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Lexicon :: Strong's H5237 - nāḵrî

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נָכְרִי
Transliteration
nāḵrî
Pronunciation
nok-ree'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
From נֶכֶר (H5235) (second form)
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TWOT Reference: 1368c

Strong’s Definitions

נׇכְרִי nokrîy, nok-ree'; from H5235 (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful):—alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x

The KJV translates Strong's H5237 in the following manner: stranger (18x), strange (17x), alien (4x), strange woman (3x), foreigner (2x), outlandish (1x), stranger (with H376) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 45x
The KJV translates Strong's H5237 in the following manner: stranger (18x), strange (17x), alien (4x), strange woman (3x), foreigner (2x), outlandish (1x), stranger (with H376) (1x).

  1. foreign, alien

    1. foreign

    2. foreigner (subst)

    3. foreign woman, harlot

    4. unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נׇכְרִי nokrîy, nok-ree'; from H5235 (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful):—alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
STRONGS H5237: Abbreviations
† נָכְרִי adjective foreign, alien (Late Hebrew נָכְרִי = Gentile); — נ׳ absolute masculine Zephaniah 1:8 +; feminine נָכְרִיָּה Exodus 2:22 +; masculine plural נָכְרִים Isaiah 2:6 + 2 times + Proverbs 20:16 Kt (> Qr נָכְרִיָּה), + Proverbs 27:13 (so read for MT נָכְרִיָּה); feminine plural נָכְרִיּוֺת Genesis 31:15 +; —
1.
a. foreign: עַם נָכְרִי Exodus 21:8 (E) a foreign (non-Israel) people, אִישׁ נ׳ Deuteronomy 17:15 (|| לֹא אָתִיךָ); מַלְבּוּשׁ נ׳ Zephaniah 1:8; אֶרֶץ נָכְרִיָּה Exodus 2:22 (J) foreign land, so Exodus 18:3 (E); especially נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign (non-Israel) women 1 Kings 11:18; Ezra 10:2, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 44; Nehemiah 13:26, 27.
b. as substantive נָכְרִי foreigner (non-Israel) Judges 19:12 (+ אֲשֶׁר לֹא מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל), 1 Kings 8:41 (+ אֲשֶׁר לֹא מֵעַמְּךָ), = 2 Chronicles 6:32 (+ id.), 1 Kings 8:43 2 Chronicles 6:33; Deuteronomy 14:21 (|| גֵּר), Deuteronomy 15:3; Deuteronomy 23:21 (opposed to אָחִיךָ), Deuteronomy 29:21 (+ אֲשֶׁר יָבאֹ מֵאֶרֶץ רְחוֺקָה); as predicate, 2 Samuel 15:19 (|| גֹּלֶה), נָכְרִיָּה Ruth 2:10; plural נָכְרִים foreigners Lamentations 5:2 (זָרִים), Obadiah 11 (|| id.); compare יַלְדֵי נָכְרִים Isaiah 2:6; feminine plural alien women Genesis 31:15 (E; i.e. not of one's father's family).
2. נָכְרִיָּה foreign woman, as technical term, in Proverbs, for harlot (perhaps because harlots were originally chiefly foreigners): Proverbs 2:16 (|| אִשָּׁה זָרָה), Proverbs 7:5 (|| id.), Proverbs 5:20 (|| זָרָה), Proverbs 6:24 (|| אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע), Proverbs 23:27 (|| זוֺנָה). — On Proverbs 20:16; Proverbs 27:13 see below.
3. figurative unknown, unfamiliar: נָכְרִי הָיִיתִי בְּעֵינֵיהֶם Job 19:15 an alien am I become in their eyes; לִבְנֵי אִמִּי נ׳ Psalm 69:9 (|| מוּזָר הָיִיתִי לְאֶחָ֑י); אִישׁ נ׳ Ecclesiastes 6:2; of י׳'s judgment, נָכְרִיָּה עֲבֹדָתוֺ Isaiah 28:21 strange is his task! (|| זָר מַעֲשֵׂהוּ); גֶּפֶן נָכְרִיָּה Jeremiah 2:21 an alien vine (opposed to זֶרַע אֱמֶת), figurative of degenerate Israel; as substantive, נָכְרִים Proverbs 20:16 Kt (> Qr נָכְרִיָּה), alens, persons unknown to him (|| זָר), so read also (for MT נָכְרִיָּה) || Proverbs 27:13.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

