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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 BoxDeu 24:20 - “When you beat the olives off your olive tree, you are not to search through the branches [fn]again; that shall be left for the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan, and for the widow.

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“When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you are not to [fn]go over it again; that shall be left for the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan, and the widow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:11 - and you, the Levite, and the stranger H1616 who is among you shall rejoice in all the good which the LORD your God has given you and your household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:12 -

“When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the stranger H1616, to the [fn]orphan, and to the widow, so that they may eat in your [fn]towns and be satisfied.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 26:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:13 - “And you shall say before the LORD your God, ‘I have removed the sacred portion from my house, and have also given it to the Levite, the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan, and the widow, in accordance with all Your commandments which You have commanded me; I have not violated or forgotten any of Your commandments.

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‘Cursed is one who distorts the justice due a stranger H1616, an [fn]orphan, or a 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 who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:11 - your little ones, your wives, and the stranger H1616 who is within your camps, from the one who gathers your firewood to the one who draws your water,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 31:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 31:12 - “Assemble the people, the men, the women, the children, and the stranger H1616 who is in your [fn]town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the LORD your God, and be careful to [fn]follow all the words of this Law.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - And all Israel with their elders, officers, and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger H1616 as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at first to bless the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:35 - There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women, the little ones, and the strangers H1616 who were [fn]living among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the designated cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger H1616 who resides among them, so that whoever [fn]kills a person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:13

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:13 - Then David said to the young man who informed him, “Where are you from?” And he [fn]answered, “I am the son of a stranger H1616, an Amalekite.”

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So David [fn]gave orders to gather the strangers H1616 who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to cut out stones to build the house of God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are strangers H1616 before You, and temporary residents, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

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Solomon counted all the foreigners H1616 who were in the land of Israel, following the [fn]census which his father David had [fn]taken; and 153,600 were found.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 30:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 30:25 - All the assembly of Judah rejoiced, with the priests and the Levites and all the assembly that came from Israel, both the strangers H1616 who came from the land of Israel and those living in Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:32 -

“The stranger H1616 has not spent the night outside,

For I have opened my doors to the [fn]traveler.

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“Hear my prayer, LORD, and listen to my cry for help;

Do not be silent to my tears;

For I am a stranger H1616 with You,

One who lives abroad, like all my fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:6 -

They kill the widow and the stranger H1616

And murder the orphans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 119:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 119:19 -

I am a stranger H1616 on the earth;

Do not hide Your commandments from me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 146:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 146:9 -

The LORD watches over strangers H1616;

He [fn]supports the fatherless and the widow,

But He [fn]thwarts the way of the wicked.

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When the LORD has compassion on Jacob and again chooses Israel, and settles them on their own land, then strangers H1616 will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:6 - if you do not oppress the stranger H1616, the [fn]orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“Hope of Israel,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a stranger H1616 in the land,

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent for the night?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:3 - ‘This is what the LORD says: “Do justice and righteousness, and save one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. And do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger H1616, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers H1616 who reside in Israel, who deserts Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts in front of his face the stumbling block of his wrongdoing, and then comes to the prophet to request something of Me for himself, I the LORD will let Myself answer him Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:7 - “They have treated father and mother with contempt among you. They have oppressed the stranger H1616 in your midst; they have oppressed the orphan and the widow among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:29 - “The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery, and they have oppressed the poor and needy, and have oppressed the stranger H1616 without justice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:22 - “You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the strangers H1616 who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:23 - “And in the tribe with which the stranger H1616 resides, there you shall give him his inheritance,” declares the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 7:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:10 - and do not oppress the widow or the [fn]orphan, the stranger H1616 or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.’

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“Then I will come near to you for judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, those who [fn]oppress the wage earner in his wages or the widow or the [fn]orphan, and those who turn away the stranger H1616 from justice and do not [fn]fear Me,” says the LORD of armies.


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