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# stranger

«stranger» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **foreigner living in the land** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

foreigner living in the land

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A person who is not from the land and lives among its people without being one of their family or nation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stranger/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a stranger is someone you do not know. The old sense is a foreigner living among a people. The first and third sentences use the old sense; the second uses today's sense.

### examples

- Love ye therefore the stranger; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Torah DEU.10.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stranger/#x1)
- "Howdy, Daddy Ben?" the stranger exclaimed. (Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stranger/#x2)
- Cursed be he that perverteth the justice due to the stranger, fatherless, and widow. (Torah DEU.27.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stranger/#x3)

### primary record

stranger

### tests

manual 10.3; corpora 380 (Torah 58, tales 322, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 3; ratio 6.1 (Torah alone 19.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [Are we not accounted by him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath also quite devoured our price.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.949/)
- [One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.360/)
- [And a stranger shalt thou not wrong, neither shalt thou oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.636/)
- [And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.575/)
- [And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and settlers with Me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.756/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stranger» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/stranger/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.