16 occurrences

'Strange' in the Bible

For you are not sent to a people whose talk is strange and whose language is hard, but to the children of Israel;

Not to a number of peoples whose talk is strange and whose language is hard and whose words are not clear to you. Truly, if I sent you to them they would give ear to you.

Verse ConceptsUnintelligiblenessNot Understanding Language

And I will give it into the hands of men from strange lands who will take it by force, and to the evil-doers of the earth to have for themselves; and they will make it unholy.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersProsperity Of The Wicked

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

Verse ConceptsRejection Of GodEstrangementSeparation From GodGod Opposes IdolatryStrong Delusion

When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:

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

The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

Verse ConceptsWivesRelations With ForeignersWifespouseloversadultry

In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansParentsWidowsWicked Children, Regard To ParentsChildren, UngratefulOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping WidowsNot Honouring Parents

The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.

Verse ConceptsAliens, God's AttitudeExtortion, Examples OfAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, Nature OfOutsidersUnkindnessOppression, Examples OfPoor, The Wicked Response ToOppressing ForeignersOppressorsNot Helping The Poor

See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

Verse ConceptsForeignersSuffering From ForeignersLosing HonourPeople Without Mercy

Your death will be the death of those who are without circumcision, by the hands of men from strange lands: for I have said it, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUncircumcisionSuffering From ForeignersDying With The Uncircumcised

And I will make the Nile streams dry, and will give the land into the hands of evil men, causing the land and everything in it to be wasted by the hands of men from a strange country: I the Lord have said it.

Verse ConceptsdrynessLand Becoming EmptyWaters Drying UpGod Drying Things UpSuffering From ForeignersFamine

And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFelling TreesAbandoning ThingsSuffering From ForeignersThings Falling

And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing PeopleTroubling Groups Of People

To have let men from strange lands, without circumcision of heart or flesh, come into my holy place, making my house unclean; and to have made the offering of my food, even the fat and the blood; and in addition to all your disgusting ways, you have let my agreement be broken.

Verse ConceptsBlood Of SacrificesPollutionsForeigners In The Holy PlacesBreaking The CovenantFat Of The SacrificesUncircumcised In HeartCovenant Made At Sinai

For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.

Verse ConceptsForeignersExclusivenessForeigners In The Holy PlacesStrangers in israel

In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included Among The People

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Foreign (157 instances)
Strange (251 instances)
Unknown (34 instances)
Unusual (8 instances)

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain