Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5236
נֵכָר
nekarnay-kawr'
foreign
36 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: nêkâr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5236is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5236
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
The King James renders it: alien, strange ([phrase] -er).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
nekar is rendered "foreign". It stands 36 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Six of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 17:12Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
Genesis 17:12נֵכָ֔ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- foreignness26
- the foreignness9
- the foreignness of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 36, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נֵכָֽר׃6
- נֵכָ֔ר4
- נֵכָ֑ר4
- הַנֵּכָר֙3
- נֵכָ֖ר3
- נֵכָ֗ר3
- נֵכָר֙3
- הַנֵּכָ֖ר2
- הַנֵּכָ֗ר2
- הַנֵּכָ֛ר1
- הַנֵּכָ֤ר1
- נֵ֝כָ֗ר1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular26HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
Genesis
four uses
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- נֵכָ֔רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
- נֵכָ֑רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- הַנֵּכָר֙hanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
- הַנֵּכָר֙hanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
Exodus
one use
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
- נֵכָ֖רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Leviticus
one use
Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”
- נֵכָ֗רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Deuteronomy
two uses
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
- נֵֽכַר־nekhar-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the foreignness of
The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Joshua
two uses
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”
- נֵכָ֑רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
- הַנֵּכָ֖רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
Judges
one use
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and He could no longer bear the misery of Israel.
- הַנֵּכָר֙hanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
1 Samuel
one use
Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
- הַנֵּכָ֛רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
2 Samuel
two uses
Foreigners cower before me; when they hear me, they obey me.
- נֵכָ֖רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
- נֵכָ֖רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
2 Chronicles
two uses
He removed the foreign altars and high places, shattered the sacred pillars, and chopped down the Asherah poles.
- הַנֵּכָ֖רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- הַנֵּכָ֤רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
Nehemiah
two uses
Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all the foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.
- נֵכָ֑רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Thus I purified the priests and Levites from everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to each of the priests and Levites.
- נֵכָ֑רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Psalms
six uses
When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
- נֵ֝כָ֗רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Foreigners lose heart and come trembling from their strongholds.
- נֵכָ֥רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
- נֵ֫כָ֥רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Isaiah
five uses
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
- הַנֵּכָ֗רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
- הַנֵּכָ֗רhanekharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the foreignness
Foreigners will rebuild your walls, and their kings will serve you. Although I struck you in anger, yet in favor I will show you mercy.
- נֵכָר֙nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.
- נֵכָ֔רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.
- נֵכָר֙nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Jeremiah
two uses
And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
- נֵכָר֙nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Ezekiel
three uses
In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant.
- נֵכָ֗רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.
- נֵכָ֗רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
- נֵכָ֔רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Daniel
one use
He will attack the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god and will greatly honor those who acknowledge him, making them rulers over many and distributing the land for a price.
- נֵכָ֔רnekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Malachi
one use
Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.
- נֵכָֽר׃nekharnoun · masculine singulartagged: foreignness
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.