International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
OUTLANDISHout-land'-ish (Nehemiah 13:26, the King James Version "Him did outlandish women cause to sin") "Outlandish" in modern English is colloquial only and with the sense "utterly extraordinary," but the King James Version uses it in the literal meaning "out of the land," "foreign," the English Revised Version "strange women," the American Standard Revised Version "foreign women," Hebrew nokhri, "foreign."
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) Unconventional; bizarre; unfamiliar; foreign; as, an outlandish costume.
2. (a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech.
Strong's Hebrew
5237. nokri -- foreign, alien... stranger (1). alien, foreigner,
outlandish, stranger, woman. From neker (second
form); strange, in a variety of degrees and applications
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... manner. Or toshab (1 Kings 17:1) {to-shawb'}; from yashab; a dweller (but not
outlandish (nokriy)); especially (as distinguished from a native citizen (active ...
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