Strong's H1471 – גּוֹי גּוֹי gowy (go'-ee) (rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee})

1. a foreign nation 2. (hence) a Gentile 3. (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts [apparently from the same root as H1465 (in the sense of massing)]

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גּוֹי גּוֹי occurs 564 times in the Old Testament

n m
1) nation, people
1a) nation, people
1a1) usually of non-Hebrew people
1a2) of descendants of Abraham
1a3) of Israel
1b) of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.)
n pr m
1c) Goyim? = |nations|

הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ — Occurs 177 times as — Article | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Zephaniah 135:47
הַגּוֹיִֽם׃ — Occurs 139 times as — Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Zephaniah 135:55
בַּגִּיִּים — Occurs 75 times as — Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Zechariah 149:50
גּֽוֹי׃ — Occurs 56 times as — Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Zephaniah 147:50
הַגּוֹי־ — Occurs 28 times as — Article | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Zephaniah 60:36
לַגּוֹיִֽם׃ — Occurs 14 times as — Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Zechariah 42:28
לְגֽוֹי׃ — Occurs 14 times as — Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Numbers 60:24
גּוֹיֵ֥י — Occurs 11 times as — Noun - masculine plural construct — e.g. Zechariah 44:21
מִגּ֣וֹי — Occurs 7 times as — Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Psalms 105:32
בְּג֥וֹי — Occurs 6 times as — Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Jeremiah 32:29
וְג֣וֹי — Occurs 4 times as — Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Jeremiah 55:41
וּבַגּוֹיִ֖ם — Occurs 4 times as — Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Psalms 44:65
בְּגוֹיֵהֶֽם׃ס — Occurs 3 times as — Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural — e.g. Genesis 10:32
גּ֥וֹי — Occurs 3 times as — Noun - masculine singular construct — e.g. Zephaniah 17:29
כַּגּוֹיִ֗ם — Occurs 3 times as — Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Ezekiel 20:32
לְגוֹיִ֑ם — Occurs 3 times as — Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural — e.g. Micah 17:16
לַגּוֹי֙ — Occurs 2 times as — Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular — e.g. Isaiah 26:15
וְגוֹיֵךְ — Occurs 2 times as — Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular — e.g. Ezekiel 36:15
בְּגוֹיִ֣ם — Occurs 1 time as — Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural — Deuteronomy 15:6
לְגוֹיֵהֶֽם׃ — Occurs 1 time as — Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural — Genesis 10:31
גּוֹיֶ֑ךָ — Occurs 1 time as — Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular — Psalms 106:5
כְּג֞וֹי — Occurs 1 time as — Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular — Isaiah 58:2
וְהַגּוֹיִ֖ם — Occurs 1 time as — Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural — Isaiah 60:12
וְהַגּ֗וֹי — Occurs 1 time as — Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular — Jeremiah 27:11
גּוֹיֵךְ — Occurs 1 time as — Noun - masculine plural construct | second person feminine singular — Ezekiel 36:13
מִגּוֹיִ֔ם — Occurs 1 time as — Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural — Ezekiel 38:12
גּוֹי — Occurs 1 time as — Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular — Zephaniah 2:9
וְגוֹיִ֣ם — Occurs 1 time as — Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural — Zechariah 8:22