20 occurrences

'Foreign' in the Bible

And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

and her two sons, of whom the name of the one was Gershom for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land,

If she is unacceptable in the eyes of her master, who had taken her for himself, then shall he let her be ransomed: to sell her unto a foreign people he hath no power, after having dealt unfaithfully with her.

So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel.

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;

And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, Ye have acted unfaithfully, and have taken foreign wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

And now make confession to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign wives.

Let now our princes, while this matter is going on, stand for all the congregation, and let all those that have taken foreign wives in our cities come at the appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce anger of our God be turned from us.

And they ended with all the men that had taken foreign wives by the first day of the first month.

And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken foreign wives, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren: Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

All these had taken foreign wives; and there were among them wives who had had children.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.

And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?

There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

How should we sing a song of Jehovah's upon a foreign soil?

For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:

Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, from a very far country: Is not Jehovah in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, with foreign vanities?

And it shall come to pass in the day of Jehovah's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's sons, and all such as are clothed with foreign apparel.

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נכרי 
Nokriy 
Usage: 46

תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

πάροικος 
Paroikos 
Usage: 4