Strong's Hebrew · H5237
H5237 nokrîy
נׇכְרִי
nok-ree'
alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
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nokrîy appears 45 times in Scripture, including Genesis 31:15 and Exodus 2:22. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
Derivation
from H5235 (נֶכֶר) (second form);
Appears 45 times in Scripture
“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.”
“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.”
“And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.””
“Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.”
“Are we not regarded by him as outsiders? Not only has he sold us, but he has certainly squandered what was paid for us.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.”
“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.”
“along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
