1) sojourner 1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights 1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
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Genesis 15:13 · גֵ֣ר׀He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your seed will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.Genesis 23:4 · גֵּר־“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”Exodus 2:22 · גֵּ֣רShe bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”Exodus 12:19 · בַּגֵּ֖רThere shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.Exodus 12:48 · גֵּ֗רWhen a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.Exodus 12:49 · וְלַגֵּ֖רOne law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”Exodus 18:3 · גֵּ֣רand her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.Exodus 20:10 · וְגֵרְךָ֖֙but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;Exodus 22:21 · וְגֵ֥ר · גֵרִ֥ים“You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.Exodus 23:9 · וְגֵ֖ר · הַגֵּ֔ר · גֵרִ֥ים“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.Exodus 23:12 · וְהַגֵּֽר׃“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.Leviticus 16:29 · וְהַגֵּ֖ר“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:Leviticus 17:8 · הַגֵּ֖ר“You shall say to them, ‘Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,Leviticus 17:10 · הַגֵּר֙“‘Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.Leviticus 17:12 · וְהַגֵּ֛רTherefore I have said to the children of Israel, “No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood.”Leviticus 17:13 · הַגֵּר֙“‘Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.Leviticus 17:15 · וּבַגֵּ֑ר“‘Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.Leviticus 18:26 · וְהַגֵּ֖רYou therefore shall keep my statutes and my ordinances, and shall not do any of these abominations; neither the native-born, nor the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;Leviticus 19:10 · וְלַגֵּר֙You shall not glean your vineyard, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.Leviticus 19:33 · גֵּ֖ר“‘If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.Leviticus 19:34 · הַגֵּ֣ר׀ · גֵרִ֥יםThe stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you lived as foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.Leviticus 20:2 · הַגֵּ֣ר׀“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his seed to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.Leviticus 22:18 · הַגֵּ֣ר“Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them, ‘Whoever is of the house of Israel, or of the foreigners in Israel, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to Yahweh for a burnt offering;Leviticus 23:22 · וְלַגֵּר֙“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap into the corners of your field, neither shall you gather the gleanings of your harvest: you shall leave them for the poor, and for the foreigner. I am Yahweh your God.’”Leviticus 24:16 · כַּגֵּר֙He who blasphemes the name of Yahweh, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: the foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.Leviticus 24:22 · כַּגֵּ֥רYou shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am Yahweh your God.’”Leviticus 25:23 · גֵרִ֧ים“‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.Leviticus 25:35 · גֵּ֧ר“‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support him among you; then you shall uphold him. He shall live with you like an alien and a temporary resident.Leviticus 25:47 · גֵּ֤ר · לְגֵ֤ר · גֵּֽר׃“‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger’s family;Numbers 9:14 · גֵּ֗ר · וְלַגֵּ֖ר“‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”Numbers 15:14 · גֵּ֜רIf a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, or whoever may be among you throughout your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh; as you do, so he shall do.Numbers 15:15 · וְלַגֵּ֣ר · כַּגֵּ֥רFor the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before Yahweh.Numbers 15:16 · וְלַגֵּ֖רOne law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.’”Numbers 15:26 · וְלַגֵּ֖רand all the congregation of the children of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.Numbers 15:29 · וְלַגֵּ֖רYou shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.Numbers 15:30 · הַגֵּ֔ר“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.Numbers 19:10 · וְלַגֵּ֛רHe who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the evening: and it shall be to the children of Israel, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.Numbers 35:15 · וְלַגֵּ֤רFor the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the foreigner living among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that everyone who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.Deuteronomy 1:16 · גֵּרֽוֹ׃I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.Deuteronomy 5:14 · וְגֵֽרְךָ֙but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.Deuteronomy 10:18 · גֵּ֔רHe does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.Deuteronomy 10:19 · הַגֵּ֑ר · גֵרִ֥יםTherefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.Deuteronomy 14:21 · לַגֵּ֨רYou shall not eat of anything that dies of itself: you may give it to the foreigner living among you who is within your gates, that he may eat it; or you may sell it to a foreigner: for you are a holy people to Yahweh your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.Deuteronomy 14:29 · וְ֠הַגֵּרand the Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.Deuteronomy 16:11 · וְהַגֵּ֛רand you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are in the midst of you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.Deuteronomy 16:14 · וְהַגֵּ֛רand you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your male servant, and your female servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.Deuteronomy 23:7 · גֵ֖רYou shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.Deuteronomy 24:14 · מִגֵּרְךָ֛You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:Deuteronomy 24:17 · גֵּ֣רYou shall not deprive the foreigner, or the fatherless of justice, nor take a widow’s clothing in pledge;Deuteronomy 24:19 · לַגֵּ֛רWhen you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.Deuteronomy 24:20 · לַגֵּ֛רWhen you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 24:21 · לַגֵּ֛רWhen you harvest your vineyard, you shall not glean it after yourselves: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.Deuteronomy 26:11 · וְהַגֵּ֖רYou shall rejoice in all the good which Yahweh your God has given to you, and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the foreigner who is in the midst of you.Deuteronomy 26:12 · לַגֵּר֙When you have made an end of tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.Deuteronomy 26:13 · וְלַגֵּר֙You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:Deuteronomy 27:19 · גֵּר־‘Cursed is he who the foreigner, fatherless, and widow of justice.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’Deuteronomy 28:43 · הַגֵּר֙The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.Deuteronomy 29:11 · וְגֵ֣רְךָ֔your little ones, your wives, and your foreigner who is in the midst of your camps, from the one who cuts your wood to the one who draws your water;Deuteronomy 31:12 · וְגֵרְךָ֖Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;Joshua 8:33 · כַּגֵּר֙All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.Joshua 8:35 · וְהַגֵּ֖רThere was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.Joshua 20:9 · וְלַגֵּר֙These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the congregation.2 Samuel 1:13 · גֵּ֥רDavid said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.”1 Chronicles 22:2 · הַגֵּרִ֔יםDavid gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.1 Chronicles 29:15 · גֵרִ֨יםFor we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.2 Chronicles 2:17 · הַגֵּירִים֙Solomon numbered all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the numbering with which David his father had numbered them; and they were found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.2 Chronicles 30:25 · וְהַגֵּרִ֗יםAll the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.Job 31:32 · גֵּ֑ר(the foreigner has not lodged in the street, but I have opened my doors to the traveler);Psalm 39:12 · גֵ֣ר“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.Psalm 94:6 · וְגֵ֣רThey kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.Psalm 119:19 · גֵּ֣רI am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.Psalm 146:9 · גֵּרִ֗יםYahweh preserves the foreigners. He upholds the fatherless and widow, but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.Isaiah 14:1 · הַגֵּר֙For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.Jeremiah 7:6 · גֵּ֣רif you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:Jeremiah 14:8 · כְּגֵ֣רYou hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?Jeremiah 22:3 · וְגֵר֩Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.Zechariah 7:10 · גֵּ֥רDon’t oppress the widow, nor the fatherless, the foreigner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.’Malachi 3:5 · גֵר֙I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.