Goy (pl: goyim or goys) is a term for a gentile, a non-Jew, sometimes in a pejorative sense.
As a word principally used by Jews to describe non-Jews, In modern usage in English, the extent to which goy is derogatory is a point of discussion in the Jewish community.
The word "goy" is sometimes used by white supremacists and antisemites to refer to themselves when signaling a belief in antisemitic tropes.
Hebrew Bible
thumb|A page from [[Elia Levita's Yiddish-Hebrew-Latin-German dictionary (16th century) including the word goy (גוי), translated to Latin as ethnicus, meaning heathen or pagan.
The King James Version of the Bible translates the word / as "nation" 374 times, "heathen" 143 times, "Gentile" 30 times (see Evolution of the Term below) and "people" 11 times.
Evolution of the term
While the books of the Hebrew Bible often use to describe the Israelites, the later Jewish writings of the Hellenistic Period (from approximately 300 BCE to 30 BCE) tended to apply the term to other nations. Ophir and Rosen-Zvi state that the early Jewish convert to Christianity, Paul, was key in developing the concept of "goy" to mean non-Jew: