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'Strange' in the Bible

And Joseph seeth his brethren, and discerneth them, and maketh himself strange unto them, and speaketh with them sharp things, and saith unto them, 'From whence have ye come?' and they say, 'From the land of Canaan -- to buy food.'

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

and she beareth a son, and he calleth his name Gershom, for he said, 'A sojourner I have been in a strange land.'

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

and her two sons, of whom the name of the one is Gershom, for he said, 'a sojourner I have been in a strange land:'

Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo SonsPeople With Apt Names

if evil in the eyes of her lord, so that he hath not betrothed her, then he hath let her be ransomed; to a strange people he hath not power to sell her, in his dealing treacherously with her.

Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeLaws Restricting ForeignersNot Pleasing PeopleUnfaithful

'Ye do not cause strange perfume to go up upon it, and burnt-offering, and present, and libation ye do not pour out on it;

Verse ConceptsAltar Of Incensedrink offeringAnimal Sacrifices, Meal OfferingIncense Offered AmissMeat offerings

And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them;

Verse ConceptsFireWorship, Acceptable AttitudesAaron, CharacterDisobedience, Examples OfSacrilegeCensersForeign ThingsBurning SacrificesIncense Offered Amiss

And a priest's daughter, when she is a strange man's, -- she, of the heave-offering of the holy things doth not eat;

And Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- before Jehovah, in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah, in the wilderness of Sinai, and sons they had not; and Eleazar -- Ithamar also -- acteth as priest in the presence of Aaron their father.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning SacrificesDying In The Desert

and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheMoses, Significance OfRetributionRebellion Against God, Nature OfSwallowingWhilst AliveDeath Of The Wicked

and Nadab dieth -- Abihu also -- in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning Sacrifices

'When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother;

Verse Conceptsethics, personalBrothersLoyaltyStrangersLack Of SonsBrothers in lawDutyDeath Of A Family MemberRelationships With BoyfriendDeath Of A ChildMarriage Between Man And WomanRaising ChildrenWomen's RolesRelationships And DatingFamily Deathculture

And king Solomon hath loved many strange women, and the daughter of Pharaoh, females of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Zidon, and of the Hittites,

Verse ConceptsKingsSolomon, Character OfTemptation, Universality OfYielding To TemptationRelations With ForeignersMen And Women Who LovedWoman's Placerehabilitation

and so he hath done for all his strange women, who are perfuming and sacrificing to their gods.

Verse ConceptsIncense Offered AmissServing One's Own Gods

And Jehovah said unto Ahijah, 'Lo, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to seek a word from thee concerning her son, for he is sick; thus and thus thou dost speak unto her, and it cometh to pass at her coming in, that she is making herself strange.'

Verse ConceptsPretendingTelling Of Movements

And it cometh to pass, at Ahijah's hearing the sound of her feet as she came in to the opening, that he saith, 'Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why is this -- thou art making thyself strange? and I am sent unto thee with a sharp thing:

Verse ConceptsSoundHearing ThingsPretendingFeet In Action

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

And Shechaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answereth and saith to Ezra, 'We -- we have trespassed against our God, and we settle strange women of the peoples of the land; and now there is hope for Israel concerning this,

Verse ConceptsHope, In GodOptimismParticipation, In SinUnfaithfulness, To God

And Ezra the priest riseth, and saith unto them, 'Ye -- ye have trespassed, and ye settle strange women, to add to the guilt of Israel;

Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toGuilt

and, now, make confession to Jehovah, God of your fathers, and do His good pleasure, and be separated from the peoples of the land, and from the strange women.'

Verse ConceptsMarriages, Believers With UnbelieversParticipation, In SinFellowship With WickedSeparation From Evil PeopleSin ConfessedActual Divorces

Let, we pray thee, our heads of all the assembly stand, and all who are in our cities, who have settled strange wives, do come in at the times appointed, and with them the elders of city and city, and its judges, till the turning back of the fury of the wrath of our God from us, for this thing.'

Verse ConceptsJudgesTownGod Will No More Be Angry

and they finish with all the men who have settled strange women unto the first day of the first month.

And there are found of the sons of the priests that have settled strange women: of the sons of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah;

all these have taken strange women, and there are of them women -- who adopt sons.

Verse ConceptsInterracial MarriageMarriage Between Man And Woman

By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.

Verse ConceptsBacksliding, Israel ExanplesSolomon, Character OfUnique Individuals

And to you do we hearken to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God, to settle strange women?'

Verse ConceptsUnfaithfulness, To God

Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.

Verse ConceptsOrphansGamblingBarteringTaking AdvantageFriends Failing

These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me --

Verse ConceptsTen TimesWronging Other People

My spirit is strange to my wife, And my favours to the sons of my mother's womb.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

There is not in thee a strange god, And thou bowest not thyself to a strange god.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismIdolatry Consists OfDo Not Have Other godsWorshiping GodWorshiping Together

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholImagination, Evil SchemingSpectacle

Take his garment, when a stranger hath been surety, And for a strange woman pledge it.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

Verse ConceptsFortressesGod, The RockRocksMetaphorical Plantingmindfulness

For as at mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As at the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work -- strange is His work, And to do His deed -- strange is His deed.'

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingWhat God Does

And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

Doth snow of Lebanon Cease from the rock of the field? Failed are the cold strange waters that flow?

Verse ConceptsSnowCold, Figurative UseAbandoning Things

And he hath dealt in the fortresses of the strongholds with a strange god whom he hath acknowledged; he multiplieth honour, and hath caused them to rule over many, and the ground he apportioneth at a price.

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be Honoured

Against Jehovah they dealt treacherously, For strange sons they have begotten, Now consume them doth a month with their portions.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodNew Moon FestivalBeginning Of PeriodsUnfaithful

I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

And it hath come to pass, In the day of the sacrifice of Jehovah, That I have laid a charge on the heads, And on sons of the king, And on all putting on strange clothing.

Verse ConceptsForeignersDressForeign ThingsSacrifice

Dealt treacherously hath Judah, And abomination hath been done in Israel, and in Jerusalem, For polluted hath Judah the holy thing of Jehovah, That He hath loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningPolygamySanctuaryLoving God's Things

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Foreign (157 instances)
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