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Lexicon :: Strong's H1481 - gûr

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גּוּר
Transliteration
gûr
Pronunciation
goor
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 330,332

Strong’s Definitions

גּוּר gûwr, 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, × surely.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 98x

The KJV translates Strong's H1481 in the following manner: sojourn (58x), dwell (12x), afraid (6x), stranger (6x), gather together (4x), fear (3x), abide (2x), assemble (1x), stand in awe (1x), gathered (1x), inhabitant (1x), remain (1x), sojourners (1x), surely (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 98x
The KJV translates Strong's H1481 in the following manner: sojourn (58x), dwell (12x), afraid (6x), stranger (6x), gather together (4x), fear (3x), abide (2x), assemble (1x), stand in awe (1x), gathered (1x), inhabitant (1x), remain (1x), sojourners (1x), surely (1x).
  1. to sojourn, abide, dwell in, dwell with, remain, inhabit, be a stranger, be continuing, surely

    1. (Qal)

      1. to sojourn, dwell for a time

      2. to abide, stay, temporarily dwell

    2. (Hithpolel)

      1. to seek hospitality with

      2. to assemble oneself

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

    1. (Qal)

      1. to stir up strife

      2. to quarrel

    2. (Hithpolel) to excite oneself

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

    1. (Qal)

      1. to fear, be afraid

      2. to be in awe, stand in awe

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גּוּר gûwr, 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, × surely.
STRONGS H1481: Abbreviations
† I. גּוּר verb sojourn (compare Arabic جَارَ turn aside tarry, see especially III. IV. VIII. X; Aramaic dxg Eth. in derivatives) —
Qal Perfect גָּר Genesis 35:27 + 3 times, וְגָר consecutive Isaiah 11:6; גַּרְתָּה Genesis 21:23; גַּרְתִּי Genesis 32:5 [Genesis 32:4; Psalm 120:5; גָּרוּ Exodus 6:4; Imperfect יָגוּר Exodus 12:48 + 12 times, וַיָּ֫גָר Genesis 20:1 + 2 times; suffix יְגֻרְךָ Psalm 5:5; 3rd person feminine singular וַתָּ֫גָר 2 Kings 8:2; 2nd person feminine singular תָּגוּרִי 2 Kings 8:1; cohortative אָגוּ֑רָה Psalm 61:5 יָגוּרוּ Isaiah 16:4; Imperative גּוּר Genesis 26:3, גּוּ֫רִי 2 Kings 8:1; Infinitive construct גּוּר Genesis 12:10 + 17 times; Participle גָּר Deuteronomy 18:6; Judges 17:7 + 17 times; feminine construct גָּרַת Exodus 3:22; plural גָּרִים Leviticus 25:6 + 8 times; construct גָּרֵי Job 19:15; —
1. sojourn, dwell for a (definite or indefinite) time, dwell as a new-comer (compare גֵּר) without original rights, see especially Genesis 19:9 (J) Deuteronomy 18:6 & compare Judges 17:7, 8, 9; Judges 19:1; also Genesis 12:10; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 21:23, 34; Gen 32:5 [Genesis 32:4]; Genesis 47:4 (all J E); of partriarchs in Canaan Genesis 26:3 (J) Genesis 35:27; Exodus 6:4 (both P) compare Psalm 105:12 = 1 Chronicles 16:19; Judges 19:16; 2 Samuel 4:3; 2 Kings 8:1 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 8:2 (seven years) Isaiah 16:4; Ruth 1:1; Ezra 1:4 (in exile); compare further Exodus 3:22 (E) גָּרַת בַּיִת of a woman in another's house as lodger or guest (see Di), גָּרֵי בַיִת Job 19:15; so (poetry) of worshipper in Yahweh's house Psalm 15:1; Psalm 61:5 compare Isaiah 33:14 (twice in verse); figurative of evil לֹא יְגָֻֽרְךָ רָ֑ע Psalm 5:5 evil cannot be a guest of thine (Che; followed by accusative, as in Arabic جاوره III); particulary of the גֵּר (which see) in Israel Exodus 12:48, 49; Leviticus 16:29 (all P) 17: 8; Leviticus 17:10, 12, 13; Leviticus 18:26; Leviticus 19:33, 34; Leviticus 20:2; Leviticus 25:6, 45 (all H) Numbers 9:14; Numbers 15:14, 15, 16, 26, 29; Numbers 19:10; Joshua 20:9 (all P) Ezekiel 14:7; Ezekiel 47:22, 23; of Ephraim and Manasseh sojourning with Judah and Benjamin 2 Chronicles 15:9; of Rechabites sojourning in Judah Jeremiah 35:7; of Israelites sojourning in Egypt Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 52:4; Psalm 105:23; so of Judah, to escape from under Babylonian power Jeremiah 42:15, 17, 22; Jeremiah 43:2; Jeremiah 44:8, 12, 14, 28.
2. abide, nearly or quite = dwell Jeremiah 43:5 compare Lamentations 4:15; Jeremiah 49:18, 33; Jeremiah 50:40, also Job 28:4; of wolf dwelling with lamb Isaiah 11:6; stay (inactive) Judges 5:17; — in Isaiah 5:17 read perhaps, for גָּרִים, גְּדָיִם or כָּרִים compare Greek Version of the LXX Lo Ew Di & Che critical note (> Stu גֵּרִים)
Hithpol. Participle מִתְגּוֺרֵר 1 Kings 17:20 seek hospitality with, followed by עִם (compareArabic x); יִתְגּוֺרָ֖רוּ Hosea 7:14 is dubious (compare II. גור below); AE Ki Thes Wü AV RV they assemble themselves, but text probably error, see גדד.

