Strong H1471H1471Bגּוֹיִם
Goiim
One of the 4 senses of Strong H1471
- Transliteration
- gôy gôy
- Pronunciation
- {go'ee} go'-ee
- Morphology
- Proper Name of a Location in Gentilic sense
Definition
People descended from Goy(?), first mentioned at Gen.14.1
General definition
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.
In the biblical story
Goiim
A king of Goyim who fought against Chedorlaomer.
Tidal, king of Goiim (nations), was one of the kings who fought against Chedorlaomer in Genesis 14.
In the Bible
Strong H1471B appears in 3 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- nation3
First verses
- Genesis 14:1And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;
- Genesis 14:9With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
- Joshua 12:23The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one;