Sojourning
מָגוֹרStrong’s H4033magur (ma-gur)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Magur is the Hebrew word usually translated “sojournings their”, “sojournings your” and “sojournings my”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
Meaning
- Sojourning place, dwelling-place, sojourningdwelling-place · sojourning, lifetime
How it's translated
- sojournings their 4
- sojournings your 2
- sojournings my 2
- sojournings of 1
- in sojourning-places his 1
- in sojourning-place their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 5
- Psalms 2
- Exodus 1
- Job 1
- Ezekiel 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 28:4And give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave unto Abraham.
- Genesis 36:7For their riches were more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.
- Genesis 37:1And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
- Exodus 6:4And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
- Job 18:19He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
Hebrew dictionary
מָגוֹר magur · sojourning
1) sojourning place, dwelling-place, sojourning 1a) dwelling-place 1b) sojourning, lifetime
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sojourning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SO'JOURNING, participle present
tense Dwelling for a time.
All definitions and other forms of “sojourning”
SO'JOURNING, noun
The act of dwelling in a place for a time; also, the time of abode.
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.