31:15; 31:15

Exodus

2:22; 2:22; 18:3; 21:8

Deuteronomy

14:21; 15:3; 17:15; 23:21; 29:21

Judges

19:12

Ruth

2:10

2 Samuel

15:19

1 Kings

8:41; 8:43; 11:18

2 Chronicles

6:32; 6:33

Ezra

10:2; 10:10; 10:11; 10:14; 10:17; 10:18; 10:44

Nehemiah

13:26; 13:27

Job

19:15

Psalms

69:9

Proverbs

2:16; 5:20; 6:24; 7:5; 20:16; 20:16; 20:16; 23:27; 27:13; 27:13; 27:13

Ecclesiastes

6:2

Isaiah

2:6; 2:6; 28:21

Jeremiah

2:21

Lamentations

5:2

Obadiah

1:11

Zephaniah

1:8; 1:8

H5237

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5237 matches the Hebrew נָכְרִי (nāḵrî),
which occurs 45 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not considered strangers by him? for he has sold us, and quite devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And the woman conceived and bore a son, and Moses called his name Gersam, saying, I am a sojourner in a strange land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons: the name of the one was Gersam, his father saying, I was a sojourner in a strange land;—

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she be not pleasing to her master, [fn]after she has betrothed herself to him, he shall let her go free; but he is not at liberty to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has trifled with her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in thy cities and he shall eat it, or thou shalt sell it to a stranger, because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a stranger thou shalt ask again whatsoever he has of thine, but to thy brother thou shalt remit his debt to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - thou shalt surely set over thee the ruler whom the Lord God shall choose: of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a ruler; thou shalt not have power to set over thee a stranger, because he is not thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - (LXX 23:21) Thou mayest lend on usury to a stranger, but to thy brother thou shalt not lend on usury; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all thy works upon the land, into which thou art entering to inherit it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - (LXX 29:21) And another generation shall say—even your sons who shall rise up after you, and the stranger who shall come from a land afar off, and shall see the plagues of that land and their diseases, which the Lord has sent upon it,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - And his master said to him, We will not turn aside to a strange city, where there is not one of the children of Israel, but we will pass on as far as Gabaa.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - And she fell upon her face, and did reverence to the ground, and said to him, How is it that I have found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take notice of me, whereas I am a stranger?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - And the king said to Ethi the Gittite, Why dost thou also go with us? return, and dwell with the king, for thou art a stranger, and thou hast come forth as a sojourner out of thy place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - And for the stranger who is not of thy people,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - then shalt thou hear them from heaven, out of thine established dwelling-place, and thou shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call upon thee for, that all the nations may know thy name, and fear thee, as do thy people Israel, and may know that thy name has been called on this house which I have builded.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - And king Solomon was a lover of women. And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines. And he took strange women, as well as the daughter of Pharao, Moabitish, Ammanitish women, Syrians and Idumeans, Chettites, and Amorites;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - (LXX 11:7) And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - And every stranger who is not himself of thy people Israel, and who shall have come from a distant land because of thy great name, and thy mighty hand, and thy high arm; when they shall come and worship toward this place;—

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then shalt thou hearken out of heaven, out of thy prepared dwelling-place, and shalt do according to all that the stranger shall call upon thee for; that all the nations of the earth may know thy name, and that they may fear thee, as thy people Israel do, and that they may know that thy name is called upon this house which I have built.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Sechenias the son of Jeel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Esdras, We have broken covenant with our God, and have taken strange wives of the nations of the land: yet now there is patience of hope to Israel concerning this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, Ye have broken covenant, and have taken strange wives, to add to the trespass of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do that which is pleasing in his sight: and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the strange wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let now our rulers stand, and for all those in our cities who have taken strange wives, let them come at appointed times, and with them elders from every several city, and judges, to turn away the fierce wrath of our God from us concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they made an end with all the men who had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - And there were found some of the sons of the priests who had taken strange wives: of the sons of Jesus the son of Josedec, and his brethren; Maasia, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gadalia.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had taken strange wives, and had begotten sons of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God, —to marry strange wives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - As for my household, and my maid-servants, I was a stranger before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - (LXX 68:9) I became strange to my brethren, and a stranger to my mother's children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - to remove thee far from the straight way, and to estrange thee from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake thee,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours come into the houses of strangers;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Be not intimate with a strange woman, neither fold thyself in the arms of a woman not thine own.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - to keep thee continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let thy neighbour, and not thine own mouth, praise thee; a stranger, and not thine own lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 - Take away the man's garment, (for a scorner has passed by) whoever lays waste another's goods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - a man to whom God shall give wealth, and substance, and honour, and he wants nothing for his soul of all things that he shall desire, yet God shall not give him power to eat of it, for a stranger shall devour it: this is vanity, and an evil infirmity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For he has forsaken his people the house of Israel, because their land is filled as at the beginning with divinations, as the land of the [fn]Philistines, and many strange children were born to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The Lord shall rise up as a mountain of ungodly men, and shall be in the valley of Gabaon; he shall perform his works with wrath, even a work of bitterness, and his wrath shall deal strangely, and his destruction shall be strange.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I planted thee a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort: how art thou a strange vine turned to bitterness!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - From the day that thou stoodest in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, thou also wast as one of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - And it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice, that I will take vengeance on the princes, and on the king's house, and upon all that wear strange apparel.
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