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גּוּר

gurto sojournHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb98 occurrences22 books94 verses

Definition

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)
Traditional renderings: abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, × surely.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders גּוּר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

98 total
  1. Genesis 12:10לָג֣וּר · for a while
    Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while because the famine was severe.
  2. Genesis 19:9לָגוּר֙ · as a foreigner
    “Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
  3. Genesis 20:1וַיָּ֖גָר · While he was staying
    Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
  4. Genesis 21:23גַּ֥רְתָּה · you reside
    Now, therefore, swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or descendants. Show to me and to the country in which you reside the same kindness that I have shown to you.”
  5. Genesis 21:34וַיָּ֧גָר · resided
    And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
  6. Genesis 26:3גּ֚וּר · Stay
    Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
  7. Genesis 32:4גַּ֔רְתִּי · I have been staying
    He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
  8. Genesis 35:27גָּֽר־ · had stayed
    Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
  9. Genesis 47:4לָג֣וּר · for a time
    Then they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live in the land for a time, because there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please allow your servants to settle in the land of Goshen.”
  10. Exodus 3:22וּמִגָּרַ֣ת · and any woman staying
    Every woman shall ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
  11. Exodus 6:4גָּ֥רוּ · they lived as foreigners
    I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land where they lived as foreigners.
  12. Exodus 12:48יָג֨וּר · resides
    If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
  13. Exodus 12:49הַגָּ֥ר · who resides
    The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
  14. Leviticus 16:29הַגָּ֥ר · who resides
    This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—
  15. Leviticus 17:8יָג֣וּר · living
    Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
  16. Leviticus 17:10הַגָּ֣ר · living
    If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.
  17. Leviticus 17:12הַגָּ֥ר · living
    Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’
  18. Leviticus 17:13הַגָּ֣ר · living
    And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.
  19. Leviticus 18:26הַגָּ֥ר · who lives
    But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.
  20. Leviticus 19:33יָג֧וּר · resides
    When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
  21. Leviticus 19:34הַגָּ֣ר · living
    You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
  22. Leviticus 20:2הַגָּ֣ר · living
    “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
  23. Leviticus 25:6הַגָּרִ֖ים · who stays
    Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
  24. Leviticus 25:45הַגָּרִ֤ים · residing
    You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
  25. Numbers 9:14יָג֨וּר · dwelling
    If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
  26. Numbers 15:14יָגוּר֩ · residing
    And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.
  27. Numbers 15:15הַגָּ֑ר
    The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
  28. Numbers 15:16הַגָּ֥ר · residing
    The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
  29. Numbers 15:26הַגָּ֣ר · residing
    Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.
  30. Numbers 15:29הַגָּ֣ר · residing
    You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.
  31. Numbers 19:10הַגָּ֥ר · residing
    The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.
  32. Numbers 22:3וַיָּ֨גָר · was terrified
    …and Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous. Indeed, Moab dreaded the Israelites.
  33. Deuteronomy 1:17תָג֙וּרוּ֙ · be intimidated
    Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I will hear it.”
  34. Deuteronomy 18:6גָּ֣ר · of residence
    Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,
  35. Deuteronomy 18:22תָג֖וּר · be afraid
    When a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the message does not come to pass or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
  36. Deuteronomy 26:5וַיָּ֥גָר · and lived
    …and you are to declare before the LORD your God, “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt few in number and lived there and became a great nation, mighty and numerous.
  37. Deuteronomy 32:27אָג֔וּר · dreaded
    …if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”
  38. Joshua 20:9הַגָּ֣ר
    These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
  39. Judges 5:17יָג֖וּר · did you linger
    Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger by the ships? Asher stayed at the coast and remained in his harbors.
  40. Judges 17:7גָֽר־ · had been residing
    And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
  41. Judges 17:8לָג֖וּר · to settle
    This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
  42. Judges 17:9לָג֖וּר · to settle
    “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
  43. Judges 19:1גָּ֚ר · who lived
    Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
  44. Judges 19:16גָ֖ר · who was residing
    That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
  45. Ruth 1:1לָגוּר֙ · to reside
    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
  46. 1 Samuel 18:15וַיָּ֖גָר · he was afraid
    When Saul saw that David was very successful, he was afraid of him.
  47. 2 Samuel 4:3גָּרִ֔ים · as foreigners
    …because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.
  48. 1 Kings 17:20מִתְגּוֹרֵ֥ר · who has opened her home to me
    Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
  49. 2 Kings 8:1וְג֖וּרִי · and live as a foreigner; תָּג֑וּרִי · you can
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed that a seven-year famine will come to the land.”