Strong's H5234 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: נָכַר (nâkar)

Pronunciation: naw-kar'

Morphology: v

Derivation: a primitive root;

Definition: 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 Renderings: acknowledge, [idiom] could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).

Senses

1. to recognise, acknowledge, know, respect, discern, regard
1. (Niphal) to be recognised
2. (Piel) to regard
3. (Hiphil)
4. to regard, observe, pay attention to, pay regard to, notice
5. to recognise (as formerly known), perceive
6. to be willing to recognise or acknowledge, acknowledge with honour
7. to be acquainted with
8. to distinguish, understand
9. (Hithpael) to make oneself known
2. to act or treat as foreign or strange, disguise, misconstrue
1. (Niphal) to disguise oneself
2. (Piel)
3. to treat as foreign (profane)
4. to misconstrue
5. (Hithpael)
6. to act as alien
7. to disguise oneself

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.