H1616 - גֵּר (gêr)

H1616 גֵּר (gêr) gare

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

sojourner

Strong's Definition

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

Derivation: or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);

KJV Usage: alien, sojourner, stranger.

TWOT Reference: 330a

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) sojourner

1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights

1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G3581 G3941 G4339

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) sojourner 1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights 1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

גֵּיר / גֵּר gêr / gêyr BDB Definition: 1) sojourner 1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights 1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H1481 Same Word by TWOT Number: 330a Total KJV Occurrences: 92

Bible Occurrences (83)

15:13 23:4

2:22 12:19 12:48 12:49 18:3 20:10 22:21 23:9 23:12

16:29 17:8 17:10 17:12 17:13 17:15 18:26 19:10 19:33 19:34 20:2 22:18 23:22 24:16 24:22 25:23 25:35 25:47

9:14 15:14 15:15 15:16 15:26 15:29 15:30 19:10 35:15

8:33 8:35 20:9

1:13

22:2 29:15

2:17 30:25

31:32

39:12 94:6 119:19 146:9

14:1

7:6 14:8 22:3

14:7 22:7 22:29 47:22 47:23

7:10

3:5

Genesis 15:13

Then [the LORD] said to Abram, Know for certain... that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 23:4

I [am] a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead....

Exodus 2:22

And she gave birth to a son, and [Moses] named him...... Gershom, saying, I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.

Exodus 12:19

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males [in the household] must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land.... But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Exodus 12:49

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.

Exodus 18:3

along with her two sons. One [son] was named Gershom, for Moses had said, I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work— neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.