zur marks a person outside a household, family, or authorized group, and things treated as foreign or unauthorized.

The attested adjectival uses chiefly identify people as outsiders to a household, family, priestly sphere, or community, including foreign peoples. They also characterize offerings, gods, waters, instruction, and other things as foreign or not belonging in the stated setting.

1. Outsiders and foreign people · dominant

   The term marks persons outside a defined group or place: in Deuteronomy 25:5 the APB renders the clause about a widow not marrying outside the family “to a stranger,” while Leviticus 22:10 excludes an “outsider” from a holy thing. In Numbers 18:7, an outsider approaching the priestly area faces death; in Ezekiel 28:7, foreigners are brought against the addressed city.

   Deuteronomy 25:5Leviticus 22:10Numbers 18:7Ezekiel 28:7Isaiah 61:5Job 19:15
2. Foreign or unauthorized things and actions · common

   The adjective also qualifies things that are presented as outside the required or expected order. In Exodus 30:9 the APB renders “strange incense,” and Leviticus 10:1 describes fire “which he had not commanded”; Deuteronomy 32:16 places the plural form with foreign gods, while Hosea 8:12 says written instruction is regarded as “something foreign.”

   Exodus 30:9Leviticus 10:1Deuteronomy 32:16Hosea 8:12Isaiah 28:212 Kings 19:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously uses “stranger,” “outsider,” “foreigners,” and “strange,” according to the verse’s people or object in view. These renderings show the clauses’ presentation rather than a separate English equivalent in every instance.