nechar · foreign

What it means

nechar (נֵכָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “foreign”.

What is foreign; "son of a foreigner" is someone of another people.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Of another people: "gods of other peoples".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• foreign ×17
• foreigner ×10
• foreigners ×9

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×6
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 17:12

  At the age of eight days every male among you shall be circumcised throughout your generations, the one born in the house and the one bought with silver from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.

• Genesis 17:27

  and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with silver from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

• Genesis 35:2

  So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.

• Genesis 35:4

  So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.

• Exodus 12:43

  YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it.

• Leviticus 22:25

  And from the hand of a foreigner you shall not present the food of your Elohim from any of these, for their damage is in them; there is a defect in them; they will not be accepted for you.”

• Deuteronomy 31:16

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Look, you are about to lie down with your fathers, and this people will rise and prostitute themselves after the foreign gods of the land where they are going, in its midst, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.

• Deuteronomy 32:12

  YHWH alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

• Joshua 24:20

  If you abandon YHWH and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do harm to you, and consume you, after having done good to you.”

• Joshua 24:23

  “And now put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.”

• Judges 10:16

  They removed the foreign gods from among them and served YHWH; and his soul grew impatient with the toil of Israel.

• 1 Samuel 7:3

  And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If with all your heart you are returning to YHWH, put away the foreign gods from among you, and the Astartes, and prepare your heart for YHWH and serve him alone, and he will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

• 2 Samuel 22:45

  Foreigners feign submission to me; as soon as they hear with the ear, they listen to me.

• 2 Samuel 22:46

  Foreigners wither, and they come out girded from their strongholds.

• 2 Chronicles 14:3

  He removed the foreign altars and the high places, broke the standing stones, and cut down the Asherahs.

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of YHWH, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of YHWH and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.

• Nehemiah 9:2

  And the offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

• Nehemiah 13:30

  So I purified them from everything foreign, and I established the watches for the priests and for the Levites, each in his work;

• Psalms 18:44

  As soon as the ear hears, they listen to me; foreigners feign submission to me.

• Psalms 18:45

  Foreigners wither, and come out trembling from their strongholds.

• Psalms 81:9

  There shall not be among you a strange god, nor shall you bow down to a foreign god.

• Psalms 137:4

  How shall we sing the song of YHWH on foreign soil?

• Psalms 144:7

  Send your hands from on high; set me free and deliver me from many waters, from the hand of the sons of the foreigner,

• Psalms 144:11

  Set me free and deliver me from the hand of the sons of the foreigner, whose mouth speaks falsehood, and their right hand is a right hand of lies;

• Isaiah 56:3

  And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH say, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

• Isaiah 56:6

  And the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to YHWH, to serve him, and to love the name of YHWH, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it, and who hold fast to my covenant:

• Isaiah 60:10

  And foreigners will build your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had compassion on you.

• Isaiah 61:5

  And strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks, and foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

• Isaiah 62:8

  YHWH has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength: “I will certainly not give your grain again as food to your enemies, and foreigners will certainly not drink your new wine for which you wore yourself out;

• Jeremiah 5:19

  And it will happen, when you say, ‘Why has YHWH our Elohim done all these things to us?’ you will say to them, ‘As you have forsaken me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

• Jeremiah 8:19

  Listen! The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vapors?”

• Ezekiel 44:7

  when you brought foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, my house, when you presented my bread, fat and blood; and they broke my covenant by all your abominations.

• Ezekiel 44:9

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter my sanctuary, of any foreigner who is among the sons of Israel.

• Daniel 11:39

  And he will act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign god; those who acknowledge him he will greatly increase in honor, and he will make them rule over many, and the land he will divide for a price.

• Malachi 2:11

  Judah has betrayed, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned what is holy to YHWH, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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