toshav · sojourner, settler

What it means

toshav (תּוֹשָׁב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sojourner, settler”.

Someone who lives in a place without being from there or owning land.

How to say it

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

1. Someone living in a place without being from there.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• temporary resident ×9
• temporary residents ×3
• guest ×1
• residents ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1

• Genesis 23:4

  “I am a resident alien and a guest among you. Give me a possession for a grave among you, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

• Exodus 12:45

  A temporary resident or a hired laborer shall not eat of it.

• Leviticus 22:10

  And no stranger shall eat a holy thing; the temporary resident of a priest and the hired worker shall not eat a holy thing.

• 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 25:23

  And the land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are resident aliens and temporary residents with me.

• Leviticus 25:35

  And if your brother becomes poor and his hand fails with you, you shall support him; as a resident alien and a temporary resident he shall live with you.

• Leviticus 25:40

  He shall be with you as a hired worker, as a temporary resident; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

• 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.

• Leviticus 25:47

  And if the hand of a resident alien or a temporary resident with you prospers, and your brother becomes poor beside him and sells himself to the resident alien, the temporary resident with you, or to a descendant of the clan of a resident alien,

• Numbers 35:15

  For the sons of Israel and for the resident alien and for the temporary resident among them these six cities shall be for refuge, for anyone who strikes down a person inadvertently to flee there.

• 1 Kings 17:1

  Elijah the Tishbite, of the residents of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH lives, the Elohim of Israel, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:15

  For we are resident aliens before you and temporary residents, like all our fathers; like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope.

• Psalms 39:12

  Hear my prayer, YHWH, and to my cry for help give ear; to my tears do not be deaf, for a resident alien I am with you, a temporary resident like all my fathers.

And 1 more times.