Words the Bible translates as foreigner
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gerגֵּרa resident foreigner: someone who has left his own land and people and settled long-term among Israel, living under its protection but without a native's land and family rights
- 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
- nokhriנׇכְרִיforeign: belonging to another people or another person, not one's own
- nekharנֵכָרforeignness: what belongs to another people or land, and so is alien to Israel and its God
- paroikosπάροικοςa resident alien: a long-term, tolerated outsider who lives among a people but never counts as a full member
- xenosξένοςa stranger or foreigner: a person who is outside the community, family, or homeland where they find themselves
+2 more meanings
- a host: the person who takes a stranger in and provides lodging and welcome
- strange or foreign: unfamiliar, coming from outside, not what one is used to
- toshavתּוֹשָׁבa resident alien: a free but landless dependent who lives among a people not his own, without the rights of a native citizen
- barbarosβάρβαροςa non-Greek: someone from outside the Greek-speaking world, whose speech a Greek could not follow
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