140 occurrences in 12 translations

'Foreigner' in the Bible

Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.'"

Verse ConceptsCollectionsGiving To The PoorFree Will

the land was given to them alonewhen no foreigner passed among them.

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;I am a foreigner in their sight.

Verse ConceptsGuestsReckoned As Foreigners

“Hear my prayer, Lord,and listen to my cry for help;do not be silent at my tears.For I am a foreigner residing with You,a temporary resident like all my fathers.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

Then Israel went to Egypt;Jacob lived as a foreigner in the land of Ham.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

Verse ConceptsPilgrimsReckoned As ForeignersGod's Things Concealed

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

lest strangers take [their] fill of your strength, and your labors [go] to the house of a foreigner,

Verse ConceptsForeignersLimitations Of StrengthRelations With ForeignersHard WorkFinancesAliensWomen's Strength

For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteressAnd embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

That they may keep you from an adulteress,From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

Take his garment, for he has given security [to] a stranger, and on behalf of a foreigner--take it as pledge.

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Crooked is the way of a man and a foreigner, but the pure [is] upright [in] his conduct.

Verse ConceptsInnocence, Teaching OnCharacter Of WickedDeviousnessTwisted WaysPure People

a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that his soul lacks nothing of all that he desires; yet God has not empowered him to eat from them, for a foreigner enjoys them. This is vanity and a severe affliction.

Verse ConceptsUseless EndeavourSuffering From ForeignersGod Gives WealthTragedyBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeWealth And ProsperityEnjoying LifeMoney Blessingscatspossessionsempowerment

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and you have not remembered the rock of your refuge; therefore you plant plants of pleasantness, and you {plant} a vine of a foreigner.

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lordshould say,“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;and the eunuch should not say,“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”

And strangers have stood and fed your flock, Sons of a foreigner are your husbandmen, And your vine-dressers.

Verse ConceptsForeignersVineyardForeigners Included Among The PeopleStock KeepingStrangers in israelAliens

And it hath come to pass, when ye say, 'For what hath Jehovah our God done to us all these?' That thou hast said unto them, 'As ye have forsaken Me, And serve the gods of a foreigner in your land, So do ye serve strangers in a land not yours.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForsaking GodRenunciationUnfaithfulness, To GodIdolatry Consists OfSuffering From ForeignersNo Earthly InheritanceServing GroupsWhy Does God Do This?

if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods

Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?

Verse ConceptsProvoking GodGod Opposes IdolatryPeople From Far Away

You have been the object of Israel's hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHope, As ConfidenceHope, Results OfTravellersCitizenshipReckoned As Foreigners

For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the Lord am determined to answer him personally.

Verse ConceptsForeignersenquiring of GodOffenceSeparation From GodGod Will AnswerIn FrontHindering God's WorkImmigrants

“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter My sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessForeigners In The Holy PlacesStrangers in israel

In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included Among The People

And dwelt hath a foreigner in Ashdod, And I have cut off the excellency of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsIllegitimate ChildrenMixing PeopleGod Opposes The ProudRace

Didn’t any return to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

Verse ConceptsNot Praising GodAliensGiving ThanksGiving Back

Because of this, Moses fled and lived as a foreigner in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.

Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo Sons

Peter said to them, “You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner. But God has shown me that I must not call any person common or unclean.

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessGentiles, In NtClean, Spiritual UseequalityRacial PrejudiceBigotryRacismDisfellowshipPeople Being UncleanAvoiding ForeignersUnrelated PeopleBreaking Man's LawJews Separate From GentilesLack Of Holiness

Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker, and the speaker will be a foreigner to me.

Verse ConceptsBarbariansMeaningReckoned As Foreigners

Bible Theasaurus

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

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נכרי 
Nokriy 
Usage: 46

תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

πάροικος 
Paroikos 
Usage: 4

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