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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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Strong's Number H1471 matches the Hebrew גּוֹי (gôy),
which occurs 567 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 11 (Deu 8:20–Jdg 4:13)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:20 - As the nations H1471 which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to possess nations H1471 greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and fenced up to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 - Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations H1471 the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations H1471 the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:14 - Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation H1471 mightier and greater than they.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - Then will the LORD drive out all these nations H1471 from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations H1471 and mightier than yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations H1471 which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:29

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:29 - When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations H1471 from before thee, whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their land;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations H1471 serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, H1471 but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, H1471 but they shall not reign over thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations H1471 that are about me;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - For these nations, H1471 which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, H1471 whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, H1471 great, mighty, and populous:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - And to make thee high above all nations H1471 which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations H1471 of the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, H1471 and thou shalt not borrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation H1471 which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - The LORD shall bring a nation H1471 against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation H1471 whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - A nation H1471 of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:65

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - And among these nations H1471 shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:16 - (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations H1471 which ye passed by;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; H1471 lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - Even all nations H1471 shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, H1471 whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations H1471 from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - When the most High divided to the nations H1471 their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:28 - For they are a nation H1471 void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - Rejoice, O ye nations, H1471 with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:17 - And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people H1471 were passed clean over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - And it came to pass, when all the people H1471 were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people H1471 that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, H1471 that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people H1471 had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:23 - The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations H1471 of Gilgal, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:3 - And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations H1471 because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations H1471 that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations H1471 that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - That ye come not among these nations, H1471 these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations H1471 and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, H1471 even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations H1471 from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people H1471 hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations H1471 which Joshua left when he died:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - Therefore the LORD left those nations, H1471 without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - Now these are the nations H1471 which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles H1471 unto the river of Kishon.

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