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Lexicon :: Strong's H1616 - gār

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גָּר
Transliteration
gār
Pronunciation
gare
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 330a

Strong’s Definitions

גֵּר gêr, gare; or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner:—alien, sojourner, stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x

The KJV translates Strong's H1616 in the following manner: stranger (87x), alien (1x), sojourner (1x), stranger (with H376) (1x), stranger (with H4480) (1x), strangers (with H582) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 92x
The KJV translates Strong's H1616 in the following manner: stranger (87x), alien (1x), sojourner (1x), stranger (with H376) (1x), stranger (with H4480) (1x), strangers (with H582) (1x).

  1. sojourner

    1. a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights

    2. of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גֵּר gêr, gare; or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner:—alien, sojourner, stranger.
STRONGS H1616: Abbreviations
גֵּר noun masculineExodus 12:48 sojourner (Arabic جَارً, Ethiopic ግዩር፡ ጎር፡ Aramaic Ruvwg, גִּיּוֺר, prostelyte, גַּיֵּר proselytize, Phoenician גר in proper name, & plural גרם) — גֵּר Genesis 15:16 + 74 times; suffix גֵּרְךָ Exodus 20:10 + 4 times, גֵּרוֺ Deuteronomy 1:16; plural גֵּרִים Exodus 22:20 + 9 times, גֵּירִים 2 Chronicles 2:16; —
1. sojourner, temporary dweller, new-comer (no inherited rights), compare Exodus 12:19; Leviticus 24:16; Numbers 15:30; Joshua 8:33 (opposed to homeborn); of Abraham at Hebron Genesis 23:4 (P; || תּוֺשָׁב); Moses in desert Exodus 2:22 (J) Exodus 18:3 (E; here explanation of name Gershom, Moses' son); as claiming hospitality Job 31:32; perhaps in above cases, and certainly in general, with technical sense; figurative of Yahweh Jeremiah 14:8; of Israel in Egypt Genesis 15:13; Exodus 22:20; Exodus 23:9 (all J E) Leviticus 19:34 (H) Deuteronomy 10:19; Deuteronomy 23:8; גֵּרִים with Yahweh Leviticus 25:23 (H) 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 39:13 (in all || תּוֺשָׁב) compare Psalm 119:19.
2. usually of גֵּרים in Israel 2 Samuel 1:13 (Amalekite) compare Joshua 8:33, 35 (E) Joshua 20:9 (P) Isaiah 14:1; dwellers in Israel with certain conceded, not inherited right (compare RSOTJC 434; 2nd ed. 342. n.; K 42; Sem 75 f. StaGeschichte.i.400). The גֵּר is to share in Sabbath rest Exodus 20:10; Exodus 23:12 (both J E) Deuteronomy 5:14; otherwise he is have like obligations with Israel Exodus 12:19, 48, 49; Leviticus 16:29 (all P) Leviticus 17:8, 10, 12, 13, 15; Leviticus 18:26; Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 22:18; Leviticus 24:16, 22 (all H) Numbers 9:14 (twice in verse); Numbers 15:14, 15 (twice in verse); Numbers 15:16, 26, 29, 30; Numbers 19:10; Numbers 35:15 (all P) Ezekiel 14:7; similar rights Deuteronomy 1:16; Ezekiel 47:22, 23; and like privileges Deuteronomy 16:11, 14; Deuteronomy 26:11; Deuteronomy 29:10; Deuteronomy 31:12 compare 2 Chronicles 30:25; very rarely any distinction made, in obligation Leviticus 25:47 (3 times in verse) (H), in permissible food Deuteronomy 14:21; in future success Deuteronomy 28:43; kindness to גֵּר frequently enjoined: Leviticus 19:10 (|| עָנִי), Leviticus 23:22 (|| id.) Leviticus 19:34 (all H); Deuteronomy 10:18, 19; Deuteronomy 14:29; Deuteronomy 24:19, 20, 21; Deuteronomy 26:12, 13 (all || יָתוֺם וְאַלְמָנָה); oppression prohibited Leviticus 19:33 (H) Deuteronomy 24:14; Exodus 22:20; Exodus 23:9 (twice in verse) (JE) Deuteronomy 24:17; Deuteronomy 27:19; Jeremiah 7:6; Jeremiah 22:3; Zechariah 7:10 (these eight || יָתוֺם וְאַלְמָנָה); object of care to י׳ Psalm 146:9 (|| id.); charge that גֵּר has been oppressed Ezekiel 22:7; Malachi 3:5 (both || id.); also Ezekiel 22:29 (|| עָנִי וְאֶבְיוֺן), Psalm 94:6; compare also command that a poor brother be treated like גֵּר i.e. kindly, Leviticus 25:35 (H). Latest conception somewhat different: גֵּר 1 Chronicles 22:2; 2 Chronicles 2:16 (הַגֵּירִים) gathered for hard service; yet compare 2 Chronicles 30:25. (Often with verbal cognate Exodus 12:48, 49; Leviticus 16:29; Leviticus 17:8, 10, 12, 13; Leviticus 18:26; Leviticus 19:33; Leviticus 20:2; Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:14, 15, 16, 26, 29; Numbers 19:10; Joshua 20:9; Ezekiel 47:22, 23; oft || תּוֺשָׁב Genesis 23:4; Leviticus 25:23, 35, 47; 1 Chronicles 29:15; Psalm 39:13).

