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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
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 2 / 2 (Deu 24:20–Mal 3:5)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:20 - When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, H1616 for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 24:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:21 - When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, H1616 for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:11 - And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger H1616 that is among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 - When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, H1616 the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, H1616 to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:19 - Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, H1616 fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:43

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:43 - The stranger H1616 that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger H1616 that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:12 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger H1616 that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, H1616 as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:35 - There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers H1616 that were conversant among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger H1616 that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, H1616 an Amalekite.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 22:2 - And David commanded to gather together the strangers H1616 that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers H1616 before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 - And Solomon numbered all the strangers H1616 that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; and they were found an hundred and fifty thousand and three thousand and six hundred.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:25 - And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers H1616 that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 - The stranger H1616 did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger H1616 with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 94:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 - They slay the widow and the stranger, H1616 and murder the fatherless.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 - I am a stranger H1616 in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 - The LORD preserveth the strangers; H1616 he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 - For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers H1616 shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - If ye oppress not the stranger, H1616 the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 - O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger H1616 in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, H1616 the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger H1616 that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7 - In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: H1616 in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29 - The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger H1616 wrongfully.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers H1616 that sojourn among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:23 - And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger H1616 sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, H1616 nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 3:5 - And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger H1616 from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

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