5 occurrences

'Strange' in the Bible

So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.

Verse ConceptsMaking The Message ClearMere TalkIgnorant Of FactsLanguageThe TonguespeakingSpeech

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.

Verse ConceptsBarbariansMeaningReckoned As Foreigners

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.

Verse ConceptsFive ThingsThinking ArightTeaching In The ChurchEach Local ChurchLanguageThe TonguespeakingMaturityorder

In the law it is said, By men of other tongues and by strange lips will my words come to this people; and not even so will they give ear to me, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnknown Languages

Bible Theasaurus

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