Strong's Hebrew · H1616
H1616 gêr
גֵּר
gare
alien, sojourner, stranger.
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gêr appears 92 times in Scripture, including Genesis 15:13 and Exodus 2:22. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
Derivation
or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);
Appears 92 times in Scripture
“When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’””
“Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.”
“And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.””
“For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.”
“You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.”
““I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.””
“The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.””
“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.”
“but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.”
“along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.””
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
