נָכַר
nākar
act as foreign
Strong's H5234VerbHebrewTWOT 1368

נָכַר (nākar) is a Hebrew verb meaning act as foreign. It appears 50 times in 16 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H5234).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 1368)

Range of meaning (TWOT 1368)regard, recognize; they are not recognized; he regardeth not the opulent above the poor; observe, Be willing to recognize, acknowledge, Be acquianted with, Distinguish, understand; scrutinize, recognition, be acquainted with…
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

נָכַר verb: regard, recognize

Strong's H5234 נָכַר: 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)
KJV:acknowledge, × could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

See it in Scripture

Genesis 27:23Deuteronomy 1:17Judges 18:3

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