Be a stranger
זוּרStrong’s H2114zur
Appears in 76 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zur is the Hebrew word usually translated “strangers”, “strange” and “stranger”. It appears in 76 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.”
Meaning
- To be strange, be a stranger(Qal) · (Niphal) to be estranged · (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated
- Loathsome (of breath) (participle)
How it's translated
- strangers 21
- strange 18
- a stranger 10
- and the stranger 4
- they have become estranged 3
- a strange 3
- to strangers 3
- and a stranger 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 14
- Isaiah 9
- Numbers 8
- Ezekiel 8
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 7
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 30:9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
- Exodus 30:33Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
- Leviticus 10:1And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
- Leviticus 22:10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 22:12If the priest’s daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
- Leviticus 22:13But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and is returned unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat: but there shall no stranger eat thereof.
All 76 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זוּר zur · be a stranger
1) to be strange, be a stranger 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to become estranged 1a2) strange, another, stranger, foreigner, an enemy (participle) 1a3) strange woman, prostitute, harlot (meton) 1b) (Niphal) to be estranged 1c) (Hophal) to be a stranger, be one alienated
זוּר zur · be loathsome
loathsome (of breath) (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “stranger” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
STRANGER, noun
- A foreigner; one who belongs to another country.
- One of another town, city, state or province in the same country.
- One unknown.
- One unacquainted.
All definitions and other forms of “stranger”
- A guest; a visitor.
- One not admitted to any communication or fellowship.
- In law, one not privy or party to an act.
STRANGER, verb intransitive
To estrange; to alienate. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.