Isaiah 58:2; Isaiah 60:22; Micah 4:7; once my people Zephaniah 2:9 (|| עַם); thy people Psalm 106:5 (i.e. of י׳), compare also Ezekiel 36:13, 14 (read Kt); especially of Israel and (or) Judah as sinful, rebellious Deuteronomy 32:28; Judges 2:20; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 10:6; Jeremiah 5:9, 29; Jeremiah 7:28; Jeremiah 9:8; Jeremiah 12:17; Ezekiel 2:3 (strike out Greek Version of the LXX Co) Haggai 2:14; Malachi 3:9. — Note. This definite reference to Israel and (or) Judah is comparatively rare; in Hexateuch not P (yet see Genesis 17:4, 5, 6, 16; Genesis 35:11 P); seldom in exile & post-exile prophets; not Chronicles —
c. usually of non-Hebrew peoples Exodus 9:24; Exodus 34:10 (JE) Leviticus 25:44 (H) Numbers 14:15 (J) Deuteronomy 15:6 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 5:11; 1 Chronicles 14:17; 1 Chronicles 16:20; Isaiah 11:10, 12 + often; opposed to Israel as עם י׳ 2 Samuel 7:23; 1 Chronicles 17:21 (twice in verse) etc., see H5971 עם, compare also Numbers 23:9; note especially גְּלִיל הַגּוֺיִם Isaiah 8:23 [Isaiah 9:1] circle or district of the nations (see H1551 גָּלִיל); also חֲרשֶׁת הַגּ׳ Judges 4:2, 13, 16 Charosheth of the nations, & מֶלֶךְ גּוֺיִם לְגִלְגָּ֖ל Joshua 12:23 king of nations (peoples, tribes) belonging to Gilgal (Greek Version of the LXX Di to the district, i.e 'Galilee'); especially of these peoples as heathen: idolatrous Leviticus 8:24, 28 (P) Leviticus 20:23 (H) 1 Kings 14:24; 2 Kings 17:8, 11, 15, 26, 29 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 28:3; 32:13 +, Ezra 6:21; Ezekiel 5:6 +; hostile Genesis 15:14 (J) Leviticus 26:33, 38, 45 (H) Deuteronomy 4:27; Deuteronomy 9:4, 5; Deuteronomy 18:9; 1 Chronicles 16:35; Jeremiah 5:15; Ezekiel 4:13 — Jeremiah Ezekiel, etc.; in simile Ezekiel 20:32; Ezekiel 25:8; sometimes || עַם Psalm 33:10; Psalm 33:12; Isaiah 11:10; Jeremiah 6:18, see also Isaiah 2:2, 4 compare with Micah 4:1, 3.
2. figurative of swarm of locusts Joel 1:6; of all species of beasts Zephaniah 2:14.
3. גּוֺיִם Genesis 14:1, 9 probably mutilated proper name see below.

גּוֺיִם proper name, of a people Genesis 14:1, 9, in phrase תִּדְעָל מֶלֶךְ גּוֺיִם Tid`al king of Goim; probably a Babylonian (Elamitic, etc.) name corrupted; H. Rawlinson proposes Gutî a people northeast of Babylonia COT on Genesis 14:1; also KGF258and elsewhere; compare also DlPa 233 f.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

10:4; 10:5; 10:5; 10:5; 10:20; 10:20; 10:31; 10:31; 10:32; 10:32; 12:1; 12:2; 12:2; 12:2; 14:1; 14:1; 14:1; 14:9; 14:9; 15:14; 17:4; 17:4; 17:5; 17:6; 17:6; 17:15; 17:16; 17:16; 17:20; 18:18; 18:18; 18:18; 21:13; 21:18; 22:18; 25:23; 25:23; 26:4; 35:11; 35:11; 46:3; 48:19

Exodus

9:24; 19:6; 32:10; 33:13; 34:10

Leviticus

8:24; 8:28; 20:23; 25:44; 26:33; 26:38; 26:45

Numbers

14:12; 14:15; 23:9

Deuteronomy

4:6; 4:7; 4:8; 4:27; 4:34; 9:4; 9:5; 9:14; 15:6; 18:9; 26:5; 28:1; 32:28

Joshua

3:17; 4:1; 5:6; 5:8; 10:13; 12:23

Judges

2:20; 4:2; 4:13; 4:16

2 Samuel

7:23

1 Kings

5:11; 14:24

2 Kings

17:8; 17:11; 17:15; 17:26; 17:29

1 Chronicles

14:17; 16:20; 16:35; 17:21

2 Chronicles

28:3; 32:13; 32:13

Ezra

6:21; 6:21

Job

12:23; 34:29

Psalms

33:10; 33:12; 33:12; 79:10; 83:5; 106:5; 106:5

Proverbs

14:34

Isaiah

1:4; 2:2; 2:2; 2:4; 2:4; 9:1; 10:6; 11:10; 11:10; 11:12; 26:2; 26:15; 58:2; 60:22

