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Job 12:23

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Masoretic Text 1524

H7679 He increaseth משׂגיא

H1471 the nations לגוים

H6 and destroyeth ויאבדם

H7849 them he enlargeth שׁטח

H1471 the nations לגוים

H5148 and straiteneth וינחם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

H7679 increaseth

the

H1471 nations

and

H6 destroyeth

them

H7849 enlargeth

the

H1471 nations

and

H5148 straiteneth

them

again

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H1471

Hebrew: גּוֹי

Transliteration: gôwy

Pronunciation: go'-ee

Part of Speech: Noun Masculine

Bible Usage: {Gentile} {heathen} {nation} people.

Definition:

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

1. nation, people

a. nation, people

1. usually of non-Hebrew people

2. of descendants of Abraham

3. of Israel

b. of swarm of locusts, other animals (fig.) n pr m

c. Goyim? = "nations"

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906