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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 - Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as 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. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moshe said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she doesn't please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, seeing he has dealt deceitfully with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to the LORD your God. You shall 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 you may exact it: but whatever of your is with your brother your hand shall release.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you shall surely set him king over you, whom the LORD your God shall choose: one from among your brothers shall you set king over you; you may not put a foreigner over you, who is not your brother.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Yisra'el; but we will pass over to Gevah.

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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 to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should 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, Why go you also with us? return, and abide with the king: for you are a foreigner, and also an exile; return to your own place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisra'el, when he shall come out of 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 that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the eretz may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Yisra'el, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - Now king Shlomo loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Par`oh, women of the Mo`avim, `Ammonim, Edom, Tzidonim, and Hitti;

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Yisra'el, when he shall come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your 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 from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the eretz may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Yisra'el, and that they may know that 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 - Shekhanyahu the son of Yechi'el, one of the sons of `Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Yisra'el concerning this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - Ezra the Kohen stood up, and said to them, You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now therefore make confession to the LORD, 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 those who are in our cities who have married foreign women come at appointed times, and with them the Zakenim of every city, and the judges of it, until the fierce wrath of our God be turned from us, until this matter be dispatched.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - They made an end with all the men who 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 - Among the sons of the Kohanim there were found who had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma`aseyah, and Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu.

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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 Shlomo king of Yisra'el 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 Yisra'el: 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 listen to 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 - Those who 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 have become a stranger to my brothers, An alien to my mother's children.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - Lest strangers feast on your wealth, And your labors enrich another man's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 - Take the garment of one who puts up collateral for a stranger; And hold him in pledge for a wayward woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a prostitute 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 another man praise you, And not your own mouth; A stranger, 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 puts up collateral for a stranger; Hold it for a wayward woman!

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats 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 you have forsaken your people, the house of Ya`akov, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Pelishtim, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - For the LORD will rise up as on Mount Perazim, he will be angry as in the valley of Giv`on; 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 you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then are you turned into the degenerate branches of a foreign vine to me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Yerushalayim, even you were like one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - It will happen in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, the king's sons, and all those who as are clothed with foreign clothing.
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