--- title: גּוּר — sojourn · The Tanakh dictionary description: גּוּר (1481), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 83 times: sojourn. BDB 1906: vb. sojourn. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1481.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [Tanakh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/) / [ג](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1490-2.md)‎ / גּוּר‎ # גּוּר «גּוּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **sojourn** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers. **Used:** 83 times · **Key:** 1481 · **BDB:** גּוּר ### Glosses sojourn (22); sojourns (14); he.will.sojourn (8) ### Meaning (OSHB) sojourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1481/#m1) ### Meaning (BDB 1906) vb. sojourn [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1481/#m2) **The whole BDB entry:** vb. sojourn (cf. Arabic جَارَ turn aside, tarry; v. especially iii. iv. viii. x; Aramaic ܓܳܪ, Ethiopic in der.)— Pf. גָּר Gn 35:27 + 3 times, וְגָר consec. Is 11:6; גַּרְתָּה Gn 21:23; גַּרְתִּי Gn 32:5 ψ 120:5; גָּרוּ Ex 6:4; Impf. יָגוּר Ex 12:48 + 12 times, וַיָּ֫גָר Gn 20:1 + 2 times, sf. יְגֻרְךָ ψ 5:5; 3 fs. וַתָּ֫גָר 2 K 8:2; 2 fs. תָּגוּרִי 2 K 8:1; cohort. אָגוּ֑רָה ψ 61:5, יָגוּרוּ Is 16:4; Imv. גּוּר Gn 26:3, גּוּ֫רִי 2 K 8:1; Inf. cstr. גּוּר Gn 12:10 + 17 times; Pt. גָּר Dt 18:6 Ju 17:7 + 17 times; f. cstr. גָּרַת Ex 3:22; pl. גָּרִים Lv 25:6 + 8 times; cstr. גָּרֵי Jb 19:15;— sojourn, dwell for a (definite or indef.) time, dwell as a new-comer (cf. גֵּר) without original rights, v. especially Gn 19:9 (J) Dt 18:6 \& cf. Ju 17:7, 8, 9; 19:1; also Gn 12:10; 20:1; 21:23, 24; 32:5; 47:4 (all JE); of patriarchs in Canaan Gn 26:3 (J) 35:27 Ex 6:4 (both P) cf. ψ 105:12 = 1 Ch 16:19, Ju 19:16 2 S 4:3 2 K 8:1(×2), 2 (seven years) Is 16:4 Ru 1:1 Ezr 1:4 (in exile); cf. further Ex 3:22 (E) גָּרַת בַּיִת of a woman in another’s house as lodger or guest (v. Di), גָּרֵי בַיִת Jb 19:15; so (poet.) of worshipper in Yahweh’s house ψ 15:1; 61:5 cf. Is 33:14(×2); fig. of evil לֹא יְגֻֽרְךָ רָ֑ע ψ 5:5 evil cannot be a guest of thine (Che; sq. acc., as in Arabic جاوره iii); particularly of the גֵּר (q.v.) in Israel Ex 12:48, 49 Lv 16:29 (all P) 17:8, 10, 12, 13; 18:26; 19:33, 34; 20:2; 25:6, 45 (all H) Nu 9:14; 15:14, 15, 16, 26, 29; 19:10 Jos 20:9 (all P) Ez 14:7; 47:22, 23; of Ephraim and Manasseh sojourning with Judah and Benjamin 2 Ch 15:9; of Rechabites sojourning in Judah Je 35:7; of Israelites sojourning in Egypt Dt 26:5 Is 52:4 ψ 105:23; so of Judah, to escape from under Babylonian power Je 42:15, 17, 22; 43:2; 44:8, 12, 14, 28. abide, nearly or quite = dwell Je 43:5 cf. La 4:15, Je 49:18, 33; 50:40, also Jb 28:4; of wolf dwelling with lamb Is 11:6; stay (inactive) Ju 5:17;—in Is 5:7 read perhaps, for גָּרִים, גְּדָיִם or כָּרִים cf. 𝔊 Lo Ew Di \& Che crit. n. (\> Stu גֵּרִים). Pt. מִתְגּוֹרֵר 1 K 17:20 seek hospitality with, sq. עִם (cf. Arabic x); יִתְגּוֹרָ֖רוּ Ho 7:14 is dub. (cf. II. גור); AE Ki Thes Wü AV RV they assemble themselves, but text prob. error, v. גדד. Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 77 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every English meaning of «גּוּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1481/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames. ### In the verses [Genesis 21:34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.34/) וַיָּ֧גָר אַבְרָהָ֛ם בְּאֶ֥רֶץ פְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים׃פ *Word for word:* and he.sojourned Abraham in the.land of.\[the\].Philistines days many *JPS 1917:* And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. [Psalms 5:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.5.5/) כִּ֤י ׀ לֹ֤א אֵֽל־חָפֵ֘ץ רֶ֥שַׁע ׀ אָ֑תָּה לֹ֖א יְגֻרְךָ֣ רָֽע׃ *Word for word:* (dm) not \[are\].a.God desiring wickedness you not it sojourns.with.you evil *JPS 1917:* For Thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness; evil shall not sojourn with Thee. - ← previous: [גּוּפָה](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1480.md) - next →: [גּוּר](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1482.md) - ↑ back to [ג](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/1490-2.md)