Lexicon :: Strong's H1471 - gôy

From these descendants, the peoples of the coasts and islands spread out into their lands according to their clans in their nations, each with its own language.

These are Ham’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

I will make you into a great nation,

I will bless you,

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

In those days King Amraphel of Shinar, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim[fn]

against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar ​— ​four kings against five.

“However, I will judge the nation they serve, and afterward they will go out with many possessions.

“As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations.

“I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

“As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.

“Abraham is to become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed through him.

Now Abimelech had not approached her, so he said, “Lord, would you destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

“and I will also make a nation of the slave’s son because he is your offspring.”

“Get up, help the boy up, and grasp his hand, for I will make him a great nation.”

“And all the nations of the earth will be blessed[fn] by your offspring because you have obeyed my command.”

And the LORD said to her:

Two nations are in your womb;

two peoples will come from you and be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other,

and the older will serve the younger.

“I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky, I will give your offspring all these lands, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed[fn] by your offspring,

God also said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation, indeed an assembly of nations, will come from you, and kings will descend from you.[fn]

God said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe,[fn] and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”[fn]

The hail, with lightning flashing through it, was so severe that nothing like it had occurred in the land of Egypt since it had become a nation.

“and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.’ These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites.”

“Now leave me alone, so that my anger can burn against them and I can destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”

“Now if I have indeed found favor with you, please teach me your ways, and I will know you, so that I may find favor with you. Now consider that this nation is your people.”

And the LORD responded, “Look, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done[fn] in the whole earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the LORD’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.

“For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory. No one will covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the LORD your God.

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

“If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

“You must not follow the statutes of the nations I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and I abhorred them.

“Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

“But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

“You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will devour you.

“For their sake I will remember the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am the LORD.”

“I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

“If you kill this people with a single blow,[fn] the nations that have heard of your fame will declare,

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,

and I watch them from the hills.

There is a people living alone;

it does not consider itself among the nations.

God brought him out of Egypt;

he is like[fn] the horns of a wild ox for them.

He will feed on enemy nations

and gnaw their bones;

he will strike them with his arrows.

Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:

Amalek was first among the nations,

but his future is destruction.

“Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’

“The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors[fn] among the nations where the LORD your God will drive you.

“Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

“to drive out before you nations greater and stronger than you and to bring you in and give you their land as an inheritance, as is now taking place.

“When the LORD your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, and he drives out many nations before you ​— ​the Hethites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you ​— ​

“If you say to yourself, ‘These nations are greater than I; how can I drive them out? ’

“The LORD your God will drive out these nations before you little by little. You will not be able to destroy them all at once; otherwise, the wild animals will become too numerous for you.