Foreign
נֵכָרStrong’s H5236nekhar (ne-khar)
Appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nekhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “foreignness” and “foreignness of”. It appears in 35 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.”
Meaning
- Foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreignforeignness, foreign gods · alien, foreigner · foreign (vanities)
How it's translated
- foreignness 35
- foreignness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 6
- Isaiah 5
- Genesis 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Joshua 2
- 2 Samuel 2
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 17:12And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
- Genesis 17:27And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
- Genesis 35:2Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
- Genesis 35:4And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
- Exodus 12:43And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- Leviticus 22:25Neither from a stranger’s hand shall ye offer the bread of your God of any of these; because their corruption is in them, and blemishes be in them: they shall not be accepted for you.
All 35 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נֵכָר nekhar · foreign
1) foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreign 1a) foreignness, foreign gods 1b) alien, foreigner 1c) foreign (vanities)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “foreign” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FOREIGN, adjective
for'an. [Latin foris, foras.]
- Belonging to another nation or country; alien; not of the country in which one resides; extraneous.
- Produced in a distant country or jurisdiction; coming from another country; as foreign goods; goods of foreign manufacture; a foreign minister.
- Remote; not belonging; not connected; with to or from.
- Impertinent; not pertaining; not to the purpose.
All definitions
- Excluded; not admitted; held at a distance.
- Extraneous; adventitious; not native or natural.
- In law, a foreign attachment is an attachment of the goods of a foreigner within a city or liberty, for the satisfaction of a debt due from the foreigner to a citizen; or an attachment of the money or goods of a debtor, in the hands of another person.
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.