Genesis 12:2
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
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Nation
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Revelation 14:6
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
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27 occurrences in 22 verses.
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Genesis
99 verses
Exodus
66 verses
Leviticus
22 verses
Numbers
11 verses
Deuteronomy
1412 verses
2 Samuel
11 verses
1 Kings
21 verses
2 Kings
21 verses
1 Chronicles
32 verses
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32 verses
Job
11 verses
Psalms
66 verses
Proverbs
11 verses
Isaiah
2017 verses
Jeremiah
2722 verses
Lamentations
11 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
Daniel
33 verses
Joel
11 verses
Amos
11 verses
Micah
32 verses
Habakkuk
11 verses
Zephaniah
22 verses
Haggai
11 verses
Malachi
11 verses
Matthew
32 verses
Mark
32 verses
Luke
43 verses
John
55 verses
Acts
1010 verses
Romans
11 verses
Galatians
11 verses
Philippians
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
Revelation
22 verses
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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גּוֹי
gôwy · go'-ee
109 times translated as this KJV form558 total Strong's occurrences
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
Strong's KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 12:2Strong's last: Malachi 3:9
Open full H1471 profile →ἔθνος
éthnos · eth'-nos
27 times translated as this KJV form165 total Strong's occurrences
a race (as of the same habit), i.e. a tribe; specially, a foreign (non-Jewish) one (usually, by implication, pagan)
Strong's KJV usage: :--Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 21:43Strong's last: Revelation 14:6
Open full G1484 profile →γένος
génos · ghen'-os
2 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
"kin" (abstract or concrete, literal or figurative, individual or collective)
Strong's KJV usage: :--born, country(-man), diversity, generation, kind(-red), nation, offspring, stock.
Strong's first: Mark 7:26Strong's last: Galatians 1:14
Open full G1085 profile →עַם
ʻam · am
2 times translated as this KJV form1,857 total Strong's occurrences
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Strong's KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 21:8Strong's last: Deuteronomy 28:33
Open full H5971 profile →ἀλλόφυλος
allóphylos · al-lof'-oo-los
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
foreign, i.e. (specially) Gentile
Strong's KJV usage: :--one of another nation.
Strong's first: Acts 10:28Strong's last: Acts 10:28
Open full G246 profile →γενεά
geneá · ghen-eh-ah'
1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
a generation; by implication, an age (the period or the persons)
Strong's KJV usage: :--age, generation, nation, time.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Philippians 2:15Strong's last: Philippians 2:15
Open full G1074 profile →אֶזְרָח
ʼezrâch · ez-rawkh'
1 times translated as this KJV form18 total Strong's occurrences
a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)
Strong's KJV usage: bay tree, (home-) born (in the land), of the (one's own) country (nation).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Leviticus 18:26Strong's last: Leviticus 18:26
Open full H249 profile →אֻמָּה
ʼummâh · oom-maw'
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: nation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 3:29Strong's last: Daniel 3:29
Open full H524 profile →לְאֹם
lᵉʼôm · leh-ome'
1 times translated as this KJV form35 total Strong's occurrences
a community
Strong's KJV usage: nation, people.
Strong's first: Isaiah 51:4Strong's last: Isaiah 51:4
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H1471
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
H1471
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
H1471
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
H1471
And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
H1471
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
H1471
I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
H1471
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
H1471
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
H1471
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!
H1471
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
H1471
Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
H1471
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
H1471
Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.
H1471
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
H3816
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
H1471
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
H1471
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
H1471
For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.
H1471
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.
H1471
I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
H1471
Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
H1471
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.
H1471
Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
H1471
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
H1471
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
English meaning and historical usage.
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nation
NATION, noun [to be born]
1. A body of people inhabiting the same country, or united under the same sovereign or government; as the English nation; the French nation It often happens that many nations are subject to one government; in which case, the word nation usually denotes a body of people speaking the same language, or a body that has formerly been under a distinct government, but has been conquered, or incorporated with a larger nation Thus the empire of Russia comprehends many nations, as did formerly the Roman and Persian empires. nation as its etymology imports, originally denoted a family or race of men descended from a common progenitor, like tribe, but by emigration, conquest and intermixture of men of different families, this distinction is in most countries lost.
2. A great number, by way of emphasis.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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