Genesis 35:2
Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:
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Strange
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Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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Genesis
33 verses
Exodus
44 verses
Leviticus
11 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
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22 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
Ezra
77 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
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33 verses
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76 verses
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1111 verses
Isaiah
43 verses
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33 verses
Ezekiel
22 verses
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11 verses
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22 verses
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11 verses
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11 verses
Luke
11 verses
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44 verses
Hebrews
22 verses
1 Peter
32 verses
Jude
11 verses
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נֵכָר
nêkâr · nay-kawr'
17 times translated as this KJV form25 total Strong's occurrences
foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom
Strong's KJV usage: alien, strange ( -er).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 35:2Strong's last: Malachi 2:11
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nokrîy · nok-ree'
16 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
Strong's KJV usage: alien, foreigner, outlandish, strange(-r, woman).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 2:22Strong's last: Zephaniah 1:8
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zûwr · zoor
15 times translated as this KJV form74 total Strong's occurrences
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
Strong's KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-) strange(-r, thing, woman).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:9Strong's last: Hosea 5:7
Open full H2114 profile →ξενίζω
xenízō · xen-id'-zo
3 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to be a host (passively, a guest); by implication, be (make, appear) strange
Strong's KJV usage: :--entertain, lodge, (think it) strange.
Strong's first: Acts 17:20Strong's last: 1 Peter 4:12
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xénos · xen'-os
2 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
foreign (literally, alien, or figuratively, novel); by implication, a guest or (vice-versa) entertainer
Strong's KJV usage: :--host, strange(-r).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 17:18Strong's last: Hebrews 13:9
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ʻâmêq · aw-make'
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
deep (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: deeper, depth, strange.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 3:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 3:6
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allótrios · al-lot'-ree-os
1 times translated as this KJV form14 total Strong's occurrences
another's, i.e. not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile
Strong's KJV usage: :--alien, (an-)other (man's, men's), strange(-r).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:6Strong's last: Acts 7:6
Open full G245 profile →ἔξω
éxō · ex'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form65 total Strong's occurrences
out(-side, of doors), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--away, forth, (with-)out (of, -ward), strange.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 26:11Strong's last: Acts 26:11
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héteros · het'-er-os
1 times translated as this KJV form98 total Strong's occurrences
(an-, the) other or different
Strong's KJV usage: :--altered, else, next (day), one, (an-)other, some, strange.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jude 1:7Strong's last: Jude 1:7
Open full G2087 profile →אַחֵר
ʼachêr · akh-air'
1 times translated as this KJV form166 total Strong's occurrences
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: (an-) other man, following, next, strange.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Judges 11:2Strong's last: Judges 11:2
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hâkar · haw-kar'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to injure
Strong's KJV usage: make self strange.
Strong's first: Job 19:3Strong's last: Job 19:3
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vâzâr · vaw-zawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
crime
Strong's KJV usage: × strange.
Strong's first: Proverbs 21:8Strong's last: Proverbs 21:8
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nâkar · naw-kar'
1 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
Strong's KJV usage: acknowledge, × could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:7Strong's last: Genesis 42:7
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neker · neh'-ker
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
something strange, i.e. unexpected calamity
Strong's KJV usage: strange.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 31:3Strong's last: Job 31:3
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no direct Strong's tag
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
H2114
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
H2114
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
H5237
For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
H2114
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
H5237
Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
H5236
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the LORD our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
H5236
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
H6012
For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;
H6012
Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened unto thee.
H5236
Thus shall he do in the most strong holds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
H2114
They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.
no direct Strong's tag
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
H5237
And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
H5236
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
no direct Strong's tag
And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.
G245
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.
G3581
Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
G3579
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
G1854
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
no direct Strong's tag
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
G3581
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
G3579
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
G3579
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
no direct Strong's tag
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
English meaning and historical usage.
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strange
STRANGE, adjective [Latin]
1. Foreign; belonging to anther country.
I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]
2. Not domestic; belonging to others.
So she impatient her own faults to see, turns from herself, and in strange things delights. [Nearly obsolete.]
3. New; not before known, heard or seen. The former custom was familiar; the latter was new and strange to them. Hence,
4. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity. It is strange that men will not receive improvement, when it is shown to be improvement.
Sated at length, ere long I might perceive strange alteration in me.
5. Odd; unusual; irregular; not according to the common way.
He's strange and peevish.
6. Remote. [Little used.]
7. Uncommon; unusual.
This made David to admire the law of god at that strange rate.
8. Unacquainted.
They were now at a gage, looking strange at one another.
9. strange is sometimes uttered by way of exclamation.
STRANGE! What extremes should thus preserve the snow, high on the Alps, or in deep caves below.
This is an elliptical expression for it is strange
STRANGE, verb transitive To alienate; to estrange. [Not in use.]
STRANGE, verb intransitive
1. To wonder; to be astonished. [Not in use.]
2. To be estranged or alienated. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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