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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.
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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 - Are we not accounted by him as foreigners? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - thou shalt surely set him king over thee, whom Jehovah thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee; thou mayest not put a foreigner over thee, who is not thy brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - Unto a foreigner thou mayest lend upon interest; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon interest, that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all that thou puttest thy hand unto, in the land whither thou goest in to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath made it sick;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found favor in thy sight, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king: for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile; return to thine own place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for thy name’s sake

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thine outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then hear thou from heaven, even from thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let now our princes be appointed for all the assembly, and let all them that are in our cities that have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be despatched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they made an end with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had taken foreign 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 by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 -
They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger:
I am an alien in their sight.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 -
I am become a stranger unto my brethren,
And an alien unto my mother’s children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 -
To deliver thee from the strange woman,
Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 -
Lest strangers be filled with thy strength,
And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 -
For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman,
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 -
To keep thee from the evil woman,
From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 -
That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 -
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge that is surety for foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 -
For a harlot is a deep ditch;
And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 -
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth;
A stranger, and not thine own lips.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 -
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger;
And hold him in pledge that is surety for a foreign woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they are filled with customs from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine unto me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 -
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers,
Our houses unto aliens.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
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