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Lexicon :: Strong's H5236 - nēḵār

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נֵכָר
Transliteration
nēḵār
Pronunciation
nay-kawr'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1368b

Strong’s Definitions

נֵכָר nêkâr, nay-kawr'; ' from H5234; foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom:—alien, strange (+ -er).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x

The KJV translates Strong's H5236 in the following manner: strange (17x), stranger (with H1121) (10x), stranger (7x), alien (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 35x
The KJV translates Strong's H5236 in the following manner: strange (17x), stranger (with H1121) (10x), stranger (7x), alien (1x).

  1. foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreign

    1. foreignness, foreign gods

    2. alien, foreigner

    3. foreign (vanities)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נֵכָר nêkâr, nay-kawr'; ' from H5234; foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom:—alien, strange (+ -er).
STRONGS H5236: Abbreviations
† נֵכָר noun [masculine] that which is foreign, foreignness **(properly unknown, compare Arabic √) (on formation compare LagBN 51, 154); — absolute נ׳ Judges 10:16 +, construct נֵכַרֿ Deuteronomy 31:16; — foreignness (of another family, tribe, or nation), especially
1. אֱלֹהֵי (הַ)נֵּכָר = foreign gods Genesis 35:2, 4; Joshua 24:20, 23 (all E, = אֲחֵרִים א׳ of D, compare אַחֵר), Judges 10:16; 1 Samuel 7:3; Jeremiah 5:19; 2 Chronicles 33:5; נֵכַרהָֿאָרֶץ א׳ Deuteronomy 31:16 = foreign gods of the land; singular אֵל נֵכָר Deuteronomy 32:12; Malachi 2:11; Psalm 81:10; אֱלוֺהַּ נ׳ Daniel 11:39.
2. בֶּןֿ(הַ)נֵּכָר = foreigner Genesis 17:12 (|| לֹא מִזַּרְעֲךָ), Genesis 17:27; Exodus 12:43 (all P), Leviticus 22:25 (H), Ezekiel 44:9 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 9:2; Isaiah 56:3; בְּנֵי (ה)נ׳ 2 Samuel 22:45, 46 = Psalm 18:45; Psalm 18:46; Ezekiel 44:7; Isaiah 56:6; Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 61:5; Isaiah 62:8; Psalm 144:7; Psalm 144:11.
3. other combinations: הַבְלֵי נ׳ Jeremiah 8:19 foreign vanities (idolatries); מִזְבְּחוֺת הַנּ׳ 2 Chronicles 14:2 foreign altars; אַדְמַת נ׳ Psalm 137:4 foreign soil; מִכָּלנֿ׳ Nehemiah 13:30 from everything foreign.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

17:12; 17:27; 35:2; 35:4

Exodus

12:43

Leviticus

22:25

Deuteronomy

31:16; 31:16; 32:12

Joshua

24:20; 24:23

Judges

10:16; 10:16

1 Samuel

7:3

2 Samuel

22:45; 22:46

2 Chronicles

14:2; 33:5

Nehemiah

9:2; 13:30

Psalms

18:45; 18:46; 81:10; 137:4; 144:7; 144:11

Isaiah

56:3; 56:6; 60:10; 61:5; 62:8

Jeremiah

5:19; 8:19

Ezekiel

44:7; 44:9

Daniel

11:39

Malachi

2:11

H5236

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5236 matches the Hebrew נֵכָר (nēḵār),
which occurs 36 times in 35 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:27 - and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:2 - And Jacob said to his house, and to all that were with him, Remove the strange gods that are with you from the midst of you, and purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:4 - And they gave to Jacob the strange gods, which were in their hands, and the ear-rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the turpentine tree which is in Secima, and [fn]destroyed them to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the passover: no stranger shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:25 - Neither shall ye offer the gifts of your God of all these things by the hand of a stranger, because there is corruption in them, a blemish in them: these shall not be accepted for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:16 - And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:12 - the Lord alone led them, there was no strange god with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - Whensoever ye shall forsake the Lord and serve other gods, then he shall come upon you and afflict you, and consume you, [fn]because he has done you good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:23 - And now take away the strange gods that are among you, and set your heart right toward the Lord God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to serve the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:45 - The strange children feigned obedience to me; they hearkened to me [fn]as soon as they heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:46

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:46 - The strange children shall be cast away, and shall be overthrown out of their hiding-places.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:3 - (LXX 14:2) And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - And he removed the strange gods and the graven image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars which he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and without the city.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:2 - And the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:30 - So I purged them from all foreign connection, and established courses for the priests and the Levites, every man according to his work.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:44

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:44 - (LXX 17:45) at the hearing of the ear they obeyed me: the strange children [fn]lied to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:45

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:45 - (LXX 17:46) The strange children waxed old, and fell away from their paths through lameness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 81:9 - (LXX 80:10) there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 137:4 - (LXX 136:4) How should we sing the Lord's song [fn]in a strange land?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:7 - (LXX 143:7) Send forth thine hand from on high; rescue me, and deliver me out of great [fn]waters, out of the hand of strange children;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 144:11 - (LXX 143:11) Deliver me, and rescue me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth has spoken vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:3 - Let not the stranger who attaches himself to the Lord, say, Surely the Lord will separate me from his people: and let not the eunuch say, I am a dry tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 56:6 - And I will give it to the strangers that attach themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be to him servants and handmaids; and as for all that keep my sabbaths from profaning them, and that take hold of my covenant;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 60:10 - And strangers shall build thy walls, and their kings shall wait upon thee: for by reason of my wrath I smote thee, and by reason of mercy I loved thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 61:5 - And strangers shall come and feed thy flocks, and aliens shall be thy ploughmen and vine-dressers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 62:8 - For the Lord has sworn by his glory, and by the might of his arm, I will no more give thy corn and thy provisions to thine enemies; nor shall strangers any more drink thy wine, for which thou hast laboured.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:19 - And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore has the Lord our God done all these things to us? that thou shalt say to them, Because ye served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:19 - Behold, there is a sound of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off: Is not the Lord in Sion? is there not a king there? because they have provoked me with their graven images, and with strange vanities.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:7 - that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:9 - Therefore thus saith the Lord God; No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 11:39 - And he shall do thus in the strong places of refuge with a strange god, and shall increase his glory: and he shall subject many to them, and shall distribute the land in gifts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:11 - Juda has been forsaken, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda has profaned the holy things of the Lord, which he delighted in, and has gone after other gods.
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