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נׇכְרִי (H5237)

nokrîy

nok-ree'

from נֶכֶר (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful); alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

Brown–Driver–Briggs

נָכְרִי adj. foreign, alien

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.


45 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Genesis 31:15
    Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
  • Exodus 2:22
    And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
  • Exodus 18:3
    And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
  • Exodus 21:8
    If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
  • Deuteronomy 14:21
    Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
  • Deuteronomy 15:3
    Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
  • Deuteronomy 17:15
    Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
  • Deuteronomy 23:20
    Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
  • Deuteronomy 29:22
    So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the LORD hath laid upon it;
  • Judges 19:12
    And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah.