נׇכְרִי nokhri

Hebrew word for “foreign” · Strong’s H5237 · used 45 times in 45 verses

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Meaning

1) foreign, alien; 1a) foreign; 1b) foreigner (subst); 1c) foreign woman, harlot; 1d) unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)

How it is translated

Glosses given for nokhri in context, with how often each is used:

• foreign 18
• foreigner 14
• foreign woman 7
• foreigners 4
• alien 2

Where it is used

Also in 7 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezra 10 (7), 1 Kings 8 (2), 1 Kings 11 (2), 2 Chronicles 6 (2), Nehemiah 13 (2), Proverbs 5 (2), Proverbs 27 (2), Genesis 31 (1), Exodus 2 (1), Exodus 18 (1)

Forms

• נכריה 10
• נכריות 9
• נכרי 9
• הנכרי 5
• הנכריות 3
• לנכרי 2
• מנכריה 2
• והנכרי 1
• ונכרי 1
• נכרים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with nokhri more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זוּר zur “be a stranger” 12
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 14
• יָשַׁב yashav “to dwell” 9
• מַעַן maan “because” 5
• אַתָּה attah “you(m.s.)” 7
• גַּם gam “also” 6
• שֵׁם shem “name” 6
• מָעַל maal “be unfaithful” 3
• אָח ach “brother” 5
• מָכַר makhar “to sell” 3
• גֵּר ger “sojourner” 3
• רָחֹק rachoq “distant” 3

Key verses

The verses using nokhri that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 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…
• 1 Kings 8:41 — Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
• 1 Kings 8:43 — Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may know thy name, to fear…
• 1 Kings 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
• 2 Chronicles 6:32 — Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy…
• Ezra 10:2 — And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the…
• Ezra 10:11 — Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange…
• Proverbs 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
• Ecclesiastes 6:2 — A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat…
• Isaiah 2:6 — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they…
• Isaiah 28:21 — For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his…
• Jeremiah 2:21 — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.