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גּוּר

gur · to sojourn

Hebrew · Strong's H1481 · Verb · Sounds like: goor · 97 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • to sojourn H1481A 81
  • to dread H1481C 10
  • to quarrel H1481B 6

Strong's dictionary

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 forhostility (as afraid); abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, [idiom] surely.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
גּוּר vb. sojourn
Qal
1. sojourn
2. abide
Hithpol. seek hospitality with
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[גּוּר] vb. stir up strife, quarrel
Qal.
1. stir up strife
2. quarrel
Hithpol. they excite themselves, but unlikely
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
[גּוּר] vb. dread
Qal
1. be afraid of
2. stand in awe of

Every occurrence

  1. Genesis 12:10 לָג֣וּר la.Gur · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was sore in the land.

  2. Genesis 19:9 לָגוּר֙ la.Gur · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And they said, Stand back. And they said, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door.

  3. Genesis 20:1 וַיָּ֖גָר vai.Ya.gor · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.

  4. Genesis 21:23 גַּ֥רְתָּה Gar.tah · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

  5. Genesis 21:34 וַיָּ֧גָר vai.Ya.gor · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

  6. Genesis 26:3 גּ֚וּר gur · A command to you: simple action

    sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

  7. Genesis 32:4 גַּ֔רְתִּי Gar.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye say unto my lord Esau: Thus saith thy servant Jacob, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed until now:

  8. Genesis 35:27 גָּֽר־ gar- · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

  9. Genesis 47:4 לָג֣וּר la.Gur · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    And they said unto Pharaoh, To sojourn in the land are we come; for there is no pasture for thy servants' flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.

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