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Lexicon :: Strong's H5237 - nāḵrî

Aa
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 BoxGen 31:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:15 - Are we not as people from a strange country to him? for he took a price for us and now it is all used up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:8 - If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You may not have as food anything which has come to a natural death; the man from another country who is living with you may take it for food, or you may get a price for it from one of another nation; for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. The young goat is not to be cooked in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 15:3 - A man of another nation may be forced to make payment of his debt, but if your brother has anything of yours, let it go;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:15 - Then see that you take as your king the man named by the Lord your God: let your king be one of your countrymen, not a man of another nation who is not one of yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:20 - From men of other nations you may take interest, but not from an Israelite: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on everything to which you put your hand, in the land which you are about to take as your heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:22 - And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:12 - But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel; but we will go on to Gibeah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:10 - Then she went down on her face to the earth, and said to him, Why have I grace in your eyes, that you give attention to me, seeing I am from a strange people?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:19 - Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, Why are you coming with us? go back and keep with the king: for you are a man of another country, you are far from the land of your birth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:41 - And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel; when he comes from a far country because of the glory of your name:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - Give ear in heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have put up is truly named by your name.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:1 - Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And so he did for all his strange wives, who made offerings with burning of perfumes to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 - And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:2 - And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:10 - And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:11 - So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:14 - So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned away from us, and this has been done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:17 - And they got to the end of all the men who were married to strange women by the first day of the first month.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:18 - And among the sons of the priests who were married to strange women were these: of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak and his brothers, Maaseiah and Eliezer and Jarib and Gedaliah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 10:44 - All these had taken strange wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had offspring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:26 - Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:27 - Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 19:15 - I am strange to my women-servants, and seem to them as one from another country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 69:8 - I have become strange to my brothers, and like a man from a far country to my mother's children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:10 - And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 5:20 - Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 6:24 - They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 20:16 - Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:27 - For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:2 - Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:13 - Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 6:2 - A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 2:6 - For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:21 - For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:21 - But when you were planted by me, you were a noble vine, in every way a true seed: how then have you been changed into the branching plant of a strange vine?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:2 - Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxOba 1:11 - Because you were there watching when men from other lands took away his goods, and strange men came into his doors, and put the fate of Jerusalem to the decision of chance; you were like one of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxZep 1:8 - And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.
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