Sojourner
גֵּרStrong’s H1616ger
Appears in 83 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ger is the Hebrew word usually translated “sojourner”, “sojourners” and “sojourner your”. It appears in 83 verses of the Old Testament.
“And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.”
Meaning
- Sojournera temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights · of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
How it's translated
- a sojourner 20
- the sojourner 13
- and the sojourner 9
- and to the sojourner 7
- sojourners 7
- to the sojourner 6
- and for the sojourner 5
- and sojourner your 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 21
- Leviticus 18
- Exodus 9
- Numbers 9
- Ezekiel 5
- Psalms 4
16 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 15:13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- Genesis 23:4I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Exodus 2:22And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- Exodus 12:19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
- Exodus 12:48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
- Exodus 12:49One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
All 83 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
גֵּר ger · sojourner
1) sojourner 1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights 1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sojourner” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SO'JOURNER, noun
A temporary resident; a stranger or traveler who dwells in a place for a time. We are strangers before thee and sojourners, as all out father were. I Chron. 29.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.