Foreign
נׇכְרִיStrong’s H5237nokhri (nokh-ri)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nokhri is the Hebrew word usually translated “foreign”, “foreigner” and “foreigners”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.”
Meaning
- Foreign, alienforeign · foreigner (subst) · foreign woman, harlot · unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)
How it's translated
- foreign 18
- the foreigner 5
- a foreigner 5
- a foreign 5
- foreigners 2
- from a foreign 2
- alien 2
- to a foreigner 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Proverbs 9
- Ezra 7
- Deuteronomy 5
- 1 Kings 4
- Exodus 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
19 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 2:22And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- Exodus 18:3And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
- Exodus 21:8If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
- Deuteronomy 14:21Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
- Deuteronomy 15:3Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
- Deuteronomy 17:15Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.
All 45 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
נׇכְרִי nokhri · foreign
1) foreign, alien 1a) foreign 1b) foreigner (subst) 1c) foreign woman, harlot 1d) unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)
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.