† [גֵּיר] noun masculine 2 Chronicles 2:16 see גֵּר above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:13; 15:16; 23:4; 23:4

Exodus

2:22; 12:19; 12:19; 12:48; 12:48; 12:48; 12:49; 12:49; 18:3; 20:10; 20:10; 22:20; 22:20; 22:20; 23:9; 23:9; 23:12

Leviticus

16:29; 16:29; 17:8; 17:8; 17:10; 17:10; 17:12; 17:12; 17:13; 17:13; 17:15; 18:26; 18:26; 19:10; 19:33; 19:33; 19:34; 19:34; 20:2; 20:2; 22:18; 23:22; 24:16; 24:16; 24:22; 25:23; 25:23; 25:35; 25:35; 25:47; 25:47

Numbers

9:14; 9:14; 15:14; 15:14; 15:15; 15:15; 15:16; 15:16; 15:26; 15:26; 15:29; 15:29; 15:30; 15:30; 19:10; 19:10; 35:15

Deuteronomy

1:16; 1:16; 5:14; 10:18; 10:19; 10:19; 14:21; 14:29; 16:11; 16:14; 23:8; 24:14; 24:17; 24:19; 24:20; 24:21; 26:11; 26:12; 26:13; 27:19; 28:43; 29:10; 31:12

Joshua

8:33; 8:33; 8:35; 20:9; 20:9

2 Samuel

1:13

1 Chronicles

22:2; 29:15; 29:15

2 Chronicles

2:16; 2:16; 2:16; 30:25; 30:25

Job

31:32

Psalms

39:13; 39:13; 94:6; 119:19; 146:9

Isaiah

14:1

Jeremiah

7:6; 14:8; 22:3

Ezekiel

14:7; 22:7; 22:29; 47:22; 47:22; 47:23; 47:23

Zechariah

7:10

Malachi

3:5

H1616

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Strong's Number H1616 matches the Hebrew גָּר (gār),
which occurs 92 times in 83 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 15:13–Deu 24:19)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:13 - He said to Avram, "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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - "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."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:22 - She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra'el, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Pesach to the LORD, 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:49 - One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:3 - and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moshe said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land".

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:10 - but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 22:21 - "You shall not wrong an alien, neither shall you oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:9 - "You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, seeing you were aliens in the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:12 - "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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 - "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 manner of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:8 - "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Yisra'el, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:10 - "'Any man of the house of Yisra'el, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:12 - Therefore I have said to the children of Yisra'el, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:13 - "'Whatever man there is of the children of Yisra'el, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:15 - "'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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 18:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - You 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;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:10 - You 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 the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:33 - "'If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:34 - The 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 Mitzrayim. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 20:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - "Moreover, you shall tell the children of Yisra'el, 'Anyone of the children of Yisra'el, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Yisra'el, who gives any of his seed to Molekh; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:18 - "Speak to Aharon, and to his sons, and to all the children of Yisra'el, and say to them, 'Whoever is of the house of Yisra'el, or of the foreigners in Yisra'el, who offers his offering, whether it be any of their vows, or any of their freewill offerings, which they offer to the LORD for a burnt offering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:22 - "'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 the LORD your God.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:16 - He who blasphemes the name of the LORD, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:22 - You shall have one kind of law, for the foreigner as well as the native-born: for I am the LORD your God.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - The land shall not be sold in perpetuity; for the land is mine: for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - If your brother has grown poor, and his hand fail with you; then you shall uphold him: as a stranger and a foreigner shall he live with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - If a stranger or foreigner living with you has grown rich, and your brother has grown poor beside him, and sell himself to the stranger or foreigner living with you, or to the stock of the stranger's family;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Pesach to the LORD; according to the statute of the Pesach, 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.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - If 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 sweet savor to the LORD; as you do, so he shall do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the foreigner be before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:16 - One law and one ordinance shall be for you, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:26 - and all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el shall be forgiven, and the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them; for in respect of all the people it was done unwittingly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:29 - You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is home-born among the children of Yisra'el, and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:30 - But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is home-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - He who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be to the children of Yisra'el, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among them, for a statute forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - For the children of Yisra'el, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:16 - I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:14 - but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your man-servant, nor your maid-servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your man-servant and your maid-servant may rest as well as you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:18 - He does execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loves the foreigner, in giving him food and clothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:19 - Therefore love the foreigner; for you were foreigners in the land of Mitzrayim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:21 - You 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 the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 14:29 - and 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 the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:11 - and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-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 the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 16:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 16:14 - and you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your man-servant, and your maid-servant, and the Levite, and the foreigner, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:7 - You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor a Mitzrian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:14 - You 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:17 - You shall not wrest the justice due to the foreigner, or to the fatherless, nor take the widow's clothing to pledge;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:19 - When 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 the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

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