Strong's Hebrew · H8453
H8453 tôwshâb
תּוֹשָׁב
to-shawb'
foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
tôwshâb appears 14 times in Scripture, including Genesis 23:4 and Exodus 12:45. 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
resident alien
Derivation
or תֹּשָׁב; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427 (יָשַׁב); a dweller (but not outlandish (H5237 (נׇכְרִי))); especially (as distinguished from a native citizen (active participle of H3427 (יָשַׁב)) and a temporary inmate (H1616 (גֵּר)) or mere lodger (H3885 (לוּן)))
Appears 14 times in Scripture
“You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.”
“A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.”
“If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,”
“Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.”
“The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.”
“Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.”
“No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.”
““I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.””
“Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,”
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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).
