# נׇכְרִי (nkhri)

Israeli respelling: nkhri. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5237. 45 Old Testament occurrences.

strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)

King James renderings: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nkhri-h5237

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 31:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/15) — Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
- [Exodus 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/22) — And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- [Exodus 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/18/3) — And 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 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/21/8) — If 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 sh…
- [Deuteronomy 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/21) — Ye 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 m…
- [Deuteronomy 15:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/15/3) — Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine with thy brother thine hand shall release;
- [Deuteronomy 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/17/15) — Thou 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 the…
- [Deuteronomy 23:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/20) — Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in a…
- [Deuteronomy 29:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/22) — So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,…
- [Judges 19:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/19/12) — And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside hither into the city of a stranger, that is not of the children of Israel; we will pas…
- [Ruth 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/2/10) — Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest ta…
- [2 Samuel 15:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/15/19) — Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a st…
- [1 Kings 8:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/41) — Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name’s sake;
- [1 Kings 8:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/43) — Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for: that all people of the earth may kno…
- [1 Kings 11:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/1) — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, an…
- [1 Kings 11:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/11/8) — And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.
- [2 Chronicles 6:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/32) — Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy migh…
- [2 Chronicles 6:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/6/33) — Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all peop…
- [Ezra 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/2) — And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken…
- [Ezra 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/10) — And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
- [Ezra 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/11) — Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land,…
- [Ezra 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/14) — Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, an…
- [Ezra 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/17) — And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
- [Ezra 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/18) — And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his…
- [Ezra 10:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/44) — All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
- [Nehemiah 13:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/26) — Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God…
- [Nehemiah 13:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/27) — Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
- [Job 19:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/15) — They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
- [Psalms 69:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/8) — I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
- [Proverbs 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/16) — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- [Proverbs 5:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/10) — Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
- [Proverbs 5:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/5/20) — And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- [Proverbs 6:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/6/24) — To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- [Proverbs 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/5) — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
- [Proverbs 20:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/20/16) — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- [Proverbs 23:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/23/27) — For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
- [Proverbs 27:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/2) — Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
- [Proverbs 27:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/13) — Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- [Ecclesiastes 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/6/2) — A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth hi…
- [Isaiah 2:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/6) — Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philist…
- [Isaiah 28:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/21) — For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; an…
- [Jeremiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/2/21) — Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
- [Lamentations 5:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/5/2) — Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
- [Obadiah 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/11) — In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into…
- [Zephaniah 1:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/1/8) — And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD’s sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king’s children, and all such as are…