Lexicon :: Strong's H5236 - nēḵār

“Throughout your generations, every male among you is to be circumcised at eight days old ​— ​every male born in your household or purchased from any foreigner and not your offspring.

And all the men of his household ​— ​whether born in his household or purchased from a foreigner ​— ​were circumcised with him.

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.

“Neither you nor[fn] a foreigner are to present food to your God from any of these animals. They will not be accepted for you because they are deformed and have a defect.”

The LORD said to Moses, “You are about to rest with your ancestors, and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will abandon me and break the covenant I have made with them.

The LORD alone led him,

with no help from a foreign god.

“If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after he has been good to you.”

“Then get rid of the foreign gods that are among you and turn your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the LORD, and he became weary of Israel’s misery.

Samuel told them, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, get rid of the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths that are among you, set your hearts on the LORD, and worship only him. Then he will rescue you from the Philistines.”

Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear, they obey me.

He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the LORD’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the LORD’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their ancestors.

So I purified them from everything foreign and assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.

Foreigners submit to me cringing;

as soon as they hear they obey me.

“There must not be a strange god among you;

you must not bow down to a foreign god.

How can we sing the LORD’s song

on foreign soil?

Reach down[fn] from on high;

rescue me from deep water, and set me free

from the grasp of foreigners

Set me free and rescue me

from foreigners

whose mouths speak lies,

whose right hands are deceptive.

No foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD

should say,

“The LORD will exclude me from his people,”

and the eunuch should not say,

“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”

“As for the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD

to minister to him, to love the name of the LORD,

and to become his servants —

all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it

and who hold firmly to my covenant —

Foreigners will rebuild your walls,

and their kings will serve you.

Although I struck you in my wrath,

yet I will show mercy to you with my favor.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,

and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

The LORD has sworn with his right hand

and his strong arm:

I will no longer give your grain

to your enemies for food,

and foreigners will not drink the new wine

for which you have labored.

“When people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us? ’ You will respond to them, ‘Just as you abandoned me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’ 

Listen ​— ​the cry of my dear people

from a faraway land,

“Is the LORD no longer in Zion,

her King not within her? ”

Why have they angered me

with their carved images,

with their worthless foreign idols?

“When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to occupy my sanctuary, you defiled my temple while you offered my food ​— ​the fat and the blood. You[fn] broke my covenant by all your detestable practices.

“This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter my sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.

“He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will greatly honor those who acknowledge him,[fn] making them rulers over many and distributing land as a reward.

Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable act has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s sanctuary,[fn] which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.[fn]