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גּוּר gur

“to sojourn” · 97 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 9 timesExodus: 4 timesLeviticus: 11 timesNumbers: 8 timesDeuteronomy: 5 timesJoshua: onceJudges: 6 timesRuth: once1 Samuel: once2 Samuel: once1 Kings: once2 Kings: 3 times1 Chronicles: once2 Chronicles: onceEzra: onceNehemiah: 0 timesEsther: 0 timesJob: 4 timesPsalms: 11 timesProverbs: 0 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 10 timesJeremiah: 13 timesLamentations: onceEzekiel: 3 timesDaniel: 0 timesHosea: onceJoel: 0 timesAmos: 0 timesObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 0 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 0 timesMalachi: 0 timesMatthew: 0 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 0 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 0 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: 0 timesGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: 0 timesPhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: 0 timesPhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 0 timesJames: 0 times1 Peter: 0 times2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 0 times2 John: 0 times3 John: 0 timesJude: 0 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “residing” 10
  • “living” 8
  • “reside” 6
  • “dwelling” 5
  • “stay” 4
  • other ways 64
As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis9
Exodus4
Leviticus11
Numbers8
Deuteronomy5
Joshua1
Judges6
Ruth1
1 Samuel1
2 Samuel1
1 Kings1
2 Kings3
1 Chronicles1
2 Chronicles1
Ezra1
Job4
Psalms11
Isaiah10
Jeremiah13
Lamentations1
Ezekiel3
Hosea1

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. residing10
  2. living8
  3. reside6
  4. dwelling5
  5. abide4
  6. stay4
  7. settle3
  8. strangers3
  9. afraid2
  10. anyone attacks you2
  11. can dwell with2
  12. conspire2
  13. 39 other ways46
Its meanings, as STEP Bible divides them
  • to sojourn 81
  • to dread 10
  • to quarrel 6

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“residing” 10

  • Genesis 1

    • 21:34 …And Abraham resided in the land of…

  • Exodus 1

    • 12:48 …If a foreigner resides with you and wants…

  • Leviticus 2

    • 19:33 …When a foreigner resides with you in your…
    • 25:45 …them from the foreigners residing among you or their…

  • Numbers 5

    • 15:14 …come if a foreigner residing with you or someone…
    • 15:16 …and to the foreigner residing with you…
    • 15:26 …Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be…
    • 15:29 …Israelite or a foreigner residing among you…
    • 19:10 …and for the foreigner residing among them…

  • Judges 1

    • 17:7 …Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of…
“living” 8

  • Leviticus 6

    • 17:8 …Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a…
    • 17:10 …Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any…
    • 17:12 …nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood…
    • 17:13 …any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down…
    • 19:34 …must treat the foreigner living among you as native…
    • 20:2 …Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives…

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 26:5 …Egypt few in number and lived there and became a…

  • Ezra 1

    • 1:4 …every survivor wherever he lives be assisted by the…
“reside” 6

  • Genesis 1

    • 21:23 …the country in which you reside the same kindness that…

  • Ruth 1

    • 1:1 …and two sons went to reside in the land of…

  • Jeremiah 4

    • 42:15 …to go to Egypt and reside there…
    • 42:22 …you desire to go to reside
    • 44:8 …where you have gone to reside As a result you…
    • 44:14 …Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape…
“dwelling” 5

  • Numbers 1

    • 9:14 …If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to…

  • Psalms 1

    • 120:5 …Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech that I…

  • Jeremiah 1

    • 44:28 …of Judah who went to dwell in the land of…

  • Ezekiel 2

    • 14:7 …Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself…
    • 47:23 …whatever tribe a foreigner dwells you are to assign…
“stay” 4

  • Genesis 3

    • 26:3 Stay in this land as…
    • 32:4 …Your servant Jacob says I have been staying with Laban and have…
    • 35:27 …where Abraham and Isaac had stayed

  • Isaiah 1

    • 16:4 …Let my fugitives stay with you be a…
“abide” 4

  • Psalms 1

    • 15:1 …David O LORD who may abide in Your tent Who…

  • Jeremiah 3

    • 49:18 …dwell there no man will abide there…
    • 49:33 …dwell there no man will abide there…
    • 50:40 …dwell there no man will abide there…
“settle” 3

  • Judges 2

    • 17:8 …of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find…
    • 17:9 …am on my way to settle wherever I can find…

  • Isaiah 1

    • 23:7 …feet have taken her to settle far away…
“strangers” 3

  • 1 Chronicles 1

    • 16:19 …in number few indeed and strangers in the land…

  • Psalms 1

    • 105:12 …in number few indeed and strangers in the land…

  • Isaiah 1

    • 5:17 …in their own pastures and strangers will feed in the…
“lived as foreigners” 2

