Bible dictionaries
Outlandish
What Bible dictionaries say about “Outlandish”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Outlandish - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
OUTLAND'ISH, a.
1. Foreign; not native.
Nevertheless, even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
2. Born or produced in the interior country, or among rude people; hence, vulgar; rustic; rude; clownish. [This is the sense in which the word is among us most generally used.]
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
out-land'-ish (Ne 13:26, the King James Version "Him did outlandish women cause to sin") "Outlandish" in modern English is colloquial only and with the sense "utterly extraordinary," but the King James Version uses it in the literal meaning "out of the land," "foreign," the English Revised Version "strange women," the American Standard Revised Version "foreign women," Hebrew nokhri, "foreign."
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915