異い邦ほう人じん

noun

foreigner; alien

Neutral term for a person from another country; can sound slightly formal or literary compared to 外国人.

• 彼かれは異い邦ほう人じんとして、その国くにの習しゅう慣かんに戸と惑まどった。

  As a foreigner, he was bewildered by the customs of that country.

noun

stranger; outsider

Used for someone unfamiliar or not belonging to a group; can carry a nuance of emotional distance.

• 村むらでは、よそ者ものはいつまでも異い邦ほう人じん扱あつかいだった。

  In the village, outsiders were always treated as strangers.

noun

gentile; non-Jew

Religious/ethnic term for a non-Jewish person; often encountered in biblical or historical contexts.

• 聖せい書しょでは、異い邦ほう人じんはユダヤ人じん以い外がいの民みん族ぞくを指さす。

  In the Bible, 'gentile' refers to peoples other than the Jews.