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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 561 times in 511 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 8 / 11 (Jer 51:27–Eze 30:11)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:27 - Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, H1471 prepare the nations H1471 against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough caterpillers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:28 - Prepare against her the nations H1471 with the kings of the Medes, the captains thereof, and all the rulers thereof, and all the land of his dominion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:41 - How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth surprised! how is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations! H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:44 - And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations H1471 shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, H1471 and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, H1471 she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen H1471 entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:9 - Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: H1471 the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:15 - They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, H1471 They shall no more sojourn there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:17 - As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation H1471 that could not save us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:20 - The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation H1471 that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, H1471 whither I will drive them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations H1471 and countries that are round about her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, H1471 and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye multiplied more than the nations H1471 that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations H1471 that are round about you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations H1471 that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations H1471 that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, H1471 when ye shall be scattered through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations H1471 whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, H1471 and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12 - And ye shall know that I am the LORD: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my judgments, but have done after the manners of the heathen H1471 that are round about you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, H1471 and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall scatter them among the nations, H1471 and disperse them in the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen H1471 whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - And thy renown went forth among the heathen H1471 for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations H1471 also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - Then the nations H1471 set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, H1471 among whom they were, in whose sight I made myself known unto them, in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14 - But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted before the heathen, H1471 in whose sight I brought them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22 - Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, H1471 in whose sight I brought them forth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, H1471 and disperse them through the countries;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, H1471 as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, H1471 and a mocking to all countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - And I will scatter thee among the heathen, H1471 and disperse thee in the countries, and will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:16 - And thou shalt take thine inheritance in thyself in the sight of the heathen, H1471 and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, H1471 and because thou art polluted with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - Behold, therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and will deliver thee for a spoil to the heathen; H1471 and I will cut thee off from the people, and I will cause thee to perish out of the countries: I will destroy thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because that Moab and Seir do say, Behold, the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen; H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - Unto the men of the east with the Ammonites, and will give them in possession, that the Ammonites may not be remembered among the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations H1471 to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: H1471 and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, H1471 then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, H1471 and will disperse them through the countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it exalt itself any more above the nations: H1471 for I will diminish them, that they shall no more rule over the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3 - For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen. H1471

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, H1471 shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.

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