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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 90 times in 81 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Eze 2:3–Eze 32:16)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people H1471 who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - Then the LORD said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations H1471 where I will banish them.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - “Thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, H1471 with lands around her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - ‘But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations H1471 and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked [fn]in My statutes.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - “Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Because you have more turmoil than the nations H1471 which surround you and have not walked in My statutes, nor observed My ordinances, nor observed the ordinances of the nations H1471 which surround you,’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8 - therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - ‘Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations H1471 which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - ‘So [fn]it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations H1471 who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - “However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations H1471 when you are scattered among the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations H1471 to which they will be carried captive, how I have [fn]been hurt by their adulterous hearts which turned away from Me, and by their eyes which played the harlot after their idols; and they will loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed, for all their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - ‘Therefore, I will bring the worst of the nations, H1471 and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong ones cease, and their holy places will be profaned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12 - “Thus you will know that I am the LORD; for you have not walked in My statutes nor have you executed My ordinances, but have acted according to the ordinances of the nations H1471 around you.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - “Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Though I had removed them far away among the nations H1471 and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - “So they will know that I am the LORD when I scatter them among the nations H1471 and spread them among the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - “But I will [fn]spare a few of them from the sword, the famine and the pestilence that they may tell all their abominations among the nations H1471 where they go, and [fn]may know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - “Then your fame went forth among the nations H1471 on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - ‘Then nations H1471 heard about him;
He was captured in their pit,
And they brought him with hooks
To the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - ‘Then nations H1471 set against him
On every side from their provinces,
And they spread their net over him;
He was captured in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - “But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations H1471 among whom they lived, in whose sight I made Myself known to them by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14 - “But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, H1471 before whose sight I had brought them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22 - “But I withdrew My hand and acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations H1471 in whose sight I had brought them out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - “Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations H1471 and disperse them among the lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - “What comes [fn]into your mind will not come about, when you say: ‘We will be like the nations, H1471 like the tribes of the lands, serving wood and stone.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - “[fn]As a soothing aroma I will accept you when I bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered; and I will prove Myself holy among you in the sight of the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - “You have become guilty by [fn]the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made. Thus you have brought your [fn]day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations H1471 and a mocking to all the lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - “I will scatter you among the nations H1471 and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:16 - “You will profane yourself in the sight of the nations, H1471 and you will know that I am the LORD.”’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - ‘These things will be done to you because you have played the harlot with the nations, H1471 because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - therefore, behold, I have stretched out My hand against you and I will give you for spoil to the nations. H1471 And I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands; I will destroy you. Thus you will know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’ H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - and I will give it for a possession along with the sons of Ammon to the sons of the east, so that the sons of Ammon will not be remembered among the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore thus says the Lord [fn]GOD, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations H1471 against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - ‘She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord GOD, ‘and she will become spoil for the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,
The most ruthless of the nations. H1471
And they will draw their swords
Against the beauty of your wisdom
And defile your splendor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, H1471 then they will live in their [fn]land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - “So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations H1471 and disperse them among the lands.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - “It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. H1471 And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3 - “For the day is near,
Even the day of the LORD is near;
It will be a day of clouds,
A time of doom for the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - “He and his people with him,
The most ruthless of the nations, H1471
Will be brought in to destroy the land;
And they will draw their swords against Egypt
And fill the land with the slain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - ‘I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations H1471 and disperse them among the lands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - ‘When I scatter the Egyptians among the nations H1471 and disperse them among the lands, then they will know that I am the LORD.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6 - ‘All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs,
And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
And all great nations H1471 lived under its shade.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11 - therefore I will give it into the hand of a [fn]despot of the nations; H1471 he will thoroughly deal with it. According to its wickedness I have driven it away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - “Alien tyrants of the nations H1471 have cut it down and left it; on the mountains and in all the valleys its branches have fallen and its boughs have been broken in all the ravines of the land. And all the peoples of the earth have gone down from its shade and left it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - “I made the nations H1471 quake at the sound of its fall when I made it go down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit; and all the [fn]well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, were comforted in the earth beneath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - “They also went down with it to Sheol to those who were slain by the sword; and those who were its [fn]strength lived under its shade among the nations. H1471

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - “Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You [fn]compared yourself to a young lion of the nations, H1471
Yet you are like the monster in the seas;
And you burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And [fn]fouled their rivers.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:9 - “I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction among the nations, H1471 into lands which you have not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - “By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations, H1471
And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its hordes will be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16 - “This is a lamentation and they shall [fn]chant it. The daughters of the nations H1471 shall [fn]chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall [fn]chant it,” declares the Lord GOD.

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