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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 567 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 - Of these were the isles of the nations divided in their lands, everyone after his language, after their families, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:20 - These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:31 - These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, after their nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 10:32

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 10:32 - These are the families of the sons of Noach, after their generations, in their nations. Of these were the nations divided in the eretz after the flood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:2 - I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:1 - It happened in the days of Amrafel, king of Shin`ar, Aryokh, king of Ellasar, Kedorla`omer, king of `Elam, and Tid`al, king of Goyim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:9 - against Kedorla`omer king of `Elam, and Tid`al king of Goyim, and Amrafel king of Shin`ar, and Aryokh king of Ellasar; four kings against the five.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:14 - I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great substance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:4 - "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:5 - Neither will your name any more be called Avram, but your name will be Avraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:6 - I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:16 - I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Yishma'el, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:18 - seeing that Avraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the eretz will be blessed in him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:4 - Now Avimelekh had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:13 - Also of the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is your seed."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:18 - Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:18 - In your seed will all the nations of the eretz be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:23 - The LORD said to her, Two nations are in your womb, Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the eretz be blessed,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - God said to him, "I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:3 - He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Mitzrayim; for there I will make of you a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:19 - His father refused, and said, "I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a multitude of nations."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 9:24 - So there was very severe hail, and lightning mixed with the hail, such as had not been in all the land of Mitzrayim since it became a nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:6 - and you shall be to me a kingdom of Kohanim, and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Yisra'el."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:10 - Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 33:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:13 - Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:10 - He said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the eretz, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:24 - For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither shall any man desire your land when you go up to appear before the LORD, your God, three times in the year.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:24 - "'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:28 - that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:23 - You shall not walk in the customs of the nation, which I am casting out before you: for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:44

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:44 - As for your bondservants, and your bondmaids, whom you shall have; of the nations that are round about you, of them shall you buy bondservants and bondmaids.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:33 - You will I scatter among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you: and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:38

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:38 - You shall perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:45 - but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Mitzrayim in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:12 - I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:15 - Now if you shall kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of you will speak, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:9 - For from the top of the rocks I see him, From the hills I see him: behold, it is a people that dwells alone, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:8 - God brings him forth out of Mitzrayim; He has as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, Shall break their bones in pieces, Smite them through with his arrows.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:20 - He looked at `Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, `Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as the LORD our God is whenever we call on him?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:27 - The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:34

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Mitzrayim before your eyes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - to drive out nations from before you greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:1 - When the LORD your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before you, the Hittite, and the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the Kana`ani, and the Perizzi, and the Hivvi, and the Yevusi, seven nations greater and mightier than you;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:17 - If you shall say in your heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you by little and little: you may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

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