Sojourn
שִׁיבָהStrong’s H7871shivah (shi-vah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shivah is the Hebrew word usually translated “dwelling his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.”
Meaning
- Sojourn
How it's translated
- in dwelling his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׁיבָה shivah · sojourn
sojourn
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sojourn” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SOJOURN, verb intransitive
so'jurn. To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident, or as a stranger, not considering the place as his permanent habitation. So Abram sojourned in Egypt.
All definitions and other forms of “sojourn”
SO'JOURN, noun
A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
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.