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(, (ヘブライ語:גוי), regular plural , or ) is the standard Hebrew biblical term for a "nation", including that of Israel. Long before Roman times it had also acquired the meaning of someone who is not Jewish.〔''The Cambridge history of Judaism'', Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 193. ISBN 978-0-521-24377-3〕 The latter is also its meaning in Yiddish. It is also used to refer to individuals from non-Jewish religious or ethnic groups; when used in this way in English, it occasionally has pejorative connotations. However, many people do not see the term "goy" as any more or less offensive than the term "gentile".〔''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'', Second Edition〕〔 }} 〕〔 〕 However, to avoid any perceived offensive connotations, writers may use the better-known English terms "gentile" or "non-Jew". The word nation has been the common translation of the Hebrew "goy", or "ethnesin" (ἔθνεσιν) in the LXX, from the earliest English language bibles such as the 1604 King James Version〔(KJV Gen 10 )〕 and the 1530 Tyndale Bible,〔Tyndale Gen 10〕 following the Latin Vulgate which used both gentile (and cognates) and nationes / nationibus. The term "nation" did not have the same political connotations it entails today.〔(Wiseman Gen 10 )〕 ==Biblical Hebrew== The word "goy" means nation in Biblical Hebrew. In the Torah, and its variants appear over 550 times in reference to Israelites and to Gentile nations. The first recorded usage of occurs in and applies innocuously to non-Israelite nations. The first mention in relation to the Israelites comes in , when God promises Abraham that his descendants will form a ("great nation"). In , the Jewish people are referred to as a ''goy kadosh'', a "holy nation". While the books of the Hebrew Bible often use to describe the Israelites, the later Jewish writings tend to apply the term to other nations. Some Bible translations leave the word untranslated and treat it as the proper name of a country in , where it states that the "King of Goyim" was Tidal. Bible commentaries suggest that the term may refer to Gutium. In all other cases in the Bible, "Goyim" is the plural of Goy and means "nations".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「goy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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