His father was a stranger— i.e.. A sojourner, not one of the original inhabitants and possessors of the land: the Hebrew, in the margin of our Bibles, in the land of his father's sojourning, is perhaps the most proper. The LXX have it, in which his father dwelt.
Related Commentaries of Genesis 37:1
Genesis 37:1
1 And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.