נֵכָר
nêkâr · nay-kawr'
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
Lexicon
Derivation: ' from H5234 (נָכַר);
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: alien, strange ([phrase] -er).
Letters
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
The seed, life continuing of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נֵכָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- of the stranger4 · 12%
- the strange4 · 12%
- strange2 · 6%
- strangers2 · 6%
- of strange2 · 6%
- of any stranger1 · 3%
- all the strange1 · 3%
- there shall no stranger1 · 3%
- neither from a stranger's1 · 3%
- of the strangers1 · 3%
- him, and there was no strange1 · 3%
- said he, the strange1 · 3%
- of the strange1 · 3%
- themselves from all strangers1 · 3%
- i them from all strangers1 · 3%
- me: the strangers1 · 3%
- the strangers1 · 3%
- any strange1 · 3%
- in a strange1 · 3%
- of strangers1 · 3%
- of the alien1 · 3%
- and with strange1 · 3%
- into my sanctuary strangers1 · 3%
- no stranger1 · 3%
- with a strange1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.