H1616 גֵּר
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 89 KJV occurrences
גֵּר
gêr · gare
Definition
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
KJV Renderings
alien, sojourner, stranger.
Derivation / Etymology
or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 89)
- Genesis 15:13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
- Exodus 23:9¶ Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:33¶ And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
- Leviticus 25:47¶ And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:
- Numbers 35:15These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.
- Deuteronomy 24:14¶ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land within thy gates:
- Deuteronomy 31:12Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
- Psalms 146:9The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.