Lexicon :: Strong's H5237 - nāḵrî

“Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? For he has sold us and has certainly spent our purchase price.

She gave birth to a son whom he named Gershom,[fn] for he said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land.”

along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom[fn] (because Moses had said, “I have been a resident alien in a foreign land”)

“If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.

“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to a resident alien within your city gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

“You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

“you are to appoint over you the king the LORD your God chooses. Appoint a king from your brothers. You are not to set a foreigner over you, or one who is not of your people.

“You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother Israelite interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you do[fn] in the land you are entering to possess.

“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

But his master replied to him, “We will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites. Let’s move on to Gibeah.”

She fell facedown, bowed to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor with you, so that you notice me, although I am a foreigner? ”

The king said to Ittai of Gath, “Why are you also going with us? Go back and stay with the new king since you’re both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant land

because of your name —

may you hear in heaven, your dwelling place,

and do according to all the foreigner asks.

Then all peoples of earth will know your name,

to fear you as your people Israel do

and to know that this temple I have built

bears your name.

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

He did the same for all his foreign wives, who were burning incense and offering sacrifices to their gods.

Even for the foreigner who is not of your people Israel

but has come from a distant land

because of your great name

and your strong hand and outstretched arm:

when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, responded to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the surrounding peoples, but there is still hope for Israel in spite of this.

Then the priest Ezra stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.

“Let our leaders represent the entire assembly. Then let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each town, in order to avert the fierce anger of our God concerning[fn] this matter.”

and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

All of these had married foreign women, and some of the wives had given birth to children.

“Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

My house guests[fn] and female servants regard me as a stranger;

I am a foreigner in their sight.

I have become a stranger to my brothers

and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,

from a wayward woman with her flattering talk,

strangers will drain your resources,

and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Why, my son, would you lose yourself

with a forbidden woman

or embrace a wayward woman?

They will protect you from an evil woman,[fn]

from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,

a wayward woman with her flattering talk.

Take his garment,

for he has put up security for a stranger;

get collateral if it is for foreigners.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,

and a wayward woman is a narrow well;

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth —

a stranger, and not your own lips.

Take his garment,

for he has put up security for a stranger;

get collateral if it is for foreigners.[fn]

God gives a person riches, wealth, and honor so that he lacks nothing of all he desires for himself, but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a sickening tragedy.

For you have abandoned your people,

the house of Jacob,

because they are full of divination from the East

and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines.

They are in league[fn] with foreigners.

For the LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim.

He will rise in wrath, as at the Valley of Gibeon,

to do his work, his unexpected work,

and to perform his task, his unfamiliar task.

I planted you, a choice vine

from the very best seed.

How then could you turn into

a degenerate, foreign vine?

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to foreigners.

On the day you stood aloof,

on the day strangers captured his wealth,[fn]

while foreigners entered his city gate

and cast lots for Jerusalem,

you were just like one of them.

On the day of the LORD’s sacrifice

I will punish the officials, the king’s sons,

and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.