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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)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 46 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - “Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? H5237 For he has sold us, and has also [fn]entirely consumed [fn]our purchase price.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him [fn]Gershom, for he said, “I have been a [fn]sojourner in a foreign H5237 land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons, of whom [fn]one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a [fn]sojourner in a foreign H5237 land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - “If she is [fn]displeasing in the eyes of her master [fn]who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign H5237 people because of his [fn]unfairness to her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - “You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your [fn]town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, H5237 for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - “From a foreigner H5237 you may exact it, but your hand shall release whatever of yours is with your brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your [fn]countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner H5237 over yourselves who is not your [fn]countryman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - “You may charge interest to a foreigner, H5237 but to your [fn]countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all [fn]that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to [fn]possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner H5237 who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the LORD has [fn]afflicted it, will say,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - However, his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners H5237 who are not of the sons of Israel; but we will go on as far as Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?” H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner H5237 and also an exile; return to your own place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - “Also concerning the foreigner H5237 who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner H5237 calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, to [fn]fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that [fn]this house which I have built is called by Your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - Now King Solomon loved many foreign H5237 women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - Thus also he did for all his foreign H5237 wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “Also concerning the foreigner H5237 who is not from Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great name’s sake and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven, from Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner H5237 calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name, and [fn]fear You as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that [fn]this house which I have built is called by Your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have [fn]married foreign H5237 women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign H5237 wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - “Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign H5237 wives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Let our leaders [fn]represent the whole assembly and let all those in our cities who have married foreign H5237 wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of each city, until the fierce anger of our God on account of this matter is turned away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - They finished investigating all the men who had married foreign H5237 wives by the first day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - Among the sons of the priests who had married foreign H5237 wives were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib and Gedaliah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had married foreign H5237 wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - “Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign H5237 women caused even him to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - “[fn]Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by [fn]marrying foreign H5237 women?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - “Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner H5237 in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - I have become estranged [fn]from my brothers
And an alien H5237 to my mother’s sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the [fn]adulteress H5237 who flatters with her words;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - And strangers will be filled with your strength
And your hard-earned goods will go to the house of an alien; H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an [fn]adulteress
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - To keep you from the evil woman,
From the smooth tongue of the [fn]adulteress. H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - That they may keep you from an [fn]adulteress,
From the foreigner H5237 who [fn]flatters with her words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 - Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for foreigners, H5237 hold him in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep pit
And an [fn]adulterous H5237 woman H5237 is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let another praise you, and not your own mouth;
A stranger, H5237 and not your own lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 - Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for an [fn]adulterous H5237 woman H5237 hold him in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner H5237 [fn]enjoys them. This is [fn]vanity and a severe affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners. H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim,
He will be stirred up as in the valley of Gibeon,
To do His task, His [fn]unusual task,
And to work His work, His [fn]extraordinary H5237 work.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - “Yet I planted you a choice vine,
A completely faithful seed.
How then have you turned yourself before Me
Into the degenerate shoots of a foreign H5237 vine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens. H5237

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - “On the day that you stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners H5237 entered his gate
And cast lots for Jerusalem—
You too were as one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - “Then it will come about on the day of the LORD’S sacrifice
That I will punish the princes, the king’s sons
And all who clothe themselves with foreign H5237 garments.
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