† II. [גּוּר] verb stir up strife, quarrel (compare H1624 גרה) — so Ew Che Di RVm (Isaiah 54:15); gather together Ges De Br compare Targum Vulgate, so AV RV; —
Qal. Perfect גָּר Isaiah 54:15; Imperfect יָגוּר Isaiah 54:15, יָגוּרוּ Psalm 56:7; Psalm 59:4; Psalm 140:3 (on all compare below); Infinitive absolute גּוֺר Isaiah 54:15; —
1. stir up strife, absolute גּוֺר יָגוּר Isaiah 54:14; compare Psalm 56:7 (but AE Che read יָגוֺדּוּ attack, see גדד); followed by עַל־ Psalm 59:4 (but Che id.; compare Psalm 94:21, which however Ol would emend by Psalm 56:7; Psalm 59:4); followed by accusative מִלְחָמוֺת Psalm 140:3 (Hup Che read יְגָרוּ Pi. Imperfect of גרה)
2. quarrel, followed by אֶת־ with Isaiah 54:15. Here also
Hithpol. Imperfect Hosea 7:14 יִתְגּוֺרָ֖רוּ (compare I. גור), according to Ew, they excite themselves, but unlikely; see גדד.

† III. [גּוּר] verb dread (compare יָגֹר) —
Qal Imperfect וַיָּגָר Numbers 22:3; 1 Samuel 18:15; 2nd person masculine singular תָּגוּר Deuteronomy 18:22; אָגוּר Deuteronomy 32:27; plural יָגוּרוּ Psalm 33:8; Job 41:17 + Hosea 10:5, תָּגוּרוּ Deuteronomy 1:17; Imperative גּוּרוּ Psalm 22:24; Job 19:29; —
1. be afraid of, followed by מִפְּנֵי Numbers 22:3; Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Samuel 18:15, מִפְּנֵי לָכֶם גּוּרו Job 19:29; with מִן Job 41:17; Deuteronomy 18:22; with accusative Deuteronomy 32:27 (poetry) Hosea 10:5 read probably ינודו lament (|| אבל, used with לְ e.g. Nahum 3:7; Jeremiah 15:5 and elsewhere; compare Che).
2. stand in awe of, followed by מִן Psalm 22:24; Psalm 33:8 (יָרֵא).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:10; 12:10; 19:9; 20:1; 20:1; 21:23; 21:23; 21:34; 26:3; 26:3; 32:4; 32:4; 35:27; 35:27; 47:4

