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Strong's #1481: guwr (pronounced goor)

a primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid):--abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, X surely.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gûr

1) to sojourn, abide, dwell in, dwell with, remain, inhabit, be a stranger, be continuing, surely

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to sojourn, dwell for a time

1a2) to abide, stay, temporarily dwell

1b) (Hithpolel)

1b1) to seek hospitality with

1b2) to assemble oneself

2) to stir up trouble, strife, quarrel, gather together

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to stir up strife

2a2) to quarrel

2b) (Hithpolel) to excite oneself

3) to dread, fear, stand in awe, be afraid

3a) (Qal)

3a1) to fear, be afraid

3a2) to be in awe, stand in awe

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 98 times:

2 Kings 8:2: "went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years."
1 Chronicles 16:19: "When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers"
2 Chronicles 15:9: "all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers them out of Ephraim and Manasseh,"
Ezra 1:4: "in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help"
Job 19:15: " They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am in their sight."
Job 19:29: " Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments"
Job 28:4: "The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of"
Job 41:25: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves."
Psalms 5:4: "in wickedness: shall evil dwell"
Psalms 15:1: "of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? shall dwell in thy holy"
Psalms 22:23: "ye the seed of Jacob, him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel."
Psalms 33:8: "the LORD: let all the inhabitants stand in awe of"
Psalms 56:6: " They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when my soul."
Psalms 59:3: "they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered me; not for my transgression, nor"
Psalms 61:4: " I will abide in thy tabernacle forever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings."
Psalms 105:12: "but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers"
Psalms 105:23: "also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land"
Psalms 120:5: "Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in of Kedar!"
Psalms 140:2: "mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together"
Isaiah 5:17: "after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers"
Isaiah 11:6: "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down the kid;"
Isaiah 16:4: "Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face"
Isaiah 23:7: "days? her own feet her afar off to sojourn."
Isaiah 33:14: "hath surprised the hypocrites. among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell"
Isaiah 33:14: "with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?"
Isaiah 52:4: "formerly into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause."
Isaiah 54:15: "Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together"
Isaiah 54:15: "Behold, they shall surely gather together, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together"
Isaiah 54:15: "they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together thee shall fall"
Jeremiah 35:7: "in the land where ye be strangers."
Jeremiah 42:15: "your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;"
Jeremiah 42:17: "to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine,"
Jeremiah 42:22: "in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn."
Jeremiah 43:2: "Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:"
Jeremiah 43:5: "from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;"
Jeremiah 44:8: "whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that"
Jeremiah 44:12: "to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall"
Jeremiah 44:14: "which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain,"
Jeremiah 44:28: "that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words"
Jeremiah 49:18: "neither shall a son of man dwell"
Jeremiah 49:33: "there, nor any son of man dwell"
Jeremiah 50:40: "neither shall any son of man dwell"
Lamentations 4:15: "among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn"
Ezekiel 14:7: "of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel,"
Ezekiel 47:22: "that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among shall beget"
Ezekiel 47:23: "that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there him his inheritance,"
Hosea 7:14: "they howled their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel"
Hosea 10:5: "The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Beth-aven: for thereof shall mourn"









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