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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom,[fn] for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - with her two sons, of whom the name of one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land”)[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - “If she does not please her master, who has betrothed her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since 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 anything that dies of itself; you may give it to the alien 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 young goat 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 require it; but you shall give up your claim to what is owed by your brother,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - “you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses; one from among your brethren you shall set as king over you; you may not set 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 charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - “so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the LORD has laid on it:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - But his master said to him, “We will not turn aside here into a city of foreigners, who are not of the children of Israel; we will go on to Gibeah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - So she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since 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 are you also going with us? Return and remain with the king. For you are a foreigner and also an exile from your own place.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from 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 for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - But King Solomon loved many foreign women, as well as 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 he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - “Moreover, concerning a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, but has come from a far country for the sake of Your great name and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray in this temple;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - “then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, that all peoples of the earth may know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and that they may know that this temple which I have built is called by Your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, “We have trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan wives from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope in Israel in spite of this.

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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 transgressed and have taken pagan wives, adding to the guilt of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - “Now therefore, make confession to the LORD God of your fathers, and do His will; separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the pagan wives.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - “Please, let the leaders of our entire assembly stand; and let all those in our cities who have taken pagan wives come at appointed times, together with the elders and judges of their cities, until the fierce wrath 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 - By the first day of the first month they finished questioning all the men who had taken pagan wives.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - And among the sons of the priests who had taken pagan wives the following were found of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak,[fn] 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 pagan 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 there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - “Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - Those who dwell in my house, and my maidservants,
Count me as 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,
And 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 immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words,

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - Lest aliens be filled with your wealth,
And your labors go to the house of a foreigner;

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman,
And be embraced in the arms of a seductress?

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - To keep you from the evil woman,
From the flattering tongue of a seductress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress 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 is surety for a stranger,
And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a harlot is a deep pit,
And a seductress 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 the garment of him who is surety for a stranger,
And hold it in pledge when he is surety for a seductress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with eastern ways;
They are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they are pleased 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 at Mount Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of Gibeon—
That He may do His work, His awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His unusual act.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - Yet I had planted you a noble vine, a seed of highest quality.
How then have you turned before Me
Into the degenerate plant of an alien vine?

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,
And our houses to foreigners.

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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 captive his forces,
When foreigners entered his gates
And cast lots for Jerusalem—
Even you were as one of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - “And it shall be,
In the day of the LORD’s sacrifice,
That I will punish the princes and the king’s children,
And all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.
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