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Lexicon :: Strong's H8453 - tôšāḇ

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תּוֹשָׁב
Transliteration
tôšāḇ
Pronunciation
to-shawb'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 922d

Strong’s Definitions

תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb, to-shawb'; or תֹּשָׁב tôshâb; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427; a dweller but not outlandish [H5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of H3427] and a temporary inmate [H1616] or mere lodger [H3885]) resident alien:—foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's H8453 in the following manner: sojourner (9x), stranger (3x), foreigner (1x), inhabitant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's H8453 in the following manner: sojourner (9x), stranger (3x), foreigner (1x), inhabitant (1x).

  1. sojourner, stranger

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb, to-shawb'; or תֹּשָׁב tôshâb; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427; a dweller but not outlandish [H5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of H3427] and a temporary inmate [H1616] or mere lodger [H3885]) resident alien:—foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
STRONGS H8453: Abbreviations
† תּוֺשָׁב noun masculineLeviticus 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; absolute ת׳ Genesis 23:4 + 6 times; construct תּוֺשַׁב Leviticus 22:10; suffix תּוֺשָֽׁבְךָ Leviticus 25:6; plural תּוֺשָׁבִים Leviticus 25:6 + 2 times; construct תּשָׁבֵי 1 Kings 17:1, but read תִּשְׁבֶּה (which see) Greek Version of the LXX Ew Th Hi; — sojourner, apparently of a more temporaty and dependent (Leviticus 22:10; 25:6) kind than the גֵּר (with which it is often joined): || שָׂכִיר Exodus 12:45 (P), Leviticus 22:10 (כֹּהֵן ת׳ a priest's sojourner), Leviticus 25:6, 40 (all H); הַתּוֺשָׁבִים הַגָּרִים עִמָּכֶם Leviticus 25:45 (with participle גָּר also Leviticus 25:6); with עִם, also Leviticus 25:47 (twice in verse) (H); with בְּתוֺךְ Numbers 35:15 (P). Figurative of one enjoying only a temporary tenure, with עִם Genesis 23:4, with י׳ Leviticus 25:23; Psalm 39:13, with לִפְנֵי 1 Chronicles 29:15. — 1 Kings 17:1 see above.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

23:4; 23:4

Exodus

12:45

Leviticus

22:10; 22:10; 22:10; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:6; 25:23; 25:40; 25:45; 25:45; 25:47

Numbers

35:15

1 Kings

17:1; 17:1

1 Chronicles

29:15

Psalms

39:13

H8453

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8453 matches the Hebrew תּוֹשָׁב (tôšāḇ),
which occurs 14 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:4 - “I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:45

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 22:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:10 - “A lay person shall not eat of a holy thing; no foreign guest of the priest or hired worker shall eat of a holy thing,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:6 - The Sabbath of the land[fn] shall provide food for you, for yourself and for your male and female slaves[fn] and for your hired worker and the sojourner who lives with you,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:23 - “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:35 - “If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:40 - he shall be with you as a hired worker and as a sojourner. He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:45

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:45 - You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 25:47

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:47 - “If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him becomes poor and sells himself to the stranger or sojourner with you or to a member of the stranger’s clan,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 17:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:1 - Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe[fn] in Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 29:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 29:15 - For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 39:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 39:12 - “Hear my prayer, O LORD,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.
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