49 occurrences

'Strange' in the Bible

And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

Verse ConceptsFamilies, Examples OfHeads Of The FamilyClean, Spiritual UseReformationIdolsEmployers, Good ExamplesForeign ThingsChanging ClothesClean ClothesPutting Away Other GodsChanging YourselfHinduism

And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods that were in their hand, and the rings that were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the terebinth that is by Shechem.

Verse ConceptsEarringsOrnamentsRingsForeign ThingsOaksHidden ThingsPutting Away Other Godsjewelry

And Joseph saw his brethren, and knew them; but he made himself strange to them, and spoke roughly to them, and said to them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to buy food.

Verse ConceptsPretenceAwarenessBuying FoodRecognising PeopledisguisesWhere From?

Ye shall offer up no strange incense thereon, nor burnt-offering, nor oblation; neither shall ye pour drink-offering thereon.

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

Whoever compoundeth any like it, or whoever putteth any of it upon any strange thing, shall be cut off from his peoples.

Verse ConceptsThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, took each of them his censer, and put fire in it, and put incense on it, and presented strange fire before Jehovah, which he had not commanded them.

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

And Nadab and Abihu died before Jehovah when they offered strange fire before Jehovah in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no sons; and Eleazar and Ithamar exercised the priesthood in the presence of Aaron their father.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning SacrificesDying In The Desert

And Nadab and Abihu died, when they presented strange fire before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsDeath As PunishmentBurning Sacrifices

And Jehovah said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the strange gods of the land into which they enter, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.

Verse ConceptsProstitutionRest, PhysicalSleep, And DeathTrust, Lack OfNearness Of DeathBreaking The CovenantDeath Will Soon HappenDeath

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsGod, Zeal OfJealousyGod, Jealous

If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod Will Bring HarmForgiving Others Who Hurt YouServing God

Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRestoration After BackslidingAbandoning Things

And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If ye return to Jehovah with all your heart, put away the strange gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and apply your hearts unto Jehovah, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.

Verse ConceptsConversion, nature ofCommitment, to Goddouble mindednessReformationSyncretismDivided HeartsUnquestioning ServiceReturning To GodWhole HeartednessIndividuals Saving OthersPutting Away Other GodsServing Asherah

I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

Verse ConceptsdrynessPeople Drying Things UpFeet In ActionFailing Rivers

and he took away the altars of the strange gods and the high places, and broke the columns, and cut down the Asherahs;

Verse ConceptsHigh PlacesShrinesDestruction Of Satan's WorksObelisks

And he removed the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built on the mount of the house of Jehovah and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

Verse ConceptsReformationBuilding AltarsDestruction Of Satan's Works

My breath is strange to my wife, and my entreaties to the children of my mother's womb.

Verse ConceptsOffencePeople Being Hatedreuniting

If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

There shall no strange god be in thee, neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.

Verse ConceptsMonotheismIdolatry Consists OfDo Not Have Other godsWorshiping GodWorshiping Together

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

Verse ConceptsInfatuationAvoid Adultery

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsTongueEleganceThe TongueWomen's Beauty

that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall speak froward things;

Verse ConceptsAlcoholImagination, Evil SchemingSpectacle

Take his garment that is become surety for another, and hold him in pledge for a strange woman.

Verse ConceptsCreditBorrowing, SuretyPledges

For Jehovah will rise up as on mount Perazim, he will be moved with anger as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and perform his act, his unwonted act.

Verse ConceptsGod ArisingWhat God Does

It is I that have declared, and have saved, and have shewed, when there was no strange god among you; and ye are my witnesses, saith Jehovah, that I am God.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsI Am The Lord

And I, I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?

Verse ConceptsDebaucheryRejection Of God, Results OfVines

And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah our God done all these things unto us? then shalt thou say to them, As ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Verse ConceptsForeignersForsaking GodRenunciationUnfaithfulness, To GodIdolatry Consists OfSuffering From ForeignersNo Earthly InheritanceServing GroupsWhy Does God Do This?

For thou art not sent to a people of strange language, and of difficult speech, but to the house of Israel;

not to many peoples of strange language and of difficult speech, whose words thou canst not understand: had I sent thee to them, would they not hearken unto thee?

Verse ConceptsUnintelligiblenessNot Understanding Language

And he will practise in the strongholds of fortresses with a strange +god: whoso acknowledgeth him will he increase with glory; and he shall cause them to rule over the many, and shall divide the land to them for a reward.

Verse ConceptsThe Honourable Will Be Honoured

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah; for they havebegotten strange children: now shall the new moon devour them, with their allotted possessions.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodNew Moon FestivalBeginning Of PeriodsUnfaithful

I have prescribed unto him the manifold things of my law: they are counted as a strange thing.

Verse ConceptsForeign ThingsThe Law Given To IsraelOld Testament Claims Inspiration

Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuary of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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

And astonishment seized all, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to-day.

Verse ConceptsAmazingReverence, And God's NatureAmazement, Of Christ's MiraclesTodayFear Of ChristSpecific Praising Of GodAwesurprises

And God spoke thus: His seed shall be a sojourner in a strange land, and they shall enslave them and evil entreat them four hundred years;

Verse ConceptsGod, Human Descriptions Of100 Years And MoreThose OppressedReckoned As ForeignersGroups Of SlavesStrangers in israelslaveryoppression

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears. We wish therefore to know what these things may mean.

Verse ConceptsMeaning

It is written in the law, By people of other tongues, and by strange lips, will I speak to this people; and neither thus will they hear me, saith the Lord.

Verse ConceptsForeignersUnknown Languages

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same sink of corruption, speaking injuriously of you;

Verse ConceptsAbuse, To God's PeopleInsultsSuffering, Of BelieversNot SharingPartyingAbusebehaviorpetersurprises

Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you;

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes ToPromises To The AfflictedRefining Influences Of AfflictionFire Of JudgementPatience In Hard TimesTestsartiststrailsfreemasonrysurprises

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Foreign (157 instances)
Strange (251 instances)
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Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

זוּר 
Zuwr 
Usage: 77

נכרי 
Nokriy 
Usage: 46

ξενίζω 
Xenizo 
Usage: 10

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

גּוּר 
Guwr 
Usage: 98

הכר 
Hakar 
Usage: 1

וזר 
Vazar 
Usage: 1

חנק 
Chanaq 
Usage: 2

מגר מגוּר 
Maguwr 
Usage: 11

מחנק 
Machanaq 
Usage: 2

נכר נכר 
Neker 
Usage: 1

נכר 
Nekar 
Usage: 36

עמק 
`ameq 
Usage: 3

תּשׁב תּושׁב 
Towshab 
Usage: 14

ἀλλότριος 
Allotrios 
Usage: 10

ἔξω 
Exo 
Usage: 50

ἐπιδημέω 
Epidemeo 
Usage: 2

ξενοδοχέω 
Xenodocheo 
Usage: 1

ξένος 
Xenos 
Usage: 10

παράδοξος 
Paradoxos 
Usage: 1

παρεπίδημος 
Parepidemos 
Usage: 3

παροικέω 
Paroikeo 
be a stranger , sojourn
Usage: 2

παροικία 
Paroikia 
Usage: 2

πάροικος 
Paroikos 
Usage: 4

πνικτός 
Pniktos 
Usage: 3

φιλονεξία 
Philoxenia 
Usage: 2