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Strong's #1616: ger (pronounced gare)

or (fully) geyr (gare); from 1481; properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner:--alien, sojourner, stranger.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ּ / ּ

gêr / gêyr

1) sojourner

1a) a temporary inhabitant, a newcomer lacking inherited rights

1b) of foreigners in Israel, though conceded rights

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H1481



Usage:

This word is used 92 times:

Deuteronomy 10:19: "the stranger: for ye were strangers of Egypt."
Deuteronomy 14:21: "of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or"
Deuteronomy 14:29: "part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates,"
Deuteronomy 16:11: "and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among"
Deuteronomy 16:14: "and thy manservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates."
Deuteronomy 23:7: "an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land."
Deuteronomy 24:14: "and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, of thy strangers of thy strangers that are in thy land"
Deuteronomy 24:17: "Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor a widow's"
Deuteronomy 24:19: "go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD"
Deuteronomy 24:20: "go over the boughs again: for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
Deuteronomy 24:21: "glean it afterward: for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow."
Deuteronomy 26:11: "unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among"
Deuteronomy 26:12: "of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates,"
Deuteronomy 26:13: "and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments"
Deuteronomy 27:19: "Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. the people"
Deuteronomy 28:43: " The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high;"
Deuteronomy 29:11: "Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp,"
Deuteronomy 31:12: "Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that"
Joshua 8:33: "the Levites, which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half"
Joshua 8:35: "the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among"
Joshua 20:9: "for all the children and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth"
2 Samuel 1:13: "him, Whence And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, of a stranger, an Amalekite."
1 Chronicles 22:2: "commanded to gather together the strangers that of Israel; and he set"
1 Chronicles 29:15: "For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our days"
2 Chronicles 2:17: "And Solomon numbered all the strangers the strangers that were in the land"
2 Chronicles 30:25: "that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land"
Job 31:32: " The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors"
Psalms 39:12: "my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all"
Psalms 94:6: "They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless."
Psalms 119:19: "I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments"
Psalms 146:9: "The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless but the way"
Isaiah 14:1: "and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to"
Jeremiah 7:6: "If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed innocent"
Jeremiah 14:8: "of trouble, why as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry"
Jeremiah 22:3: "and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither"
Ezekiel 14:7: "every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger or of the stranger that"
Ezekiel 22:7: "in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow."
Ezekiel 22:29: "the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully."
Ezekiel 47:22: "And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among"
Ezekiel 47:23: "And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there"
Zechariah 7:10: "not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; of you imagine evil"
Malachi 3:5: "the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD"









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