אֶזְרָחʼezrâch
a spontaneous growth, i.e. native (tree or persons)
Pronunciation: ez-rawkh' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H249
Meanings
a native
1. a native Israelite, usually collective, with article (Leviticus 23:42; Numbers 15:13; Numbers 15:29)
2. a native tree, growing in its natural soil (Psalms 37:35)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 17 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 12:19 During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
- Exodus 12:48 “If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.
- Exodus 12:49 This instruction applies to everyone, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner living among you.”
- Leviticus 16:29 “On the tenth day of the appointed month in early autumn, you must deny yourselves. Neither native-born Israelites nor foreigners living among you may do any kind of work. This is a permanent law for you.
- Leviticus 17:15 “And if any native-born Israelites or foreigners eat the meat of an animal that died naturally or was torn up by wild animals, they must wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. They will remain ceremonially unclean until evening, but then they will be clean.
- Leviticus 18:26 You must obey all my decrees and regulations. You must not commit any of these detestable sins. This applies both to native-born Israelites and to the foreigners living among you.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).