OUTCAST

out'-kast: Represents some form of dachah, or nadhach, both meaning "thrust out." In Jeremiah 30:17 "outcast" means "thrust out of society," "degraded person"; elsewhere it means "exile" (Psalms 147:2; Isaiah 16:3 f; Jeremiah 49:36).

From the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Edited by James Orr, published in 1939 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.