[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/foreign.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The Judaism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/) / foreign [← F](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/F/) # foreign «foreign» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **from or belonging to another country, not your own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech adjective (foreign, more foreign) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Foreign means from or belonging to another country, not your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#m1) 2) Foreign means strange or unknown to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#m2) 3) A foreign object or body is something that is in a place where it should not be, like dirt in an eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The "foreign gods" are idols from other peoples. A master could not sell a Hebrew maidservant to a foreign people. Interpretation: Jacob burying the idols is read by tradition as a clean break from idol worship before going up to Bethel. The law protecting the maidservant is read as showing care for the weak. In the primary lessons: In geography and languages lessons: foreign countries, foreign languages, foreign money. In first aid: "a foreign body in the eye". In stories it shows something new or strange. Phrases: foreign language, foreign country, foreign currency, foreign object, foreign to (strange to). ### examples - And they gave unto Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hand, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth which was by Shechem. (Torah GEN.35.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x1) - If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed; to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her. (Torah EXO.21.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x2) - How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land? (Writings PSA.137.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x3) - There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god. (Writings PSA.81.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x4) - And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods. (Prophets 1KI.11.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x5) - French is a foreign language for me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x6) - We changed our money into foreign currency. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x7) - He has never been to a foreign country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x8) - The doctor took a foreign body out of her eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x9) - The idea of a lie-in was foreign to my dad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x10) - Foreign visitors came to our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x11) - Don't put foreign objects in your ears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x12) - The museum has coins from many foreign lands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x13) - Ah, how delightful it is to travel into foreign lands!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/#x14) ### note Spelling trap: f-o-r-e-i-g-n (silent g; "ei" breaks the "i before e" rule). Person: foreigner, which can sound unkind; "visitor" or "people from other countries" is kinder. ### In the corpora - [And so did he for all his foreign wives, who offered and sacrificed unto their gods.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.416/) - [There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1447/) - [How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2508/) - [And they were finished with all the men that had married foreign women by the first day of the first month.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.259/) - [All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EZR.286/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «foreign» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/foreign/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.