Lexicon :: Strong's H5237 - nāḵrî

“You shall not eat anything that dies on its own. You may give it to the stranger (resident alien, foreigner) who is in your [city] gates, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner [since they are not under God’s law], but you are a people holy (set apart) to the LORD your God. You shall not [fn]boil a young goat or a lamb in its mother’s milk.

“Now the next generation, your children who come after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of this land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it, will say,

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you go with us, too? Go back and stay with the king [of your own country], for you are a foreigner and an exile as well; return to your own place.

“Moreover, concerning a [fn]foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, but comes from a far (distant) country for the sake of Your name [to plead with You]

Now king Solomon [defiantly] loved [fn]many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

“Also in regard to the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty power and Your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this house,

“Those who live [temporarily] in my house and my maids consider me a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

I have become estranged from my brothers

And an alien to my mother’s sons.

To keep you from the immoral woman;

From the seductress with her flattering words,

And strangers will be filled with your strength

And your hard-earned wealth will go to the house of a foreigner [who does not know God];

Why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an immoral woman

And embrace the bosom of an outsider (pagan)?

To keep you from the evil woman,

From [the flattery of] the smooth tongue of an immoral woman.

That they may keep you from the immoral woman,

From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.

[The judge tells the creditor], “Take the clothes of one who is surety for a stranger;

And hold him in pledge [when he guarantees a loan] for foreigners.”

For a prostitute is a deep pit,

And an immoral woman is a narrow well.

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;

A stranger, and not your own lips.

[The judge tells the creditor,] “Take the garment of one who is surety (guarantees a loan) for a stranger;

And hold him in pledge when he is surety for an immoral woman [for it is unlikely the debt will be repaid].”

Most certainly [LORD] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,

Because they are filled with influences from the east,

And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines;

Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).

For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim,

He will be stirred up as in the Valley of Gibeon,

To do His work, His unusual and incredible work,

And to accomplish His work, His extraordinary work.

“Yet I had planted you [O house of Israel as] a choice vine,

A completely faithful seed.

How then have you turned against Me

Into degenerate shoots of a foreign and wild vine [alien to Me]?

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

Our houses to foreigners.

“On the day that [Jerusalem was destroyed] you stood aloof [from your brother Jacob]—

On the day that strangers took his forces captive and carried off his wealth,

And foreigners entered his gates

And cast lots for Jerusalem [dividing the city for plunder]—

You too were like one of them [collaborating with the enemy].

“Then it will come about on the day of the LORD’S sacrifice

That I will punish the princes and the king’s sons

And all who are clothed in [lavish] foreign apparel [reflecting their paganism].