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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 7 / 11 (Jer 16:19–Jer 51:20)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles H1471 shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:7 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, H1471 and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:8 - If that nation, H1471 against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:9 - And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, H1471 and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:13 - Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ask ye now among the heathen, H1471 who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:8 - And many nations H1471 shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this great city?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:9 - Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations H1471 round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:11 - And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations H1471 shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:12 - And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, H1471 saith the LORD, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:13 - And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:14 - For many nations H1471 and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 - For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, H1471 to whom I send thee, to drink it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:17 - Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations H1471 to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:31 - A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, H1471 he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:32 - Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation H1471 to nation, H1471 and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 26:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 26:6 - Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations H1471 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:7 - And all nations H1471 shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations H1471 and great kings shall serve themselves of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:8 - And it shall come to pass, that the nation H1471 and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation H1471 will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:11 - But the nations H1471 that bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in their own land, saith the LORD; and they shall till it, and dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:13 - Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation H1471 that will not serve the king of Babylon?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:11 - And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations H1471 within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 28:14 - For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, H1471 that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 29:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:14 - And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, H1471 and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:18 - And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations H1471 whither I have driven them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:11 - For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations H1471 whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:7 - For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: H1471 publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:10 - Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, H1471 and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:36 - If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the LORD, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation H1471 before me for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:9 - And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations H1471 of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 33:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 33:24 - Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation H1471 before them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 36:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 36:2 - Take thee a roll of a book, and write therein all the words that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and against all the nations, H1471 from the day I spake unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 43:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:5 - But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, H1471 whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 44:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 44:8 - In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations H1471 of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:1 - The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles; H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 46:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:12 - The nations H1471 have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:28 - Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations H1471 whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. H1471 Also thou shalt be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:14 - I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, H1471 saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:15 - For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, H1471 and despised among men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:31 - Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, H1471 that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 49:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:36 - And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation H1471 whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - Declare ye among the nations, H1471 and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:3 - For out of the north there cometh up a nation H1471 against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:9 - For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations H1471 from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:12 - Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations H1471 shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:23 - How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:41

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:41 - Behold, a people shall come from the north, and a great nation, H1471 and many kings shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:46

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:46 - At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:7 - Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD'S hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations H1471 have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations H1471 are mad.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:20 - Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, H1471 and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

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