BDB5211 [H5237]

נָכְרִי adjective foreign, alien (Late Hebrew נָכְרִי = Gentile); — ׳נ absolute masculine Zeph 1:8 +; feminine נָכְרִיָּה Exod 2:22 +; masculine plural נָכְרִים Isa 2:6 + 2 t. + Prov 20:16 Kt (> Qr נָכְרִיָּה), + Prov 27:13 (so read for ᵑ0 נָכְרִיָּה); feminine plural נָכְרִיּוֺת Gen 31:15 +; —

1. a. foreign: עַם נָכְרִי Exod 21:8 (E) a foreign (non-Israel) people, ׳אִישׁ נ Deut 17:15 (|| לֹא אָתִיךָ); ׳מַלְבּוּשׁ נ Zeph 1:8 אֶרֶץ נָכְרִיָּה Exod 2:22 (J) foreign land, so Exod 18:3 (E); especially נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֺת foreign (non-Israel) women 1Kgs 11:18; Ezra 10:2; Ezra 10:10; Ezra 10:11; Ezra 10:14; Ezra 10:17; Ezra 10:18; Ezra 10:44; Neh 13:26; Neh 13:27.
\ \ b. as substantive נָכְרִי foreigner (non-Israel) Judg 19:12 (+ אֲשֶׁר לֹא מִבְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל), 1Kgs 8:41 (+ אֲשֶׁר לֹא מֵעַמְּךָ), = 2Chr 6:32 (+ id.), 1Kgs 8:43 = 2Chr 6:33; Deut 14:21 (|| גֵּר), Deut 15:3; Deut 23:21 (opposed to אָחִיךָ), Deut 29:21 (+ אֲשֶׁר יָבאֹ מֵאֶרֶץ רְחוֺקָה); as predicate, 2Sam 15:19 (|| גֹּלֶה), נָכְרִיָּה Ruth 2:10 plural נָכְרִים foreigners Lam 5:2 (זָרִים), Obad 1:11 (|| id.); compare יַלְדֵי נָכְרִים Isa 2:6 feminine plural alien women Gen 31:15 (E; i.e. not of one's father's family).

2. נָכְרִיָּה foreign woman, as technical term, in Proverbs, for harlot (perhaps because harlots were originally chiefly foreigners): Prov 2:16 (|| אִשָּׁה זָרָה), Prov 7:5 (|| id.), Prov 5:20 (|| זָרָה), Prov 6:24 (|| אֵשֶׁת רָ֑ע), Prov 23:27 (|| זוֺנָה). — On Prov 20:16; Prov 27:13 see below

3. figurative unknown, unfamiliar: נָכְרִי הָיִיתִי בְּעֵינֵיהֶם Job 19:15 an alien am I become in their eyes; לִבְנֵי אִמִּי ׳נ Ps 69:9 (|| מוּזָר הָיִיתִי לְאֶחָ֑י); ׳אִישׁ נ Eccl 6:2 of ׳י's judgment, נָכְרִיָּה עֲבֹדָתוֺ Isa 28:21 strange is his task! (|| זָר מַעֲשֵׂהוּ); גֶּפֶן נָכְרִיָּה Jer 2:21 an alien vine (opposed to זֶרַע אֱמֶת), figurative of degenerate Israel; as substantive, נָכְרִים Prov 20:16 Kt (> Qr נָכְרִיָּה), alens, persons unknown to him (|| זָר), so read also (for ᵑ0 נָכְרִיָּה) || Prov 27:13.

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