גּוֹי
gôwy(go'-ee)
“a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts”
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Definition
From Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (1906)
Strong’s Definition
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Translated in KJV as
Gentileheathennationpeople.
Etymology
rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as H1465 (גֵּוָה) (in the sense of massing);
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