someone has written "...Just ask an israeli what is a "gohim"?.."
So, does anyone know what it means
2006-08-09 11:47:17 · 4 answers · asked by ferhat 3 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
goyim is a non-jew
2006-08-09 11:50:21 · answer #1 · answered by bradcymru 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jews use the words "goy" and "goyim" to mean someone who is not Jewish. Muslims use the words "kufir" and "kaffir" to describe a person who is not a Muslims. However, goyim is not pejorative whereas kaffir is pejorative.
Jihad fee sybil Allah (jihad in the path of God) is against the kaffir to rid the world of fitnah (disbelief). There is no equivalent in Judaism of purging the world of goyim.
Goy (noun, plural: goyim). A Hebrew and Yiddish word meaning someone who is not Jewish.
The word "goy" means "nation," and refers to the fact that goyim are members of other nations, that is, nations other than the Children of Israel.
There is nothing inherently insulting about the word "goy." In fact, the Torah occasionally refers to the Jewish people using the term "goy." Most notably, in Exodus 19:6, G-d says that the Children of Israel will be "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation," that is, a goy kadosh.
By contrast, the Arabic term "kafir (pl. kuffar)" is pejorative and means withholder of the truth as well as non-Muslim or unbeliever. Akafir may be a person who does not believe in God or the oneness of God or both in God and the Prophethood of Mohammad.
The Prophet Muhammad used the word kafir in a variety of ways. Ingratitude, for instance, is equated with Kufr. Similarly excessive eating or gluttony is considered by the Prophet one of the attributes of a kafir. A Muslim killing another Muslim becomes a kafir. In a strict sense even neglect of prayer, according to some narrators of Hadees is placed in the definition of Kufr and places the Muslim outside the religion of Islam. Someone who conforms to the obligations of prayer yet neglects it out of laziness or the pretence of being too busy (without a valid legal excuse) would attract the provisions of Kufr. According to some scholars like Malik and Shafe'i, such a person is an evil-doer and should indeed be killed.
Jihad fee sybil Allah (jihad in the path of God) is against the kaffir to rid the world of fitnah (disbelief). There is no equivalent in Judaism of purging the world of goyim.
2006-08-09 19:30:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the Israeli equivalent of infidel - except I have never heard any Israelis calling for the murder of all goyim.
2006-08-09 12:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by carl l 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Goy means foreigner or now non-Jew.
Goyim iis the plural of goy.
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2006-08-09 11:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