A FOREIGNER — someone who belongs elsewhere, and the word this book keeps carefully apart from the ger, the resident outsider it commands you to feed, clothe and love. The distinction is legal and consistent: a ger lives among you and is protected; a nokhri is passing through or trading. ⭐ Deuteronomy 17:15 is the sharpest use — the throne is closed to him, a foreign man, who is not your brother — in the same book that opens the harvest and the festival table to the ger. The two rules are not in tension; they answer different questions, one about welfare and one about power. ⚠ The same word governs the release of debts (Deuteronomy 15:3, where the nokhri may still be pressed) and interest (23:21, where a nokhri may be made to pay it and a brother may not — a verse whose medieval reading, with 'brother' taken as fellow Christian, helped build the figure of the Jewish moneylender out of a law that defines neither party by faith). ⭐ Its feminine plural is what 1 Kings 11:1 uses of Solomon's wives — the very danger 17:17 names. → first discussed at Deut 17:15