נׇכְרִי
nokrîy · nok-ree'
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5235 (נֶכֶר) (second form);
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the seed, life continuing › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › the hand that works
The seed, life continuing of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest of the hand that works.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of נׇכְרִי 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
45 occurrences · 45 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- strange8 · 21%
- of a stranger3 · 8%
- in a strange2 · 5%
- a stranger2 · 5%
- according to all that the stranger2 · 5%
- of him for a strange woman2 · 5%
- of him strangers1 · 3%
- her unto a strange1 · 3%
- it unto an alien1 · 3%
- of a foreigner1 · 3%
- unto a stranger1 · 3%
- you, and the stranger1 · 3%
- of me, seeing i am a stranger1 · 3%
- for thou art a stranger1 · 3%
- moreover concerning a stranger1 · 3%
- he for all his strange1 · 3%
- moreover concerning the stranger1 · 3%
- and from the strange1 · 3%
- did outlandish1 · 3%
- i am an alien1 · 3%
- and an alien1 · 3%
- even from the stranger1 · 3%
- of a strange woman1 · 3%
- from the stranger1 · 3%
- and a strange woman1 · 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.