9 occurrences in 11 translations

'Aliens' in the Bible

Your land lies desolate [because of your disobedience],Your cities are burned with fire,Your fields—strangers are devouring them in your very presence;It is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Most certainly [Lord] You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob,Because they are filled with influences from the east,And they are soothsayers [who foretell] like the Philistines;Also they strike bargains with the children of foreigners (pagans).

Then the lambs will graze [among the ruins] as in their own pasture,And strangers will eat in the desolate places of the [exiled] wealthy.

Let my outcasts [of] Moab dwell as aliens among you; be a hiding place for them from [the] presence of [the] destroyer." When the oppressor is no more, destruction has stopped, [the] {one who tramples has} disappeared from the land,

For You have made a city into a heap [of trash],A fortified city into a ruin;A palace of foreigners is no longer a city,It will never be rebuilt.

Like heat in drought, You subdue the uproar of aliens;Like heat by the shadow of a cloud, the song of the ruthless is silenced.

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: "My people went down [to] Egypt in the beginning, to dwell as aliens there, and Assyria oppressed him {without cause}.

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

The Lord has sworn [an oath] by His right hand and by His mighty arm,“I will never again give your grain as food for your enemies,Nor will [the invading] foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּיר גּר 
Ger 
Usage: 92

יקע 
Yaqa` 
Usage: 8

נכר 
Nekar 
Usage: 36

נכרי 
Nokriy 
Usage: 46

נקע 
Naqa` 
Usage: 3

ἀλλότριος 
Allotrios 
Usage: 10

ἀπαλλοτριόω 
Apallotrioo 
be alienated with , be alien
Usage: 3

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