Lexical Definition

‎נׇכְרִי‎ nokrîy (nok-ree') foreign ^H:A
from ‎נֶכֶר‎ (second form)

alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).

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

1) foreign, alien
1a) foreign
1b) foreigner (subst)
1c) foreign woman, harlot
1d) unknown, unfamiliar (fig.)

See Greek: ἴδιος · ξένος

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎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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