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The Biblical Hebrew word goy has been commonly translated into English as nation, [7] [8] meaning a group of persons of the same ethnic family who speak the same language (rather than the more common modern meaning of a political unit). [9] In the Bible, goy is used to describe both the Nation of Israel and other nations.
The most important of such Hebrew words was goy (גוי , plural, goyim), a term with the broad meaning of "people" or "nation" which was sometimes used to refer to Israelites, but with the plural form goyim tending to be used in the Bible to refer to non-Israelite nations. [8]
Israelites being properly the chosen people of God is found directly in the Book of Deuteronomy 7:6 [1] as the verb baḥar (בָּחַר), and is alluded to elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible using other terms such as "holy people" as goy or gentile, Book of Exodus 19:6. [2] Much is written about these topics in rabbinic literature.
The Hebrew Book of Job is part of Ketuvim ("Writings") of the Hebrew Bible. Not much is known about Job based on the Masoretic Text . The characters in the Book of Job consist of Job, his wife , his three friends ( Bildad , Eliphaz , and Zophar ), a man named Elihu , God , and angels .
Goy does not mean cattle. It means nation. The Bible referred to everything that was not Israel as "the nations". In modern Yiddish, the singular goy has come to mean Gentile through a reasonably obvious linguistic process. --Trovatore 00:13, 31 May 2014 (UTC) Agreed. (Incidentally, Jewish daily liturgy refers to the nation of Israel as a goy.)
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...
In the Hebrew Bible ger is defined as a "foreigner", or "sojourner". [7] Rabbi Marc Angel writes: The Hebrew ger (in post-Biblical times translated as "proselyte") literally means "resident" and refers to a non-Israelite who lived among the Israelite community.
In the Old Testament, Tidal (Hebrew: תִּדְעָל, Modern: Tīdʿal, Tiberian: Tīḏʿāl) is a king of Goyim.In the Book of Genesis (14:1), he is described as one of the four kings who fought Abraham in the Battle of Siddim.