/-----/ I never take a Jew hater at his word:
goyim
1. A Hebrew word used in the Jewish Scriptures (a.k.a. the Old Testament).
The word literally means "nations," and is
always used within these scriptures to refer
to the nations of the world. Significantly, within the Old Testament, Judah (the Jewish nation) itself is called a "
goy."
2. In the Old Testament, the Jews were called to be a nation separate from the other nations, which were all Pagan. And so, colloquially, all non-Jewish nations
came to be called "goyim" as in "the nations" from which the God of the Old Testament had called upon the Jews to separate themselves.