Foreigners
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Strong's Hebrew
1121. ben -- son
... of the son (1), deserves (2), exiles* (5), father* (1), fellow* (3), fellows (2),
fertile* (1), foal (1), fools* (1), foreigner* (6), foreigners (1), foreigners ...
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5237. nokri -- foreign, alien
... alien NASB Word Usage adulteress (2), adulterous woman (2), alien (2), aliens (1),
extraordinary (1), foreign (16), foreigner (15), foreigners (5), stranger (1 ...
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5236. nekar -- that which is foreign, foreignness
... from the same as neker Definition that which is foreign, foreignness NASB Word Usage
aliens* (2), foreign (16), foreigner* (6), foreigners* (10), strange (1). ...
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3103. Yobab -- a son of Joktan, also his desc., also two non-Isr. ...
... Jobab. From yabab; howler; Jobab, the name of two Israelites and of three foreigners --
Jobab. see HEBREW yabab. 3102, 3103. Yobab. 3104 . Strong's Numbers
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2114a. zur -- to be a stranger
... NASB Word Usage adulteress (3), adulteress* (1), alien (2), aliens (2), another
(2), enemies (1), estranged (4), foreign (2), foreigners (2), illegitimate (1 ...
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6154a. ereb -- mixture, mixed company
... Word Origin from an unused word Definition mixture, mixed company NASB Word Usage
foreign people (2), foreigners (2), mixed (1). 6154, 6154a. ereb. 6154b . ...
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1616. ger -- a sojourner
... Word Origin from gur Definition a sojourner NASB Word Usage alien (40), aliens
(11), foreigners (1), immigrants (1), sojourner (5), sojourners (2), stranger (25 ...
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Library

Whether the Judicial Precepts Regarding Foreigners were Framed in ...
... OF THE REASON FOR THE JUDICIAL PRECEPTS (FOUR ARTICLES) Whether the judicial
precepts regarding foreigners were framed in a suitable manner? ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the judicial precepts regarding.htm

The Continuation of the Story
... Work in the provincial capital had been of so totally different an order, and life
in a large community of foreigners had limited their sphere to the oversight ...
/.../the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter iv the continuation of.htm

The Anti-Missionary Agitation.
... At Canton, vile stories about foreigners distributing poisonous pills were gotten
up, and such was the seriousness of the crisis that two German missionaries ...
/.../fagg/forty years in south china/x the anti-missionary agitation.htm

A Loyal Vow
... His special retainers, apparently a bodyguard mostly of foreigners, rally
round him. Mostly foreigners, I say, for these hard words ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/maclaren/expositions of holy scripture f/a loyal vow.htm

The Calamities and Slaughters that came Upon the Jews.
... to slay those whom they only suspected on the other, so did they greatly fear them
when they were mingled with the other, as if they were certainly foreigners. ...
/.../chapter 18 the calamities and.htm

Providential Guidance
... China. Opened to the residence of foreigners in 1842 by the treaty of
Nan-king, it had long been the scene of missionary labours. ...
/.../taylor/a retrospect/chapter xiv providential guidance.htm

How Judas Subdued the Nations Round About; and How Simon Beat the ...
... many of them were in distress, and driven into garrisons, and into the cities of
Galilee; and exhorted him to make haste to go against the foreigners, and to ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/chapter 8 how judas subdued.htm

The Manners of the Christians.
... They dwell in their own countries, but simply as sojourners. As citizens, they share
in all things with others, and yet endure all things as if foreigners. ...
/.../mathetes/the epistle of mathetes to diognetus/chapter v the manners of the.htm

Knox's Intrigues, and his Account of Them, 1559
... The Scots and the Protestant French represented that they were illegally repressed
by foreigners: in Scotland by Mary of Guise with her French troops; in ...
/.../lang/john knox and the reformation/chapter xi knoxs intrigues and.htm

Conclusion
... IT is now thirty years since foreigners came to reside in Hwochow, during which
time three generations of women missionaries have succeeded each other. ...
/.../cable/the fulfilment of a dream of pastor hsis/chapter xxv conclusion.htm

Thesaurus
Foreigners (76 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Foreigners (76 Occurrences). ... Romans 1:14 I am debtor both
to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish. (WEB YLT). ...
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Aliens (53 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, (See NAS NIV). ...
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Strangers (95 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 2:19 So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow
citizens with the saints, and of the household of God, (WEB KJV ASV DBY ...
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Sojourner (81 Occurrences)
...Foreigners were of course excluded from the Passover (Exodus 12:43), but could offer
sacrifices to Israel's God at the religious capital (Leviticus 22:25). ...
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Fade (16 Occurrences)
... (WEB KJV ASV WBS NIV). 2 Samuel 22:46 The foreigners will fade away, and will come
trembling out of their close places. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT). ...
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Fortresses (45 Occurrences)
... En-gedi. (YLT). 2 Samuel 22:46 The foreigners will fade away, and will come
trembling out of their close places. (See NAS). 2 Kings ...
/f/fortresses.htm - 19k

Fastnesses (2 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Fastnesses (2 Occurrences). 2 Samuel 22:46 The foreigners
will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places. (See RSV) ...
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Tenants (18 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 25:23 "'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine;
for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me. (See NIV). ...
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Exiles (46 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 1:1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living
as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and ...
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Dwindle (10 Occurrences)
... (See JPS). 2 Samuel 22:45 The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me:
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me. (See JPS). ...
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Foreigners (76 Occurrences)

