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Lexicon :: Strong's H8453 - tôšāḇ

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תּוֹשָׁב
Transliteration
tôšāḇ
Pronunciation
to-shawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 922d

Strong’s Definitions

תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb, to-shawb'; or תֹּשָׁב tôshâb; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427; a dweller but not outlandish [H5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of H3427] and a temporary inmate [H1616] or mere lodger [H3885]) resident alien:—foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H8453 in the following manner: sojourner (9x), stranger (3x), foreigner (1x), inhabitant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H8453 in the following manner: sojourner (9x), stranger (3x), foreigner (1x), inhabitant (1x).

  1. sojourner, stranger

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb, to-shawb'; or תֹּשָׁב tôshâb; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427; a dweller but not outlandish [H5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of H3427] and a temporary inmate [H1616] or mere lodger [H3885]) resident alien:—foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
STRONGS H8453: Abbreviations
† תּוֺשָׁב noun masculineLeviticus 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; absolute ת׳ Genesis 23:4 + 6 times; construct תּוֺשַׁב Leviticus 22:10; suffix תּוֺשָֽׁבְךָ Leviticus 25:6; plural תּוֺשָׁבִים Leviticus 25:6 + 2 times; construct תּשָׁבֵי 1 Kings 17:1, but read תִּשְׁבֶּה (which see) Greek Version of the LXX Ew Th Hi; — sojourner, apparently of a more temporaty and dependent (Leviticus 22:10; 25:6) kind than the גֵּר (with which it is often joined): || שָׂכִיר Exodus 12:45 (P), Leviticus 22:10 (כֹּהֵן ת׳ a priest's sojourner), Leviticus 25:6, 40 (all H); הַתּוֺשָׁבִים הַגָּרִים עִמָּכֶם Leviticus 25:45 (with participle גָּר also Leviticus 25:6); with עִם, also Leviticus 25:47 (twice in verse) (H); with בְּתוֺךְ Numbers 35:15 (P). Figurative of one enjoying only a temporary tenure, with עִם Genesis 23:4, with י׳ Leviticus 25:23; Psalm 39:13, with לִפְנֵי 1 Chronicles 29:15. — 1 Kings 17:1 see above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:4; 23:4

Exodus

12:45

Leviticus

22:10; 22:10; 22:10; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:23; 25:40; 25:45; 25:45; 25:47

Numbers

35:15

1 Kings

17:1; 17:1

1 Chronicles

29:15

Psalms

39:13

H8453

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8453 matches the Hebrew תּוֹשָׁב (tôšāḇ),
which occurs 14 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a stranger and a sojourner (resident alien) among you; give (sell) me property for a burial place among you so that I may bury my dead [in the proper manner].”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - “No stranger (temporary resident, foreigner) or hired servant shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 -

‘No layman [that is, someone outside of Aaron’s family] is to eat the holy gift [which has been offered to God]; a foreigner residing with the priest or a hired man shall not eat the holy thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - ‘And all of you shall have for food whatever the [untilled] land produces during its Sabbath year; yourself, and your male and female slaves, your hired servant, and the foreigners who reside among you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 -

‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; you are [only] foreigners and temporary residents with Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 -

‘Now if your fellow countryman becomes poor and his hand falters with you [that is, he has trouble repaying you for something], then you are to help and sustain him, [with courtesy and consideration] like [you would] a stranger or a temporary resident [without property], so that he may live among you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - but he is to be with you as a hired man, as if he were a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘Moreover, from the children of the strangers who live as aliens among you, from them you may buy slaves and from their families who are with you, whom they have produced in your land; they may become your possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 -

‘Now if the financial means of a stranger or temporary resident among you become sufficient, and your fellow countryman becomes poor in comparison to him and sells himself to the stranger who is living among you or to the descendants of the stranger’s family,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be a refuge for the Israelites and for the stranger and the resident alien among them; so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may escape there.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 -

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - “For we are [fn]sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope [of remaining].

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 -

“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and listen to my cry;

Do not be silent at my tears;

For I am Your temporary guest,

A sojourner like all my fathers.

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