נׇכְרִיnokrîy
foreign, alien
Pronunciation: nok-ree' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5237
Meanings
1.
a. foreign (Exodus 21:8; Deuteronomy 17:15; Zephaniah 1:8)
b. foreigners, as substantive (Judges 19:12; 1 Kings 8:41; 2 Chronicles 6:32)
2. נָכְרִיָּה foreign woman, as technical term, in Proverbs, for harlot (perhaps because harlots were originally chiefly foreigners) (Proverbs 2:16; Proverbs 7:5; Proverbs 5:20)
3. unknown, unfamiliar (Job 19:15; Psalms 69:9; Ecclesiastes 6:2)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 45 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 31:15 He has reduced our rights to those of foreign women. And after he sold us, he wasted the money you paid him for us.
- Exodus 2:22 Later she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, for he explained, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 18:3 (Moses’ first son was named Gershom, for Moses had said when the boy was born, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- Exodus 21:8 If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her.
- Deuteronomy 14:21 “You must not eat anything that has died a natural death. You may give it to a foreigner living in your town, or you may sell it to a stranger. But do not eat it yourselves, for you are set apart as holy to the Lord your God. “You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 15:3 This release from debt, however, applies only to your fellow Israelites—not to the foreigners living among you.
See every passage
- Genesis 31:15
- Exodus 2:22, 18:3, 21:8
- Deuteronomy 14:21, 15:3, 17:15, 23:20, 29:22
- Judges 19:12
- Ruth 2:10
- 2 Samuel 15:19
- 1 Kings 8:41, 8:43, 11:1, 11:8
- 2 Chronicles 6:32, 6:33
- Ezra 10:2, 10:10, 10:11, 10:14, 10:17, 10:18, 10:44
- Nehemiah 13:26, 13:27
- Job 19:15
- Psalms 69:8
- Proverbs 2:16, 5:10, 5:20, 6:24, 7:5, 20:16, 23:27, 27:2, 27:13
- Ecclesiastes 6:2
- Isaiah 2:6, 28:21
- Jeremiah 2:21
- Lamentations 5:2
- Obadiah 1:11
- Zephaniah 1:8
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).