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Strong's #4378 - מַכָּר
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2406) rkn (נכר NKR) AC: Know CO: ? AB: ?
V) rkn (נכר NKR) - Know: KJV (50): (vf: Niphal, Hiphil, Hitpael, Piel) know, acknowledge, discern, respect, knowledge, known, feign - Strongs: H5234 (נָכַר)
Nm) rkn (נכר NKR) - I. Foreign:An unknown person, place or thing. II. Disaster:[Unknown connection to root;] KJV (37): strange, stranger, alien - Strongs: H5235 (נֹכֶר), H5236 (נֵכָר)
am) rknm (מנכר MNKR) - Acquaintance: One who is known [df: rkm] KJV (2): acquaintance - Strongs: H4378 (מַכָּר)
fm ) irkn (נכרי NKRY) - Foreigner: One who is not known. KJV (45): stranger, strange, alien, foreigner, outlandish - Strongs: H5237 (נָכְרִי)
hf1) erknm (מנכרה MNKRH) - Minkrah: An unknown plant. KJV (1): pit - Strongs: H4379 (מִכְרֶה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
II. נכר (√ of following, possibly = I. נכר, whence the foreign, strange, as that which is intently regarded, so Thes, but precarious; compare Assyrian nakâru, rebel, Pa`el change, nakiru, and nakaru, enemy, nukurtu, enmity, etc.; **
be ignorant of, Qor 11:73; II. change, alter, so as not to be known, disguise Qor 27:41; IV=I, also deny, Qor 16:85 repudiate. Arabic 
in sense be bad, evil; II. change, alter a thing; Sabean נכר II. reject, injure, etc., נכרם injury SabDenkm76 CIS iv. 81. 9; 29. 5; Minaean נכר alter Hom Südarab. Chrest. 128; Syriac 
reject, 
alienus, etc.; **
reject is rare (twice), and PS properly 
alienavit each time. ᵑ7נוּכְרַי strange, foreign).
מַכָּר m. (from the root נָכַר), an acquaintance, friend, prop. abstr. friendship, familiarity (Bekannt fchaft), 2 Kings 12:6, 2 Kings 12:8.
