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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 87 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 BoxEze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - He said to me, "Son of man, I am sending you to the house of Israel, to rebellious nations who have rebelled against me; both they and their fathers have revolted against me to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - And the LORD said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:5 - "This is what the sovereign LORD says: This is Jerusalem; I placed her in the center of the nations with countries all around her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:6 - Then she defied my regulations and my statutes, becoming more wicked than the nations and the countries around her. Indeed, they have rejected my regulations, and they do not follow my statutes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:7 - "Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Because you are more arrogant than the nations around you, you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:8 - "Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: I - even I - am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:14 - "I will make you desolate and an object of scorn among the nations around you, in the sight of everyone who passes by.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the LORD, have spoken!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:8 - "'But I will spare some of you. Some will escape the sword when you are scattered in foreign lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:24 - I will bring the most wicked of the nations and they will take possession of their houses. I will put an end to the arrogance of the strong, and their sanctuaries will be desecrated.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:12 - Then you will know that I am the LORD, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:16 - "Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:15 - "Then they will know that I am the LORD when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:16 - But I will let a small number of them survive the sword, famine, and pestilence, so that they can confess all their abominable practices to the nations where they go. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:14 - Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the sovereign LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:4 - The nations heard about him; he was trapped in their pit. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 19:8 - The nations - the surrounding regions - attacked him. They threw their net over him; he was caught in their pit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:9 - I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:14 - I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:22 - But I refrained from doing so, and acted instead for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations in whose sight I had brought them out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:23 - I also swore to them in the wilderness that I would scatter them among the nations and disperse them throughout the lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:32 - "'What you plan will never happen. You say, "We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:41 - When I bring you out from the nations and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, I will accept you along with your soothing aroma. I will display my holiness among you in the sight of the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:15 - I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you among various countries; I will remove your impurity from you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:16 - You will be profaned within yourself in the sight of the nations; then you will 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 to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:7 - take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.'"

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:8 - "This is what the sovereign LORD says: 'Moab and Seir say, "Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:10 - I will hand it over, along with the Ammonites, to the tribes of the east, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:3 - therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 26:5 - She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:7 - I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 28:25 - "'This is what the sovereign LORD says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:12 - I will turn the land of Egypt into a desolation in the midst of desolate lands; for forty years her cities will lie desolate in the midst of ruined cities. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 29:15 - It will be the most insignificant of the kingdoms; it will never again exalt itself over the nations. I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:3 - For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of storm clouds, it will be a time of judgment for the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:11 - He and his people with him, the most terrifying of the nations, will be brought there to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with corpses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:23 - I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among foreign countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:26 - I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among foreign countries. Then they will know that I am the LORD."

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:6

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:11 - I gave it over to the leader of the nations. He has judged it thoroughly, as its sinfulness deserves. I have thrown it out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:12 - Foreigners from the most terrifying nations have cut it down and left it to lie there on the mountains. In all the valleys its branches have fallen, and its boughs lie broken in the ravines of the land. All the peoples of the land have departed from its shade and left it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:16 - I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I threw it down to Sheol, along with those who descend to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, all that were well-watered, were comforted in the earth below.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 31:17 - Those who lived in its shade, its allies among the nations, also went down with it to Sheol, to those killed by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:2 - "Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: "'You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:9 - I will disturb many peoples, when I bring about your destruction among the nations, among countries you do not know.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:12 - By the swords of the mighty warriors I will cause your hordes to fall - all of them are the most terrifying among the nations. They will devastate the pride of Egypt, and all its hordes will be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 32:16 - This is a lament; they will chant it. The daughters of the nations will chant it. They will chant it over Egypt and over all her hordes, declares the sovereign LORD."

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