Exodus

3:22; 3:22; 6:4; 6:4; 12:48; 12:48; 12:49

Leviticus

16:29; 17:10; 17:12; 17:13; 18:26; 19:33; 19:34; 20:2; 25:6; 25:6; 25:45

Numbers

9:14; 15:14; 15:15; 15:16; 15:26; 15:29; 19:10; 22:3; 22:3

Deuteronomy

1:17; 1:17; 18:6; 18:6; 18:22; 18:22; 26:5; 32:27; 32:27

Joshua

20:9

Judges

5:17; 17:7; 17:7; 17:8; 17:9; 19:1; 19:16

Ruth

1:1

1 Samuel

18:15; 18:15

2 Samuel

4:3

1 Kings

17:20

2 Kings

8:1; 8:1; 8:1; 8:2; 8:2

1 Chronicles

16:19

2 Chronicles

15:9

Ezra

1:4

Job

19:15; 19:15; 19:29; 19:29; 28:4; 41:17; 41:17

Psalms

5:5; 5:5; 15:1; 22:24; 22:24; 33:8; 33:8; 56:7; 56:7; 56:7; 59:4; 59:4; 59:4; 61:5; 61:5; 94:21; 105:12; 105:23; 120:5; 140:3; 140:3

Isaiah

5:17; 11:6; 11:6; 16:4; 16:4; 33:14; 52:4; 54:14; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15; 54:15

Jeremiah

15:5; 35:7; 42:15; 42:17; 42:22; 43:2; 43:5; 44:8; 44:12; 44:14; 44:28; 49:18; 49:33; 50:40

Lamentations

4:15

Ezekiel

14:7; 47:22; 47:23

Hosea

7:14; 7:14; 10:5; 10:5

Nahum

3:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1481 matches the Hebrew גּוּר (gûr),
which occurs 98 times in 94 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:10–2Ki 8:2)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:10 -

Now there was a famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to live H1481 there for H1481 a H1481 time H1481, because the famine was severe in the land.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:9 - But they said, “Get out of the way!” They also said, “This one came in [fn]as a foreigner H1481, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them!” So they pressed hard against [fn]Lot and moved forward to break the door.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 -

Now Abraham journeyed from there toward the land of the [fn]Negev, and [fn]settled between Kadesh and Shur; then he lived H1481 for H1481 a H1481 time H1481 in Gerar.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:23 - so now, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my descendants, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have resided H1481.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:34 - And Abraham resided H1481 in the land of the Philistines for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:3 - “Live H1481 for H1481 a H1481 time H1481 in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your [fn]descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:4 - He commanded them, saying, “This is what you shall say to my lord Esau: ‘Your servant Jacob says the following: “I have resided H1481 with Laban, and stayed until now;
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:27 -

Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided H1481.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:4 - They also said to Pharaoh, “We have come to reside H1481 in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:22 - “But every woman shall ask her neighbor and the woman who lives H1481 in her house for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians.”
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 6:4 - “I also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the [fn]land in which they lived H1481 as H1481 strangers H1481.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - “But if a stranger resides H1481 with you and [fn]celebrates the Passover to the LORD, all of his males are to be circumcised, and then he shall come near to [fn]celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised male may eat it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:49 - [fn]The same law shall [fn]apply to the native as to the stranger who resides H1481 among you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 16:29 -

This shall be a permanent statute for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall humble [fn]yourselves and not do any work, whether the native, or the stranger who resides H1481 among you;

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:8 -

“Then you shall say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside H1481 among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:10 -

