# H5237 נׇכְרִי

נׇכְרִי (nokrîy), Strong’s H5237: strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful) KJV: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman)…

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

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

Derived from [נֶכֶר neker](https://besorah.bible/word/H5235) (something strange, i.e. unexpected calamity)

Occurs 45 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- נָכְרִי adj. foreign, alien

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 31:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=15) — Aren’t we considered as foreigners by him? For he has sold us, and has also used up our money.
- [Exodus 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=22) — She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- [Exodus 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=3) — and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
- [Exodus 21:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/21?v=8) — If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no…
- [Deuteronomy 14:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/14?v=21) — You shall not eat of anything that dies of itself. You may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your…
- [Deuteronomy 15:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/15?v=3) — Of a foreigner you may require it; but whatever of yours is with your brother, your hand shall release.
- [Deuteronomy 17:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/17?v=15) — you shall surely set him whom the LORD your God chooses as king over yourselves. You shall set as king over you one…
- [Deuteronomy 23:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/23?v=21) — You may charge a foreigner interest; but you shall not charge your brother interest, that the LORD your God may bless…
- [Deuteronomy 29:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/29?v=21) — The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will…
- [Judges 19:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/19?v=12) — His master said to him, “We won’t enter into the city of a foreigner that is not of the children of Israel; but we will…