The same reudering would reproduce "!:: in Gn 31^ [but here, perhaps, in narrower sense of ' not of one's father's family '], Dt 14-' [II ii] 15' (of. '3 s'-x 17") 23" [o])p. 'thy brother'] 29'-' [+ ' who cometh from a far distant land '], Jg 17'- (defined liy ' who is not of the children of Israel'), Ru 210, 2S 15'^ [II n^3 ' exile '], 1 K 8*' [ -f- ' who is not of thy peoi)le '] =2Ch a'^, v.«=2Ch 6», Is 2«, La 5=, Ob" [both 1; Di;]. So we should have a ' foreign (not ' strange ') )>eople' ("!:} ci' Ex 21* [E]), 'foreign apparel' ('3 ci:^5 Zeph 1"), ' foreign land ' {■in:} j-ix Ex 2-"- [.J] 18' [E]) ; note esp. ni'i;; C'?'3 of ' strange {i.e. foreign [non-Isr.]) wives '(IK 11'- », Ezr 10-- '"• "■ '*• "• '»• ", Neh 13-'- "). A ' strange woman ' (n.'i:;) is a teclin. term in Proverbs for a harlot (jierhaps because in Israel harlots were originally chiefly foreigners) : Pr 2'« 7' 5=" [all || n-j) (nyx)] G*" [II ST] n:?x] 23" [II n;ii].
The word ij, which is also frequently rendered ' stranger ' in AV, can in some of its usages hardly be distinguished in sense from 'i;j (see art. FoRKlGNEK), but, if a distinctive Eng. term be desired, we wouM suggest ' alien ' (used in AV in Ex 18' [wrongly for ' sojourner,' ger], Dt 14'-', Job 19", Ps 69»i"i, La 5» [all n;}]. Is 61' [ijj -i?]. He 1 1*^ [dWirpiot], Eph 2'* [aTrrt\\uTpiiiifiit>oi || l^voi] ; anil introduced by RV in Pr 5'» [ii], Ezk 44' [vn?], and by Amer. RV in Ps 144'- " [-gi 'J?]).
Zdr may denote ' alien ' or ' strange ' in a nar- rower or a wider sense ; (a) strange to a person : Job 19'" ' and mine eyes shall behold, and not another' (m. ' as a stranger'), a passage of doubtful meaning ; Pr 14'° ' The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy ' ; 27' ' Let another man praise thee ... a stranger . . . ' ; cf. the ' alien woman ' (."if x ■Tj!) of Pr 2"' 5'- » 7» 22" 23" [several times || nnjj, see above]. (6) Strange to a, family, i.e. belonging to another household : Dt 25^ 1 K 3", Job 19'*, P» 109", Pr 5'»- " 6' 1 1" 20" 27" ; tig. of anotfier house- hold than God's, Hos ."5' ; esji. of another family than the priests (Ex 29-'^ 30", Nu3"'-'» 17' [Eng. 16*"] 18' [all P], Lv 22'»- '2- " [all II]), or of another tribe than Levi (Nu 1" 18* [toth P]). (c) Strange to a land, i.e. foreign ; so freq. plur. D'lj ' foreigners,'
• Cf. Udall, Erairm. Paraph. 1. fol. 65, 'the itraunjje woman' (of the Syro-PhajDlclan) ; Uomilwg, p. 612, '» certain strange pbiloeopher ' ; Shalu. Henry V'lll. 11. iv. 16 —
' I am a most poor woman, and a straogw. Born out of your dominione. '
'aliens' (often with the implication of hostility): Hos 7' 8', Is 1' •>" 25"» 29' 61», Jer 5'» SO' 51-- ", La 5^ Ezk 7-' 11' 16" 28'-'" 30'= 31'-, Jl 4 (3)", Ob". Job 15", Ps 54'!'' ; note esp. tlie phrases a ' strange god' (IJ "^x Ps 442' I-*! SI'"!-'!, la 4312 [1, alone, cf. D'"!; 'strange ones' in Dt 32" and in Jer 2-" 3"]), 'strange (i.e. foreign) waters' (2 K 19**, Jer 18"), 'strange slips' (ii nT^i, lit. '\'ine-slip of an alien,' Is 17'°) ; God's tOrah is counted as alien ('^ynj "ino? Hos 8'-); 'his work-is alien '(Is 28'-', see below). ((/) Strange to the Law : ' strange incense ' (tji n^bp Ex 30' [P]); 'strange fire' (.-n.j i?x Lv 10', Nu 3* 20'^' [all P]). See Nadab.
Tlie LXX and NT equivalents of ' strange ' and 'stranger' in the senses discussed above will be found under art. FoitElGNER.
Tlie idea of foreign naturally leads to that of unfamiliar or unknoiim : Job 19" ' I am become a foreigner (n?;) in their ej'es'; Ps 69"!'' 'I am become estranged (ij'O) unto my brethren, and a foreigner ('i;;) to my motlier's children ' ; Ec 6' 'a stranger (-i;;) eateth it' ; Is 2S-' ' foreign ('TI^j) is his task, alien (ii) his act' [cf. the common ex- pression ' tliis is foreign to one's nature ' ; or is the meaning here that he acts as if dealing with (foreign) enemies?] ; Jer 2'-" a foreign vine '( nn^j [js fig. of degenerate Israel) ; Pr 20'^ 27", where ii and ••i?j are both used of persons unknown to one.*
This last usage approaches, but does not reach, the modern sense of 'strange,' namely /jcch/mt or wonderful, a sense wliich is pretty near to tliat re- presented by fci'ifoi'rd Tiva (' certain strange things') of Ac 17™ (cf. fcKifoi/ffai ffv/i.4)opal, ' strange suB'er- ings' of 2 Mac 9"), fei'ifoi'Tai ('they think it strange') of 1 P 4*, and pLri ^evlifcree (' think it not strange') of v.". Once only is this sense unmis- takably conveyed bj' ' strange ' in canonical Scrip- ture, naniuly in Lk 5^ ' We have seen strange things to-day.' The Gr. is Trapdooios, which occurs in tlie same sense in the Apocrypha in Jtli 13", Wis 5- 19' (cf. v.8 ffau/xajTos), Sir 43'-^, 2 Mac 9^ [EV in last 'contrarj' to expectation'].