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# נֵכָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5236

**that which is foreign** — used 36 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

that which is foreign [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5236/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֵכָר: that which is foreign, foreignness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5236/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] that which is foreign, foreignness (on format. cf. LagBN 51, 154);—abs. נ׳ Ju 10:16 +, cstr. נֵכַר־ Dt 31:16;—foreignness (of another family, tribe, or nation), especially אֱלֹהֵי (הַ)נֵּכָר = foreign gods Gn 35:2, 4; Jos 24:20, 23 (all E, = א׳ אֲחֵרִים of D, cf. אַחֵר), Ju 10:16; 1 S 7:3; Je 5:19; 2 Ch 33:15; א׳ נֵכַר־הָאָרֶץ Dt 31:16 = foreign gods of the land; sg. אֵל נֵכָר Dt 32:12; Mal 2:11 ψ 81:10; אֱלוֹהַּ נ׳ Dn 11:39. בֶּן־(הַ)נֵּכָר = foreigner Gn 17:12 (‖ לֹא מִזַּרְעֲךָ), v 27 Ex 12:43 (all P), Lv 22:25 (H), Ez 44:9(×2) Ne 9:2; Is 56:3; בְּנֵי (ה)נ׳ 2 S 22:45, 46 = ψ 18:45, 46, Ez 44:7; Is 56:6; 60:10; 61:5; 62:8 ψ 144:7, 11. other combin.: הַבְלֵי נ׳ Je 8:19 foreign vanities (idolatries); מִזְבְּחוֹת הַנּ׳ 2 Ch 14:2 foreign altars; אַדְמַת נ׳ ψ 137:4 foreign soil; מִכָּל־נ׳ Ne 13:30 from everything foreign.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 35 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of foreignness (25); foreignness (10); of (the) foreignness (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.46/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י נֵכָ֖ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְיַחְגְּר֖וּ מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* sons of.foreignness they.withered and they.girded.themselves from strongholds their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of the stranger fade away, and come halting out of their close places.

[Psalms 18:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.46/#tree)

בְּנֵי־נֵכָ֥ר יִבֹּ֑לוּ וְ֝יַחְרְג֗וּ מִֽמִּסְגְּרֽוֹתֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* sons of.foreignness they.withered and they.came.trembling from strongholds their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of the stranger fade away, and come trembling out of their close places.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5236.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5236/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).