2 occurrences

'Foreigner' in the Bible

During the time of the judges there was a famine in the land of Judah. So a man from Bethlehem in Judah went to live as a resident foreigner in the region of Moab, along with his wife and two sons.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfJudgesRefugeesSojourningJudging IsraelTimes Of People

Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, "Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?"

Verse ConceptsBowingGrace, In Human RelationshipsProstrationGratitudeLoving Foreigners

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Foreign (157 instances)
Foreigner (140 instances)
Outsider (15 instances)
Strange (251 instances)

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