Sojourner
תּוֹשָׁבStrong’s H8453toshav (to-shav)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Toshav is the Hebrew word usually translated “resident alien”, “resident aliens” and “resident alien of”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“I 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.”
Meaning
- Sojourner, stranger
How it's translated
- and a resident alien 3
- a resident alien 3
- and resident aliens 2
- a resident alien of 1
- and to resident alien your 1
- like a resident alien 1
- the resident aliens 1
- and for the resident alien 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 7
- Genesis 1
- Exodus 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:45A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
- Leviticus 22:10There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 25:6And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
- Leviticus 25:23The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
- Leviticus 25:40But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
Hebrew dictionary
תּוֹשָׁב toshav · sojourner
sojourner, stranger
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.