STRONGS NUMBER H5236


Word Summary
nekar: that which is foreign, foreignness
Original Word: נֵכָר
Transliteration: 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

נֵכָרnoun [masculine] that which is foreign, foreignness **(properly unknown, compare Arabic √) (on formation compare LagBN 51, 154); — absolute ׳נJudges 10:16 +, construct נֵכַרֿDeuteronomy 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 נֵכַרהָֿאָרֶץDeuteronomy 31:16 = foreign gods of the land; singular נֵכָר אֵל32:12; Malachi 2:11; Psalm 81:10; נ ׳אֱלוֺהַּDaniel 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 ׳בְּנֵי2 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 ׳הַבְלֵיJeremiah 8:19 foreign vanities (idolatries); הַנּ ׳מִזְבְּחוֺת2 Chronicles 14:2 foreign altars; נ ׳אַדְמַתPsalm 137:4 foreign soil; ׳מִכָּלנֿNehemiah 13:30 from everything foreign.