נׇכְרִי

nokrîy · Hebrew · Strong's H5237 · 45 occurrences

The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “woman”

What it means

strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)

from H5235 (נֶכֶר) (second form);

How the KJV renders it

alien, foreigner, outlandish, stranger, woman

Where that flattens a distinction

The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.

“woman”

also renders eleútheros (G1658), hékastos (G1538), thēlys (G2338), gynḗ (G1135), bâṭach (H982), zûwr (H2114)

“stranger”

also renders epidēméō (G1927), allogenḗs (G241), parepídēmos (G3927), pároikos (G3941), gêr (H1616)

“alien”

also renders allótrios (G245), gêr (H1616), nêkâr (H5236)

“foreigner”

also renders pároikos (G3941)

Where it appears

45 occurrences in the Hebrew text.

1 Kings 8:41 · HTd/Aamsa

“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes out of a far country for your name’s sake

1 Kings 8:43 · HTd/Aamsa

hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

1 Kings 11:1 · HAafpa

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites,

1 Kings 11:8 · HTd/Aafpa

So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

2 Chronicles 6:32 · HTd/Aamsa

“Moreover, concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for your great name’s sake and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,

2 Chronicles 6:33 · HTd/Aamsa

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

2 Samuel 15:19 HAamsaDeuteronomy 14:21 HR/AamsaDeuteronomy 15:3 HTd/AamsaDeuteronomy 17:15 HAamsaDeuteronomy 23:20 HRd/AamsaDeuteronomy 29:22 HC/Td/AamsaEcclesiastes 6:2 HAamsaExodus 2:22 HAafsaExodus 18:3 HAafsaExodus 21:8 HAamsaEzra 10:2 HAafpaEzra 10:10 HAafpaEzra 10:11 HTd/AafpaEzra 10:14 HAafpaEzra 10:17 HAafpaEzra 10:18 HAafpaEzra 10:44 HAafpaGenesis 31:15 HAafpaIsaiah 2:6 HAampaIsaiah 28:21 HAafsaJudges 19:12 HAamsaJeremiah 2:21 HAafsaJob 19:15 HAamsaLamentations 5:2 HR/AampaNehemiah 13:26 HTd/AafpaNehemiah 13:27 HAafpaObadiah 1:11 HC/AampaProverbs 2:16 HR/AafsaProverbs 5:10 HAamsaProverbs 5:20 HAafsaProverbs 6:24 HAafsaProverbs 7:5 HR/AafsaProverbs 20:16 HAampaProverbs 23:27 HAafsaProverbs 27:2 HAamsaProverbs 27:13 HAafsaPsalm 69:8 HC/AamsaRuth 2:10 HAafsaZephaniah 1:8 HAamsa

Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.