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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 - “Like the nations H1471 that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to 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! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations H1471 greater and mightier than you, great cities [fn]fortified to heaven,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:4 - “Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before [fn]you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is because of the wickedness of these nations H1471 that the LORD is dispossessing them before you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:5 - “It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations H1471 that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the [fn]oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to 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 you a nation H1471 mightier and greater than they.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then the LORD will drive out all these nations H1471 from before you, and you will dispossess nations H1471 greater and mightier than you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:2 - “You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations H1471 whom you shall dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on 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 your God cuts off before you the nations H1471 which you are going in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 12:30

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 12:30 - beware that you are not ensnared [fn]to follow them, after they are destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations H1471 serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:6 - “For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, H1471 but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, H1471 but they will not rule over you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:14 - “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, ‘I will set a king over me like all the nations H1471 who are around me,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:9 - “When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to [fn]imitate the detestable things of those nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:14 - “For those nations, H1471 which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you to do so.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:1 - “When the LORD your God cuts off the nations, H1471 whose land the LORD your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 20:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:15 - “Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from you, which are not of the cities of these nations H1471 [fn]nearby.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “You shall answer and say before the LORD your God, ‘My father was a [fn]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and [fn]sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty and populous nation. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:19 - and [fn]that He will set you high above all nations H1471 which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor; and that you shall be a consecrated people to the LORD your God, as He has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:1 - “Now it shall be, if you diligently [fn]obey the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations H1471 of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:12 - “The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you shall lend to many nations, H1471 but you shall not borrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:36

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:36 - “The LORD will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation H1471 which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:49

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:49 - “The LORD will bring a nation H1471 against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation H1471 whose language you shall not understand,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation H1471 of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:65

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:65 - “Among those nations H1471 you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:16 - (for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations H1471 through which you passed;

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:18 - so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; H1471 that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:24

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - “All the nations H1471 will say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land? Why this great [fn]outburst of anger?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 30:1 - “So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you [fn]call them to mind in all nations H1471 where the LORD your God has banished you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:3 - “It is the LORD your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations H1471 before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the LORD has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:8 - “When the Most High gave the nations H1471 their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of [fn]man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the sons of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - ‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their [fn]idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who 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 [fn]lacking in counsel,
And there is no understanding in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:43 - “Rejoice, O nations, H1471 with His people;
For He will avenge the blood of His servants,
And will render vengeance on His adversaries,
And will atone for His land and His people.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:17 - And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation H1471 had finished crossing the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - Now when all the nation H1471 had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, H1471 that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, [fn]perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:8 - Now when they had finished circumcising all the nation, H1471 they remained in their places in the camp until they were [fn]healed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:13 - So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,
Until the nation H1471 avenged themselves of their enemies.
Is it not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for 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 [fn]heights of Dor, one; the king of Goiim H1471 in Gilgal, one;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:3 - “And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations H1471 because of you, for the LORD your God is He who has been fighting for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have apportioned to you these nations H1471 which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations H1471 which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - so that you will not [fn]associate with these nations, H1471 these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - “For the LORD has [fn]driven out great and strong nations H1471 from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - “For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, H1471 these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you [fn]associate with them and they with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 23:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to [fn]drive these nations H1471 out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He said, “Because this nation H1471 has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I also will no longer drive out before them any 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 - So the LORD allowed those nations H1471 to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give 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 test Israel by them (that is, all who had not [fn]experienced any of 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, who reigned in Hazor; and the commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - Sisera called together all his chariots, nine hundred iron chariots, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim H1471 to the river Kishon.

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