Lexical Summary nekar: that which is foreign, foreignness Original Word: נֵכָרTransliteration: nekar Phonetic Spelling: (nay-kawr') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: that which is foreign, foreignness Meaning: that which is foreign, foreignness Strong's Concordance alien, strange From nakar; foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom -- alien, strange (+ -er). see HEBREW nakar Brown-Driver-Briggs H5236. nekar נֵכָר noun [masculine] that which is foreign, foreignness **(properly unknown, compare Arabic √) (on formation compare LagBN 51, 154); — absolute ׳נ Judges 10:16 +, construct נֵכַרֿ Deuteronomy 31:16; — foreignness (of another family, tribe, or nation), especially 1 (הַ)נֵּכָר אֱלֹהֵי = foreign gods Genesis 35:2, 4; Joshua 24:20, 23 (all E, = ׳א אֲחֵרִים of D, compare אַחֵר), Judges 10:16; 1 Samuel 7:3; Jeremiah 5:19; 2 Chronicles 33:5; ׳א נֵכַרהָֿאָרֶץ Deuteronomy 31:16 = foreign gods of the land; singular נֵכָר אֵל 32:12; Malachi 2:11; Psalm 81:10; נ ׳אֱלוֺהַּ Daniel 11:39. 2 בֶּןֿ(הַ)נֵּכָר = foreigner Genesis 17:12 ("" מִזַּרְעֲךָ לֹא), 17:27; Exodus 12:43 (all P), Leviticus 22:25 (H), Ezekiel 44:9 (twice in verse); Nehemiah 9:2; Isaiah 56:3; (ה)נ ׳בְּנֵי 2 Samuel 22:45-46, = Psalm 18:45; 18:46; Ezekiel 44:7; Isaiah 56:6; 60:10; 61:5; 62:8; Psalm 144:7; 144:11. 3 other combinations: נ ׳הַבְלֵי Jeremiah 8:19 foreign vanities (idolatries); הַנּ ׳מִזְבְּחוֺת2 Chronicles 14:2 foreign altars; נ ׳אַדְמַת Psalm 137:4 foreign soil; ׳מִכָּלנֿ Nehemiah 13:30 from everything foreign. |
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