Berean BlueOpen the app

nokh.ri H5237

נׇכְרִי (nokh.ri) means “foreign” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

נׇכְרִי Hebrew · H5237 45 tagged occurrences in 45 verses

Pronunciation guide: nok-ree' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5237

נׇכְרִי · nokh.ri · foreign

1) foreign, alien 1a) foreign 1b) foreigner (subst) 1c) foreign woman, harlot 1d) unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)

STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0

Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H5235 (נֶכֶר) (second form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)

KJV glosses: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

Open Scriptures transcription · CC BY-SA

How translators render H5237

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
foreign 8
a foreigner 4
the foreigner 4
from the stranger 2
in a foreign 2
of foreigners 2
a foreign 1
a stranger 1
and a foreigner 1
and an adulteress 1
and foreigners 1
and from your foreign 1
and the foreigner 1
as outsiders 1
both a foreigner 1
his disturbing 1
his foreign 1
in foreign 1
it to a foreigner 1
of a foreigner 1
of a stranger 1
of the adulteress 1
something from a foreigner 1
to foreigners 1
wild 1
you may charge a foreigner 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
strange 8
a stranger 4
of a stranger 3
according to all that the stranger 2
from the stranger 2
in a strange 2
of him for a strange woman 2
and a strange woman 1
and an alien 1
and foreigners 1
and from the strange 1
did outlandish 1
he for all his strange 1
her unto a strange 1
his strange 1
i am an alien 1
it unto an alien 1
moreover concerning a stranger 1
moreover concerning the stranger 1
of a foreigner 1
of a strange 1
of a strange woman 1
of him strangers 1
of strangers 1
thereof but a stranger 1
to aliens 1
unto a stranger 1
with strange 1
you and the stranger 1

Verses containing H5237

Page 1 of 1. 45 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Genesis 31:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  2. Exodus 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  3. Exodus 18:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

    Read word by word
  4. Exodus 21:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  5. Deuteronomy 14:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  6. Deuteronomy 15:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

    Read word by word
  7. Deuteronomy 17:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  8. Deuteronomy 23:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word

    Source alternate reference: 23.21

  9. Deuteronomy 29:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word

    Source alternate reference: 29.21

  10. Judges 19:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

    Read word by word
  11. Ruth 2:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?”

    Read word by word
  12. 2 Samuel 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  13. 1 Kings 8:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  14. 1 Kings 8:43 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  15. 1 Kings 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  16. 1 Kings 11:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

    Read word by word
  17. 2 Chronicles 6:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

    Read word by word
  18. 2 Chronicles 6:33 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  19. Ezra 10:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  20. Ezra 10:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  21. Ezra 10:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

    Read word by word
  22. Ezra 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.”

    Read word by word
  23. Ezra 10:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women.

    Read word by word
  24. Ezra 10:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  25. Ezra 10:44 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    All these men had married foreign women, and some of them had children by these wives.

    Read word by word
  26. Nehemiah 13:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  27. Nehemiah 13:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Must we now hear that you too are doing all this terrible evil and acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?”

    Read word by word
  28. Job 19:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  29. Psalms 69:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word

    Source alternate reference: 69.9

  30. Proverbs 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  31. Proverbs 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

    Read word by word
  32. Proverbs 5:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

    Read word by word
  33. Proverbs 6:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

    Read word by word
  34. Proverbs 7:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

    Read word by word
  35. Proverbs 20:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Read word by word
  36. Proverbs 23:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

    Read word by word
  37. Proverbs 27:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let another praise you, and not your own mouth—a stranger, and not your own lips.

    Read word by word
  38. Proverbs 27:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Take the garment of him who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

    Read word by word
  39. Ecclesiastes 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  40. Isaiah 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  41. Isaiah 28:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  42. Jeremiah 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?

    Read word by word
  43. Lamentations 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

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

    Read word by word
  44. Obadiah 1:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

    Read word by word
  45. Zephaniah 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “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.

    Read word by word

Sources and text

Data created by www.STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). STEPBible data · License.

We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

Open in Berean Blue