the Week of Proper 27 / Ordinary 32
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Strong's #5236 - נֵכָר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- foreign, alien, foreignness, that which is foreign
- foreignness, foreign gods
- alien, foreigner
- foreign (vanities)
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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.
1אֱלֹהֵי (הַ)נֵּכָר = foreign gods Genesis 35:2,4; Joshua 24:20,23 (all E, = אֲחֵרִים׳א of D, compare אַחֵר), Judges 10:16; 1 Samuel 7:3; Jeremiah 5:19; 2 Chronicles 33:5; נֵכַרהָֿאָרֶץ׳א Deuteronomy 31:16 = foreign gods of the land; singular אֵל נֵכָר Deuteronomy 32:12; Malachi 2:11; Psalm 81:10; ׳אֱלוֺהַּ נ Daniel 11:39.
2בֶּןֿ(הַ)נֵּכָר = foreigner Genesis 17:12 ("" לֹא מִזַּרְעֲךָ), Genesis 17:27; Exodus 12:43 (all P), Leviticus 22:25 (H), Ezekiel 44:9 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 9:2; Isaiah 56:3; ׳בְּנֵי (ה)נ 2 Samuel 22:45,46 = Psalm 18:45; Psalm 18:46; Ezekiel 44:7; Isaiah 56:6; Isaiah 60:10; Isaiah 61:5; Isaiah 62:8; Psalm 144:7; Psalm 144:11.
3 other combinations: ׳הַבְלֵי נ Jeremiah 8:19 foreign vanities (idolatries); ׳מִזְבְּחוֺת הַנּ 2 Chronicles 14:2 foreign altars; ׳אַדְמַת נ Psalm 137:4 foreign soil; ׳מִכָּלנֿ Nehemiah 13:30 from everything foreign.
נֵכָר const. נֵכַר Deuteronomy 31:16, something strange
(a) a strange or foreign country. Hence בֶּן־נֵכָר, pl. בְּנֵי נֵכָר a stranger, strangers, Genesis 17:12, 27 Genesis 17:27; Exodus 12:43 sometimes with the additional notion of hostility, Psalms 18:45, 46 Psalms 18:46. אֱלֹהֵי הַנֵּכָר strange gods, Genesis 35:2; Jeremiah 5:19.
(b) a strange or unknown thing, specially used of a strange god, Nehemiah 13:30; 2 Chronicles 14:2.