‘And anyone from the house of Israel, or from the strangers who reside H1481 among them, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats the blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:12 - “Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any stranger who resides H1481 among you eat blood.’
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 17:13 - “So when anyone from the sons of Israel, or from the strangers who reside H1481 among them, [fn]while hunting catches an animal or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dirt.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:26 - ‘But as for you, you are to keep My statutes and My judgments, and you shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native, nor the stranger who resides H1481 among you
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:33 -

‘When a stranger resides H1481 with you in your land, you shall not [fn]do him wrong.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:34 - ‘The stranger who resides H1481 with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:2 - “You shall also say to the sons of Israel:

‘Anyone from the sons of Israel or from the strangers residing H1481 in Israel who gives any of his [fn]children to Molech, shall certainly be put to death; the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - All of you shall have the Sabbath produce of the land as food; for yourself, your male and female slaves, and your hired worker and your foreign resident, those who live H1481 as H1481 strangers H1481 among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - ‘You may also acquire them from the sons of the foreign residents who reside H1481 among you, and from their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:14 - ‘And if a stranger resides H1481 among you and [fn]celebrates the Passover to the LORD, according to the statute of the Passover and its ordinance, so he shall celebrate it; you shall have [fn]the same statute, both for the stranger and for the native of the land.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:14 - ‘Now if a stranger resides H1481 among you, or one who may be among you throughout your generations, and he wants to make an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the LORD, just as you do so shall he do.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:15 - As for the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who resides H1481 among you, a permanent statute throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:16 - ‘There is to be one law and one ordinance for you and for the stranger who resides H1481 with you.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:26 - ‘So all the congregation of the sons of Israel will be forgiven, as well as the stranger who resides H1481 among them, for guilt was attributed to all the people through an unintentional wrong.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:29 - ‘You shall have one law for the native among the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides H1481 among them, for one who does anything wrong unintentionally.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:10 - ‘And the one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening; and it shall be a permanent statute for the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides H1481 among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:3 - So Moab was in great fear H1481 because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You are not to [fn]show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You are not to be afraid H1481 of any person, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 -

“Now if a Levite comes from any of your [fn]towns throughout Israel where he resides H1481, and he comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:22 - “When the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, and the thing does not happen or come true, that is the thing which the LORD has not spoken. The prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you are not to be afraid H1481 of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall respond and say before the LORD your God, ‘My father was a [fn]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and [fn]resided H1481 there, few in number; but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:27 -

Had I not feared H1481 the provocation by the enemy,

That their adversaries would misjudge,

That they would say, “Our hand is [fn]triumphant,

And the LORD has not performed all this.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 20:9 - These were the designated cities for all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who resides H1481 among them, so that whoever [fn]kills a person unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:17 -

“Gilead [fn]remained across the Jordan;

And why did Dan stay H1481 on ships?

Asher sat at the seashore,

And [fn]remained by its landings.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:7 -

Now there was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he was [fn]staying H1481 there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:8 - Then the man left the city, Bethlehem in Judah, to [fn]stay H1481 wherever he would find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:9 - Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to [fn]stay H1481 wherever I may find a place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:1 -

Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite [fn]staying H1481 in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 -

Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was [fn]staying H1481 in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjaminites.

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:1 -

Now it came about in the days when the judges [fn]governed, that there was a famine in the land. And a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to reside H1481 in the land of Moab [fn]with his wife and his two sons.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:15 - When Saul saw that he was [fn]very successful, he was afraid H1481 of him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:3 - and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as strangers H1481 until this day).
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:20 - And he called to the LORD and said, “LORD, my God, have You also brought catastrophe upon the widow with whom I am [fn]staying H1481, by causing her son to die?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:1 -

Now Elisha spoke to the woman whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go [fn]with your household, and live H1481 wherever you can live H1481; for the LORD has called for a famine, and it will indeed come on the land for seven years.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:2 - So the woman arose and acted in accordance with the word of the man of God: she went with her household and resided H1481 in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

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