Definition

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

Etymology

rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);

Where the KJV renders it

• Gentile
• heathen
• nation
• people

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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