Goy - Wikipedia The meaning of the word goy in Hebrew evolved to mean "non-Jew" in the Hellenistic (300 BCE to 30 BCE) and Roman periods, as both Rabbinical texts and then Christian theology placed increasing emphasis on a binary division between Jews and non-Jews
GOY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com In Yiddish and Hebrew, goy is a neutral, descriptive term meaning gentile In English, it may sometimes be used disparagingly or contemptuously The word is also considered disparaging when it is applied to a Jew who is not observant
Strongs Hebrew: 1471. גּוֹי (goy) -- Nation, people, Gentile גּוֹי (goy) -- Nation, people, Gentile Rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}; apparently from the same root as gevah (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
goy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary goy (plural goyim or goys or goyem or goyin) (sometimes offensive) A non- Jew, a gentile I don’t think that marriage is working, but I’m not going to be stupid about it and say she shouldn’t have married a goy
What does goy mean? - Definitions. net A goy, derived from a Hebrew term, is a non-Jewish individual or, more broadly, refers to any nation that isn't Jewish It is used in the Jewish religion to refer to someone who is not a Jew Goy is the standard Hebrew biblical term for a "nation," including the "great nation" of Israel