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Hebrew adjective · H5237

נׇכְרִי

nokrinok-ree'

foreign

45 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: nokrîy

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5237is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 19 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 30
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5237

strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)

The King James renders it: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

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

nokri is rendered "foreign". It stands 45 times in the Hebrew text, across nineteen books.

  • Nine of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 31:15Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.
  • The Greek text spells it thirty different ways.

The first use

Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

Genesis 31:15נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in nineteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 20 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • foreign15
  • a foreign5
  • a foreigner5
  • the foreigner5
  • the foreign3
  • alien2
  • foreigners2
  • from a foreign2
  • and a foreigner1
  • and foreigners1
  • and the foreigner1
  • to a foreigner1

and 2 more, 45 uses in all

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.

All 45, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

30 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

  • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃6
  • נָכְרִיּ֑וֹת4
  • הַנָּכְרִ֑י2
  • הַנָּכְרִיּֽוֹת׃2
  • מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה2
  • נָכְרִ֔י2
  • נָ֝כְרִ֗י2
  • נָכְרִיָּ֣ה2
  • נָכְרִיּ֛וֹת2
  • הַנָּכְרִ֖י1
  • הַנָּכְרִ֔י1
  • הַנָּכְרִ֗י1

and 18 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • adjective · feminine singular10HAafsa
  • adjective · feminine plural9HAafpa
  • adjective · masculine singular9HAamsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular5HTd/Aamsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine plural3HTd/Aafpa
  • preposition + adjective · feminine singular2HR/Aafsa
  • adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine plural1HC/Aampa
  • conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Td/Aamsa
  • preposition + adjective · masculine plural1HR/Aampa
  • preposition + adjective · masculine singular1HR/Aamsa

Genesis

one use
  • Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.

    Genesis 31:15

    • נָכְרִיּ֛וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreigners

Exodus

three uses
  • And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

    Exodus 2:22

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃ פnakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: foreign
  • along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

    Exodus 18:3

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: foreign
  • If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

    Exodus 21:8

    • נָכְרִ֛יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: foreign

Deuteronomy

five uses
  • You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

    Deuteronomy 14:21

    • לְנָכְרִ֔יlenakheripreposition + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to a foreigner
  • You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

    Deuteronomy 15:3

    • הַנָּכְרִ֖יhanakherithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the foreigner
  • you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

    Deuteronomy 17:15

    • נָכְרִ֔יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: foreign
  • You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

    Deuteronomy 23:20

    • לַנָּכְרִ֣יlanakheripreposition with the article + adjective · masculine singulartagged: to the foreigner
  • Then the generation to come—your sons who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land—will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the LORD has inflicted on it.

    Deuteronomy 29:22

    • וְהַ֨נָּכְרִ֔יvehanakhericonjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and the foreigner

Judges

one use
  • But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”

    Judges 19:12

    • נָכְרִ֔יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: foreign

Ruth

one use
  • At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

    Ruth 2:10

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreigner

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why should you also go with us? Go back and stay with the new king, since you are both a foreigner and an exile from your homeland.

    2 Samuel 15:19

    • נָכְרִ֣יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner

1 Kings

four uses
  • And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your name—

    1 Kings 8:41

    • הַנָּכְרִ֔יhanakherithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the foreigner
  • then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

    1 Kings 8:43

    • הַנָּכְרִ֑יhanakherithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the foreigner
  • King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

    1 Kings 11:1

    • נָכְרִיּ֛וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

    1 Kings 11:8

    • הַנָּכְרִיּ֑וֹתhanakheriyotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the foreign

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • And as for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of Your great name and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,

    2 Chronicles 6:32

    • הַנָּכְרִ֗יhanakherithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the foreigner
  • then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.

    2 Chronicles 6:33

    • הַנָּכְרִ֑יhanakherithe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the foreigner

Ezra

seven uses
  • Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.

    Ezra 10:2

    • נָכְרִיּ֖וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful by marrying foreign women, adding to the guilt of Israel.

    Ezra 10:10

    • נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • Now, therefore, make a confession to the LORD, the God of your fathers, and do His will. Separate yourselves from the people of the land and from your foreign wives.”

    Ezra 10:11

    • הַנָּכְרִיּֽוֹת׃hanakheriyotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the foreign
  • Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

    Ezra 10:14

    • נָכְרִיּוֹת֙nakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

    Ezra 10:17

    • נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers:

    Ezra 10:18

    • נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign
  • All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

    Ezra 10:44

    • נָכְרִיּ֑וֹתnakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign

Nehemiah

two uses
  • Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.

    Nehemiah 13:26

    • הַנָּכְרִיּֽוֹת׃hanakheriyotthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · feminine pluraltagged: the foreign
  • Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

    Nehemiah 13:27

    • נָכְרִיּֽוֹת׃nakheriyotadjective · feminine pluraltagged: foreign

Job

one use
  • My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.

    Job 19:15

    • נָ֝כְרִ֗יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner

Psalms

one use
  • I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,

    Psalms 69:8

    • וְ֝נָכְרִ֗יvenakhericonjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and a foreigner

Proverbs

nine uses
  • It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

    Proverbs 2:16

    • מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗הminakheriyahpreposition + adjective · feminine singulartagged: from a foreign
  • lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

    Proverbs 5:10

    • נָכְרִֽי׃nakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner
  • Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    Proverbs 5:20

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreign
  • to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

    Proverbs 6:24

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreign
  • that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

    Proverbs 7:5

    • מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗הminakheriyahpreposition + adjective · feminine singulartagged: from a foreign
  • Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Proverbs 20:16

    • נָכְרִיָּ֣הnakherimadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreign
  • For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

    Proverbs 23:27

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreign
  • Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

    Proverbs 27:2

    • נָ֝כְרִ֗יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: a foreigner
  • Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Proverbs 27:13

    • נָכְרִיָּ֣הnakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: a foreign

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

    Ecclesiastes 6:2

    • נָכְרִ֖יnakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: foreign

Isaiah

two uses
  • For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.

    Isaiah 2:6

    • נָכְרִ֖יםnakherimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: foreigners
  • For the LORD will rise up as at Mount Perazim. He will rouse Himself as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do His work, His strange work, and to perform His task, His disturbing task.

    Isaiah 28:21

    • נָכְרִיָּ֖הnakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: alien

Jeremiah

one use
  • I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

    Jeremiah 2:21

    • נָכְרִיָּֽה׃nakheriyahadjective · feminine singulartagged: alien

Lamentations

one use
  • Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

    Lamentations 5:2

    • לְנָכְרִֽים׃lenakherimpreposition + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: to foreigners

Obadiah

one use
  • On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.

    Obadiah 1:11

    • וְנָכְרִ֞יםvenakherimconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine pluraltagged: and foreigners

Zephaniah

one use
  • “On the Day of the LORD’s sacrifice I will punish the princes, the sons of the king, and all who are dressed in foreign apparel.

    Zephaniah 1:8

    • נָכְרִֽי׃nakheriadjective · masculine singulartagged: foreign

The letters

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.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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