Goy
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goy-182-5220990
title:
Goy
text:
In modern Hebrew and Yiddish, goy is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew. Through Yiddish, the word has been adopted into English also to mean "gentile", sometimes in a pejorative sense. As a word principally used by Jews to describe non-Jews, it is a term for the ethnic out-group. The Biblical Hebrew word goy has been commonly translated into English as nation, meaning a group of persons of the same ethnic family who speak the same language. In the Bible, goy is used to describe both the Nation of
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Word meaning 'non-Jew'
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goy
date created:
2002-10-31T17:04:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T11:34:59Z
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