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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 46 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Does he not regard us as foreigners? Not only has he sold us, but he has used up what was paid for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,[fn] saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons. One son was named Gershom,[fn] for Moses said, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land”;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[fn] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it, or you may sell it to any other foreigner. But you are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - You may require payment from a foreigner, but you must cancel any debt your fellow Israelite owes you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - be sure to appoint over you a king the LORD your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - Your children who follow you in later generations and foreigners who come from distant lands will see the calamities that have fallen on the land and the diseases with which the LORD has afflicted it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - His master replied, “No. We won’t go into any city whose people are not Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - At this, she bowed down with her face to the ground. She asked him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you notice me—a foreigner?”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - The king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you come along with us? Go back and stay with King Absalom. You are a foreigner, an exile from your homeland.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name—

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm—when they come and pray toward this temple,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear from heaven, your dwelling place. Do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel, and may know that this house I have built bears your Name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples around us. But in spite of this, there is still hope for Israel.

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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; you have married foreign women, adding to Israel’s guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now honor[fn] the LORD, the God of your ancestors, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the peoples around you and from your foreign wives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let our officials act for the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at a set time, along with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - Among the descendants of the priests, the following had married foreign women: From the descendants of Joshua 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 women, and some of them had children by these wives.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Must we hear now that you too are doing all this terrible wickedness and are being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - My guests and my female servants count me a foreigner; they look on me as on a stranger.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - I am a foreigner to my own family, a stranger to my own mother’s children;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 - Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - for an adulterous woman is a deep pit, and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth; an outsider, and not your own lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 - Take the garment of one who puts up security for a stranger; hold it in pledge if it is done for an outsider.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them, and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - You, LORD, have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and embrace pagan customs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - The LORD will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild 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 homes to foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were like one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - “On the day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the officials and the king’s sons and all those clad in foreign clothes.
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