  • Exodus 1

    • 6:4 …Canaan the land where they lived as foreigners

  • 2 Kings 1

    • 8:2 …she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in…
“who resides” 2

  • Exodus 1

    • 12:49 …native and the foreigner who resides among you…

  • Leviticus 1

    • 16:29 …native or the foreigner who resides among you…
“who lives” 2

  • Leviticus 1

    • 18:26 …born nor the foreigner who lives among you…

  • Judges 1

    • 19:1 …in Israel a Levite who lived in the remote hill…
“terrified” 2

  • Numbers 1

    • 22:3 …and Moab was terrified of the people because…

  • Job 1

    • 41:25 …rises up the mighty are terrified they withdraw before his…
“afraid” 2

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 18:22 …spoken presumptuously Do not be afraid of him…

  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 18:15 …David was very successful he was afraid of him…
“revere him” 2

  • Psalms 2

    • 22:23 …All offspring of Israel revere Him
    • 33:8 …people of the world revere Him
“conspire” 2

  • Psalms 2

    • 56:6 They conspire they lurk they watch…
    • 59:3 …for me Fierce men conspire against me for no…
“live” 2

  • Isaiah 2

    • 11:6 …The wolf will live with the lamb and…
    • 52:4 …went down to Egypt to live then Assyria oppressed them…
“can dwell with” 2

  • Isaiah 2

    • 33:14 …ungodly Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire Who…
    • 33:14 …fire Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames…
“anyone attacks you” 2

  • Isaiah 2

    • 54:15 …If anyone attacks you it is not from…
    • 54:15 …If anyone attacks you it is not from…
“reside there” 2

  • Jeremiah 2

    • 43:2 …not go to Egypt to reside there
    • 44:12 …the land of Egypt to reside there they will meet their…
“while” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 12:10 …Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was…
“as a foreigner” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 19:9 …This one came here as a foreigner and he is already…
“while he was staying” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 20:1 …between Kadesh and Shur While he was staying in Gerar…
“time” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 47:4 …live in the land for a time because there is no…
“any woman staying” 1

  • Exodus 1

    • 3:22 …shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for…
“who stays” 1

  • Leviticus 1

    • 25:6 …hired hand or foreigner who stays with you…
“foreign resident” 1

  • Numbers 1

    • 15:15 …statute both for you and for the foreign resident it is a permanent…
“intimidated” 1

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 1:17 …great alike Do not be intimidated by anyone for judgment…
“residence” 1

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 18:6 …moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes…
“dreaded” 1

  • Deuteronomy 1

    • 32:27 …if I had not dreaded the taunt of the…
“foreigners” 1

  • Joshua 1

    • 20:9 …for all the Israelites and foreigners among them so that…
“did you linger” 1

  • Judges 1

    • 5:17 …the Jordan Dan why did you linger by the ships Asher…
“who was residing” 1

  • Judges 1

    • 19:16 …hill country of Ephraim who was residing in Gibeah the men…
“as foreigners” 1

  • 2 Samuel 1

    • 4:3 …and have lived there as foreigners to this day…
“who has opened her home to me” 1

  • 1 Kings 1

    • 17:20 …tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me by causing her son…
“live as a foreigner” 1

  • 2 Kings 1

    • 8:1 …and your household go and live as a foreigner wherever you can For…
“can” 1

  • 2 Kings 1

    • 8:1 …as a foreigner wherever you can For the LORD has…
“who had settled” 1

  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 15:9 …Ephraim Manasseh and Simeon who had settled among them for great…
Not matched to an English word 1
“should fear” 1

  • Job 1

    • 19:29 then you should fear the sword yourselves because…
“human habitation” 1

  • Job 1

    • 28:4 …Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft…
“can dwell with you” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 5:4 …in wickedness no evil can dwell with You
“me dwell” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 61:4 Let me dwell in Your tent forever…
“dwelt” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 105:23 …Israel entered Egypt Jacob dwelt in the land of…
“stir up” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 140:2 …evil in their hearts and stir up war all day long…
“assails you” 1

  • Isaiah 1

    • 54:15 …not from Me whoever assails you will fall before you…
“wander” 1

  • Jeremiah 1

    • 35:7 …the land where you wander
Not translated: the English carries it without a word 1
“scattered” 1

  • Jeremiah 1

    • 43:5 …the nations to which they had been scattered
“can stay” 1

  • Lamentations 1

    • 4:15 …nations it was said They can stay here no longer…
“who dwell” 1

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 47:22 …and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who…
“fear” 1

  • Hosea 1

    • 10:5 …The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of…

In our notes

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.