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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 - Hasn't he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted the money paid for us!

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, "I have become a resident 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 of whom was named Gershom (for Moses had said, "I have been 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 her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil 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 exact payment from a foreigner, but whatever your fellow Israelite owes you, you must remit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - you must select without fail a king whom the LORD your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens you must appoint a king - you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - You may lend with interest to a foreigner, but not to your fellow Israelite; if you keep this command the LORD your God will bless you in all you undertake in the land you are about to enter to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - The generation to come - your descendants who will rise up after you, as well as the foreigner who will come from distant places - will see the afflictions of that land and the illnesses that the LORD has brought on it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - But his master said to him, "We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah."

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, "Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, "Why should you come with us? Go back and stay with the new king, for you are a foreigner and an exile from your own country.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - "Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your reputation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh's daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - "Foreigners, who do not belong to your people Israel, will come from a distant land because of your great reputation and your ability to accomplish mighty deeds; they will come and direct their prayers toward this temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - Then listen from your heavenly dwelling place and answer all the prayers of the foreigners. Then all the nations of the earth will acknowledge your reputation, obey you like your people Israel do, and recognize that this temple I built belongs to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

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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 behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - Now give praise to the LORD God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives."

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - Let our leaders take steps on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter."

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - It was determined that from the descendants of the priests, the following had taken foreign wives: from the descendants of Jeshua 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 taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon 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 the foreign wives made even him sin!

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?"

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - lest strangers devour your strength, and your labor benefit another man's house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 - Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - for a prostitute is like a deep pit; a harlot is like a narrow well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 - Take a man's garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for a stranger, hold him in pledge.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor - instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - Indeed, O LORD, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - I planted you in the land like a special vine of the very best stock. Why in the world have you turned into something like a wild vine that produces rotten, foul-smelling grapes?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance is turned over to strangers; foreigners now occupy our homes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Oba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - You stood aloof while strangers took his army captive, and foreigners advanced to his gates. When they cast lots over Jerusalem, you behaved as though you were in league with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - "On the day of the LORD's sacrificial meal, I will punish the princes and the king's sons, and all who wear foreign styles of clothing.
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