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# sojourn

«sojourn» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **live as a foreigner** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic word

### modern equivalent

live as a foreigner

### part of speech

verb, base form (also a noun)

### meaning for a pupil

To live for a time in a land that is not your own, as a stranger or visitor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sojourn/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today a sojourn is a short, formal stay. In the Torah it can mean living for a long time as a stranger in another land.

### examples

- And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. (Torah GEN.21.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sojourn/#x1)
- They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian. (The Red Fairy Book) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sojourn/#x2)
- And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. (Torah LEV.19.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sojourn/#x3)

### primary record

sojourn

### tests

manual 10.4; corpora 17 (Torah 14, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 32.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.521/)
- [And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.575/)
- [And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1117/)
- [One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.360/)
- [And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.575/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sojourn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/sojourn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.