Words the Bible translates as be a stranger
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gurגּוּרto live somewhere as a resident outsider: to settle for a time among people not your own, without owning the land or holding the rights of a native
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- to be afraid, to dread: to shrink back in fear before a person, a threat, or God
- to assail, to stir up strife: to gather in hostility against someone, to attack
- zurזוּרto be an outsider: to stand on the wrong side of a line that matters here, whether a circle, a household, a nation, the covenant, or holy space
- paroikeōπαροικέωbe a strangernot studied yet
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