21 occurrences

'Stranger' in the Bible

"I [am] a stranger and an alien among you; give to me {my own burial site} among you so that I may bury my dead from before me.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

And Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he pretended to be a stranger to them. And he spoke with them harshly and said to them, "From where have you come?" And they said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

And they will eat them--[the things] by which atonement was made for them to ordain them to consecrate them--and a stranger will not eat [them] because they are holy objects.

Verse ConceptsStrangersPriests Atoning

Anyone who compounds perfume like it and who puts it on a stranger will be cut off from his people.'"

Verse ConceptsThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

" '{No stranger shall eat} [the] votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat [the] votive offering.

Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

And when the tabernacle is set out, the Levites will {take it down}, and when encamping the tabernacle the Levites will set it up; the stranger that approaches [it] will be put to death.

Verse ConceptsAccess To God, In Old TestamentStrangersExclusionMaking The TabernacleDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is NearDeath ApproachingMoving To A New Place

Those encamped before the tabernacle to the east--before the tent of assembly to the east--[were] Moses and Aaron and his sons; they will keep the responsibility of the sanctuary {for the Israelites}; and the stranger who approaches will be put to death.

Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceCamping During The ExodusDanger When God Is Near

They will be joined to you, and they will keep the responsibility of the tent of assembly for the entire service of the tent; a stranger may not come near you.

But you with your sons will keep your priesthood to perform your priestly duties for everything at the altar and for {the area behind the curtain}. I give you the priesthood as a gift, but the stranger who approaches will be put to death."

Verse ConceptsAaron, Priestly ResponsibilitiesAccess To God, In Old TestamentMediatorPriesthood, In OtServanthood, And Worship Of GodExclusionDeath Due To God's PresenceDanger When God Is Near

{to whom alone} the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Verse ConceptsGuestsReckoned As Foreigners

whom {I will see for myself}, and [whom] my eyes will see and not a stranger. {My heart faints within me}.

Verse ConceptsHeart, HumanHuman Desiresmyself

My child, if you have pledged to your neighbor, [if] you have bound {yourself} to the stranger,

Verse ConceptsHandsShaking HandsDebtFriendship Kjv

The heart knows the bitterness of its soul, but in its joy, it will not share itself with a stranger.

Verse ConceptsNature Of The HeartFamily ProblemsBitternessGrateful HeartA Broken Heartcancergrieving

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

Verse ConceptsBorrowing, SuretyPledges

May another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Verse ConceptsCommendationBraggingCommending OneselfLoving YourselfBeing YourselfBoasting

Take his garment, for he gives surety [to] a stranger, and to {an adulteress}--[so] take his pledge.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

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