Jeremiah

5:9; 5:15; 5:29; 6:18; 7:28; 9:8; 12:17; 31:36; 33:24

Ezekiel

2:3; 4:13; 5:6; 20:32; 25:8; 35:10; 36:13; 36:13; 36:14; 36:14; 36:15; 36:15; 37:22; 37:22

Joel

1:6

Micah

4:1; 4:2; 4:3; 4:3; 4:7

Zephaniah

2:9; 2:9; 2:14

Haggai

2:14

Malachi

3:9

H1471

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Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1471 matches the Hebrew גּוֹי (gôy),
which occurs 561 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 11 (Gen 10:5–Deu 7:22)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:5 - From these were the islands of the Gentiles divided in their land, each according to his tongue, in their tribes and in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These were the sons of Cham in their tribes according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These were the sons of Sem in their tribes, according to their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the tribes of the sons of Noe, according to their generations, according to their nations: of them were [fn]the islands of the Gentiles scattered over the earth after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:2 - And I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee and magnify thy name, and thou shalt be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1 - And it came to pass in the reign of Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, that Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - against Chodollogomor king of Elam, and Thargal king of nations, and Amarphal king of Sennaar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, the four kings against the five.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - And the nation whomsoever they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth hither with much [fn]property.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4 - And I, behold! my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraam, [fn] for I have made thee a father of many nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - And I will increase thee very exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - And I will bless her, and give thee a son of her, and I will bless him, and he shall become nations, and kings of nations shall be of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - And concerning Ismael, behold, I have heard thee, and, behold, I have blessed him, and will increase him and multiply him exceedingly; twelve nations shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - But Abraam shall become a great and populous nation, and in him shall all the nations of the earth be blest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - But Abimelech had not touched her, and he said, Lord, wilt thou destroy an ignorantly sinning and just nation?

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - And moreover I will make the son of this bondwoman a great nation, because he is thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Rise up, and take the child, and hold him in thine hand, for I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - And [fn] in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - And the Lord said to her, There are two nations in thy womb, and two peoples shall be separated from thy belly, and one people shall excel the other, and the [fn]elder shall serve the younger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - And I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven; and I will give to thy seed all this land, and all the nations of the earth shall be blest in thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, I am thy God; increase and multiply; for nations and gatherings of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - And he says to him, I am the God of thy fathers; fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will make thee there a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - And he would not, but said, I know it, son, I know it; he also shall be a people, and he shall be exalted, but his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - So there was hail and flaming fire mingled with hail; and the hail was very great, such as was not in Egypt, from the time there was a nation upon it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6 - And ye shall be to me a royal priesthood and a holy nation: these words shalt thou speak to the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - And now let me alone, and I will be very angry with them and consume them, and I will make thee a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - If then I have found favour in thy sight, reveal thyself to me, that I may evidently see thee; that I may find favour in thy sight, and that I may know that this great nation is thy people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, I establish a covenant for thee in the presence of all thy people; I will do glorious things, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation; and all the people among whom thou art shall see the works of the Lord, that they are wonderful, which I will do for thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - For when I shall have cast out the nations before thy face, and shall have enlarged thy coasts, no one shall desire thy land, whenever thou mayest go up to appear before the Lord thy God, three times in the year.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for in all these things the nations are defiled, which I drive out before you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - and lest the land be aggrieved with you in your polluting it, as it was aggrieved with the nations before you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23 - And walk ye not in the customs of the nations which I drive out from before you; for they have done all these things, and I have abhorred them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - And whatever number of men-servants and maid-servants thou shalt have, thou shalt purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - And I will scatter you among the nations, and the sword shall come upon you and consume you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities shall be desolate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - And ye shall perish among the Gentiles, and the land of your enemies shall devour you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - And I will remember their former covenant, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage before the nations, to be their God; I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - I will smite them with death, and destroy them; and I will make of thee and of thy father's house a great nation, and much greater than this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - And if thou shalt destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard thy name shall speak, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of the mountains I shall see him, and from the hills I shall observe him: behold, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - God led him out of Egypt; he has as it were the glory of a unicorn: he shall consume the nations of his enemies, and he shall [fn]drain their marrow, and with his darts he shall shoot through the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - And having seen Amalec, he took up his parable and said, Amalec is the first of the nations; yet his seed shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - And ye shall keep and do them: for this is your wisdom and understanding before all nations, as many as shall hear all these ordinances; and they shall say, Behold, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - For what manner of nation is so great, which has God so near to them as the Lord our God is in all things in whatsoever we may call upon him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - And what manner of nation is so great, which has righteous ordinances and judgments according to all this law, which I set before you this day?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - if God has assayed to go and take to himself a nation out of the midst of another nation with trial, and with signs, and with wonders, and with war, and with a mighty hand, and with a high arm, and with great sights, according to all the things which the Lord our God did in Egypt [fn]in thy sight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - to destroy nations [fn]great and stronger than thou before thy face, to bring thee in, to give thee their land to inherit, as thou hast it this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - And when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before thee, the Chettite, and Gergesite, and Amorite, and Chananite, and Pherezite, and Evite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - But if thou shouldest say in thine heart, This nation is [fn]greater than I, how shall I be able to destroy them utterly?

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.

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