Matthew 27:7
and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers;
(See NIV)

Acts 17:21
Now all the Athenians and the strangers living there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing.
(See NAS RSV)

Acts 28:2
and the foreigners were shewing us no ordinary kindness, for having kindled a fire, they received us all, because of the pressing rain, and because of the cold;
(YLT)

Acts 28:4
And when the foreigners saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said unto one another, 'Certainly this man is a murderer, whom, having been saved out of the sea, the justice did not suffer to live;'
(YLT)

Romans 1:14
I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
(WEB YLT)

1 Corinthians 14:21
In the law it is written, "By men of strange languages and by the lips of strangers I will speak to this people. Not even thus will they hear me, says the Lord."
(See RSV NIV)

Ephesians 2:12
that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
(See NIV)

Ephesians 2:19
So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
(WEB KJV WEY DBY WBS YLT NIV)

Hebrews 11:13
All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;
(WEY)

1 Peter 1:1
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
(WEB WEY)

1 Peter 1:17
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear:
(WEB)

1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
(WEB WEY)

Genesis 15:13
He said to Abram, "Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.
(WEB)

Genesis 31:15
Aren't we accounted by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also quite devoured our money.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Genesis 35:27
Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.
(WEB)

Genesis 47:4
They said to Pharaoh, "We have come to live as foreigners in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants' flocks. For the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen."
(WEB)

Exodus 21:8
If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.
(See NIV)

Leviticus 17:8
"You shall say to them,'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,
(WEB)

Leviticus 17:10
"'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
(WEB)

Leviticus 17:13
"'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.
(WEB)

Leviticus 19:34
The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.
(WEB)

Leviticus 20:2
"Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel,'Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
(WEB)

Leviticus 22:18
"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them,'Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;
(WEB)

Leviticus 25:23
"'The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
(WEB)

Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
(WEB)

Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:
(WEB)

Deuteronomy 29:22
And the generation to come, your children that shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses wherewith the LORD hath made it sick;
(See NIV)

Joshua 8:35
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
(WEB)

Judges 19:12
And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel; but we will pass on to Gib'e-ah."
(DBY NAS RSV)

2 Samuel 4:3
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have lived as foreigners there until this day).
(WEB)

2 Samuel 22:45
The foreigners will submit themselves to me. As soon as they hear of me, they will obey me.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

2 Samuel 22:46
The foreigners will fade away, and will come trembling out of their close places.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

1 Kings 17:1
Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."
(WEB)

1 Chronicles 16:19
when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.
(WEB)

1 Chronicles 22:2
David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.
(WEB NAS)

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
(WEB)

2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
(WEB)

2 Chronicles 30:25
All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
(WEB)

Nehemiah 9:2
The seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
(WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV NIV)

Nehemiah 13:3
It came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
(See NAS)

Nehemiah 13:30
Thus cleansed I them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
(WEB ASV DBY)

Psalms 18:44
As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me. The foreigners shall submit themselves to me.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Psalms 18:45
The foreigners shall fade away, and shall come trembling out of their close places.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV)

Psalms 105:12
when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
(WEB)

Psalms 144:7
Stretch out your hand from above, rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, out of the hands of foreigners;
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 144:11
Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hands of foreigners, whose mouths speak deceit, whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 146:9
Yahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
(WEB)

Proverbs 20:16
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; And hold him in pledge 'that is surety' for foreigners.
(ASV NAS RSV)

Proverbs 27:13
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and hold him in pledge that is surety for an alien woman.
(See RSV)

Isaiah 1:7
Your land 'is' a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!
(See NIV)

Isaiah 2:6
For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, with those who practice divination like the Philistines, and they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
(WEB ASV DBY NAS RSV)

Isaiah 25:2
For Thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin; a castle of strangers to be no city, it shall never be built.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 25:5
As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 56:6
Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh, to minister to him, and to love the name of Yahweh, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant;
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 60:10
"Foreigners shall build up your walls, and their kings shall minister to you: for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor have I had mercy on you.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 61:5
Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 62:8
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Jeremiah 5:19
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say: 'Wherefore hath the LORD our God done all these things unto us?' then shalt Thou say unto them: 'Like as ye have forsaken Me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.'
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 30:8
For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 50:37
A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 51:2
And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about -- in the day of evil.
(See NAS NIV)

Jeremiah 51:51
We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.
(See NIV)

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance hath been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
(YLT NIV)

Ezekiel 7:21
And I have given it into the hand of the strangers for a prey, And to the wicked of the land for a spoil, And they have polluted it.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 11:9
And I will bring you forth out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 28:7
Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 28:10
The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 30:12
I will make the rivers dry, and will sell the land into the hand of evil men; and I will make the land desolate, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
(See RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 31:12
Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
(See RSV)

Ezekiel 44:7
in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, to add to all your abominations.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 44:8
and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set 'them' for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.
(See NAS RSV)

Ezekiel 44:9
Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.
(WEB ASV NAS RSV NIV)

Hosea 8:7
For wind they sow, and a hurricane they reap, Stalk it hath none -- a shoot not yielding grain, If so be it yield -- strangers do swallow it up.
(See NIV)

Joel 3:17
"So you will know that I am Yahweh, your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then Jerusalem will be holy, and no strangers will pass through her any more.
(See NIV)

Obadiah 1:11
In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Zechariah 9:6
Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
(WEB NIV)

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Foreigners

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