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גֵּר
gêr · Hebrew · Strong's H1616 · 92 occurrences
The KJV renders 6 different Hebrew and Greek words as “stranger”
What it means
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);
How the KJV renders it
alien, sojourner, stranger
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“stranger”
also renders epidēméō (G1927), allogenḗs (G241), parepídēmos (G3927), pároikos (G3941), nokrîy (H5237)
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Where it appears
92 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 22:2 · HTd/Ncmpa
David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.
1 Chronicles 29:15 · HNcmpa
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
2 Chronicles 2:17 · HTd/Ncmpa
Solomon counted all the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, after the census with which David his father had counted them; and they found one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.
2 Chronicles 30:25 · HC/Td/Ncmpa
All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
2 Samuel 1:13 · HNcmsa
David said to the young man who told him, “Where are you from?” He answered, “I am the son of a foreigner, an Amalekite.”
Deuteronomy 1:16 · HNcmsc/Sp3ms
I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear cases between your brothers and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the foreigner who is living with him.
Deuteronomy 5:14 HC/Ncmsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 10:18 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 10:19 HNcmpaDeuteronomy 14:21 HRd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 14:29 HC/Td/NcmsaDeuteronomy 16:11 HC/Td/NcmsaDeuteronomy 16:14 HC/Td/NcmsaDeuteronomy 23:7 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 24:14 HR/Ncmsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 24:17 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 24:19 HRd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 24:20 HRd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 24:21 HRd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 26:11 HC/Td/NcmsaDeuteronomy 26:12 HRd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 26:13 HC/Rd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 27:19 HNcmsaDeuteronomy 28:43 HTd/NcmsaDeuteronomy 29:11 HC/Ncmsc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 31:12 HC/Ncmsc/Sp2msExodus 2:22 HNcmsaExodus 12:19 HRd/NcmsaExodus 12:48 HNcmsaExodus 12:49 HC/Rd/NcmsaExodus 18:3 HNcmsaExodus 20:10 HC/Ncmsc/Sp2msExodus 22:21 HC/NcmsaExodus 23:9 HC/NcmsaExodus 23:12 HC/Td/NcmsaEzekiel 14:7 HC/R/Td/NcmsaEzekiel 22:7 HRd/NcmsaEzekiel 22:29 HTd/NcmsaEzekiel 47:22 HC/R/Td/NcmpaEzekiel 47:23 HTd/NcmsaGenesis 15:13 HNcmsaGenesis 23:4 HNcmsaIsaiah 14:1 HTd/NcmsaJeremiah 7:6 HNcmsaJeremiah 14:8 HR/NcmsaJeremiah 22:3 HC/NcmsaJob 31:32 HNcmsaJoshua 8:33 HRd/NcmsaJoshua 8:35 HC/Td/NcmsaJoshua 20:9 HC/Rd/NcmsaLeviticus 16:29 HC/Td/NcmsaLeviticus 17:8 HTd/NcmsaLeviticus 17:10 HTd/NcmsaLeviticus 17:12 HC/Td/NcmsaLeviticus 17:13 HTd/NcmsaLeviticus 17:15 HC/Rd/NcmsaLeviticus 18:26 HC/Td/NcmsaLeviticus 19:10 HC/Rd/NcmsaLeviticus 19:33 HNcmsaLeviticus 19:34 HNcmpa
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.