magur · sojourning

What it means

magur (מָגוּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sojourning”.

The place where someone lives as a foreigner, without land of his own; a temporary dwelling.

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. The country where someone lives without being from there, or the years spent that way.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• where they reside ×2
• where you reside as an alien ×2
• life as aliens ×1
• life as an alien ×1
• pilgrimages ×1
• residence as aliens ×1
• where he resided ×1
• where his father had resided as an alien ×1
• where they resided as aliens ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 17:8

  And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you reside as an alien, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession; and I will be their Elohim.”

• Genesis 28:4

  May he give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may possess the land where you reside as an alien, which Elohim gave to Abraham.”

• Genesis 36:7

  For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they resided as aliens could not support them because of their livestock.

• Genesis 37:1

  Jacob dwelt in the land where his father had resided as an alien, in the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 47:9

  Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my life as an alien are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their life as aliens.”

• 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.

• Job 18:19

  He has no son nor descendant among his people, and there is no survivor where he resided.

• Psalms 55:15

  Let death come by surprise upon them; let them go down to Sheol alive, for evils are where they reside, within them.

• Psalms 119:54

  Your statutes have been songs to me in the house of my pilgrimages.

• Ezekiel 20:38

  And I will purge from among you the rebels and those who transgress against me; from the land where they reside as aliens I will bring them out, but into the soil of Israel they will not enter; and you will know that I am YHWH.

And 1 more times.