Definition

foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom

Etymology

' from H5234 (נָכַר);

Word family

• נָכַר nâkar

How the KJV renders it

• alien
• strange ( -er)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.