גּוּר
gur · sojourn
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1481 · appears 98 times in the Bible
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gur (גּוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sojourn”.
Live in a place as a foreigner, without being from there or having land of one's own. In other senses, be afraid; gather against someone.
How to say it
gur
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To live in a place that is not your own.
- Another word spelled the same: to dread.
- Another word spelled the same: to stir up strife.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To reside as an alien: to live in a place without being from there or having land of one's own, under the protection of the place. From this verb comes גֵּר, “resident alien” (H1616). BDB: to sojourn as a guest; also, by another sense of the root, to fear or to gather against.
- The patriarchs live as aliens Genesis 12:10Genesis 26:3Genesis 47:4
- Going to reside in another land because of famine Ruth 1:1
- The alien who lives in Israel, in the laws Exodus 12:48Leviticus 19:33
- “Who will reside in your tent?” Psalms 15:1
- Being afraid Deuteronomy 18:22Psalms 22:23
Historical and cultural background
The patriarchs live as aliens in Canaan and in Egypt (Genesis 26:3; 47:4), and Ruth begins with a family from Bethlehem that goes “to reside as an alien” in Moab because of the famine (Ruth 1:1). The law commands: “when a resident alien resides with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him” (Leviticus 19:33).
How we translate it
“Reside” 17 times, “reside as aliens” 14, “who resides” 12, “reside as an alien” 11, “resided as an alien” 6, “resides” 6… This edition's glossary sets גור = “reside as an alien”, of the same family as גֵּר = “resident alien”, so that the link is seen (“when a resident alien resides with you”, Leviticus 19:33). With the other sense of the root, “be afraid” 6 (Psalm 22:23).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- reside ×17
- reside as aliens ×14
- who resides ×12
- reside as an alien ×11
- be afraid ×6
- resided as an alien ×6
- resides ×6
- resident aliens ×4
- gather ×3
- afraid ×2
- others ×17
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×9
- Exodus×4
- Leviticus×11
- Numbers×8
- Deuteronomy×5
- Joshua×1
- Judges×6
- Ruth×1
- 1 Samuel×1
- 2 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×1
- 2 Kings×3
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×1
- Ezra×1
- Job×4
- Psalms×11
- Isaiah×10
- Jeremiah×13
- Lamentations×1
- Ezekiel×3
- Hosea×2
- Genesis 12:10
There was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to reside as an alien there, for the famine was severe in the land.
- Genesis 19:9
But they said, “Step aside!” And they said, “This one came to reside as an alien, and he keeps acting as judge! Now we will do worse to you than to them.” And they pressed hard against the man, against Lot, and came near to break the door.
- Genesis 20:1
Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur, and he resided as an alien in Gerar.
- Genesis 21:23
So now, swear to me here by Elohim that you will not deal falsely with me or with my children or with my descendants. As the loyal love that I have shown you, so you will show me and the land in which you have resided as an alien.”
- Genesis 21:34
Abraham resided as an alien in the land of the Philistines many days.
- Genesis 26:3
Reside as an alien in this land, and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
- Genesis 32:4
He commanded them, saying, “Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Thus says your servant Jacob: With Laban I have resided as an alien and stayed until now.
- Genesis 35:27
Jacob came to Isaac his father at Mamre, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens.
- Genesis 47:4
They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside as aliens in the land, for there is no pasture for the flocks that your servants have, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. And now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
- Exodus 3:22
Each woman shall ask of her neighbor and of the woman who resides in her house articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters; and so you shall plunder the Egyptians.”
- Exodus 6:4
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their residence as aliens, in which they resided as aliens.
- Exodus 12:48
If a resident alien resides with you and would keep the Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised; then he may come near to keep it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man shall eat of it.
- Exodus 12:49
There shall be one law for the native and for the resident alien who resides among you.”
- Leviticus 16:29
And this shall be for you a statute forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls and do no work the native or the resident alien who resides among you.
- Leviticus 17:8
And you shall say to them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who offers up a burnt offering or a sacrifice,
- Leviticus 17:10
And any man of the house of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who eats any blood, I will set my face against the person who eats the blood, and I will cut that person off from among their people.
- Leviticus 17:12
Therefore I have said to the sons of Israel: No person among you shall eat blood, and the resident alien who resides among you shall not eat blood.
- Leviticus 17:13
And any man of the sons of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who hunts game, an animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
- Leviticus 18:26
But you shall keep my statutes and my rules, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor the resident alien who resides among you
- Leviticus 19:33
And when a resident alien resides with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
- Leviticus 19:34
As the native among you shall be to you the resident alien who resides with you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt. I am YHWH your Elohim.
- Leviticus 20:2
“And you shall say to the sons of Israel: Any man of the sons of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside in Israel who gives any of his offspring to Molech shall surely be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 25:6
And the Sabbath of the land shall be for you for food: for you and for your male slave and for your female slave and for your hired worker and for your temporary resident, those who reside with you,
- Leviticus 25:45
And also from the sons of the temporary residents who reside with you, from them you may buy, and from their clans that are with you, whom they have fathered in your land; and they may be yours as a possession.
- Numbers 9:14
And if a resident alien resides among you and keeps the Passover to YHWH, according to the statute of the Passover and according to its rule, so he shall keep it; you shall have one statute, both for the resident alien and for the native of the land.’”
- Numbers 15:14
And if a resident alien lives with you, or whoever is among you throughout your generations, and he offers a fire offering of pleasing aroma to YHWH, just as you do, so he shall do.
- Numbers 15:15
As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the resident alien who resides among you, a statute forever throughout your generations: as you are, so shall the resident alien be before YHWH.
- Numbers 15:16
One instruction and one rule shall be for you and for the resident alien who resides with you.’”
- Numbers 15:26
And all the community of the sons of Israel shall be forgiven, and the resident alien who resides among them, for all the people acted by oversight.
- Numbers 15:29
For the native-born among the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them there shall be one instruction for you for the one who acts by oversight.
- Numbers 19:10
And the one who gathers the ash of the cow shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening. And it shall be for the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them a statute forever.
- Numbers 22:3
And Moab was very afraid of the people, because they were many; and Moab dreaded the sons of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 1:17
You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of anyone, for the judgment is Elohim’s. And the case that is too hard for you you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
- Deuteronomy 18:6
And if the Levite comes from one of your gates, from all Israel, where he resides as an alien, and comes with all the desire of his soul to the place that YHWH chooses,
- Deuteronomy 18:22
When the prophet speaks in the name of YHWH and the word does not come about or come true, that is the word that YHWH has not spoken; with arrogance the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.
- Deuteronomy 26:5
And you shall answer and say before YHWH your Elohim, “A wandering Aramean was my father; and he went down to Egypt and lived there as a foreigner, with few men, and there he became a great, mighty, and numerous nation.
- Deuteronomy 32:27
if I did not fear the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misjudge it, lest they say, “Our hand is raised high, and it is not YHWH who has done all this.”’
- Joshua 20:9
These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel and for the resident alien who resides among them, that anyone who mortally strikes a person inadvertently might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands before the community.
- Judges 5:17
Gilead dwelt beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he reside as an alien by the ships? Asher sat at the shore of the seas, and by his inlets he dwelt.
- Judges 17:7
There was a young man from Bethlehem of Judah, of the family of Judah, and he was a Levite, and he was residing as an alien there.
And 58 more times.