What does זוּר · נֵכָר mean in the Bible?
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Hebrew · H2114, H5236
זָר / בְּנֵי נֵכָר
To turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner , strange , profane ; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery · foreign , or (concretely) a foreigner , or (abstractly) heathendom
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זוּר H2114 to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner , strange , profane ; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
Pronunciation zar
Fundamental sense of turning aside or away creates spectrum: spatial alienation (foreigner) through moral estrangement (adultery, profaneness).
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נֵכָר H5236 foreign , or (concretely) a foreigner , or (abstractly) heathendom
Pronunciation nēkār
Marks the outsider to covenant community; carries religious otherness beyond mere geography or ethnicity
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What does זָר / בְּנֵי נֵכָר (zār / bᵉnê nēḵār) mean in the Bible?
זוּר · נֵכָר is a Hebrew phrase meaning "strangers, foreigners.".
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How many biblical occurrences are listed for H2114, H5236?
H2114, H5236 is connected to 113 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Evidence Summary
Hebrew phrase. strangers, foreigners.
Source Gloss
strangers, foreigners.
Grammatical Forms
How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 3 Aligned forms 61
Qal basic active stem — the word in its most common, direct sense 4×
Perfect Job 19:13 · Ps 58:4 · Ps 78:30 · Job 19:17 4×
Niphal passive or reflexive — the subject receives or experiences the action 2×
Perfect Ezek 14:5 · Isa 1:4 2×
Hophal causative passive — the subject is caused to perform the action 1×
Participle passive Ps 69:9 1×
Word Origins
זָר / בְּנֵי נֵכָר is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain