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Word Study · Strong's H1616 · Hebrew

גֵּר

ger

gare

Strong's 1890 spelling: gêr

properly, a guest

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

Rendered in the KJV as

alien, sojourner, stranger.

  • 92
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 59
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 92 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 59

  • גֵּ֣ר5
  • וְלַגֵּ֖ר5
  • גֵרִ֥ים4
  • הַגֵּר֙4
  • וְהַגֵּ֖ר4
  • וְלַגֵּר֙4
  • לַגֵּ֛ר4
  • וְהַגֵּ֛ר3
  • גֵּ֗ר2
  • גֵּ֥ר2
  • גֵּר־2
  • הַגֵּ֔ר2

and 47 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 28

  • a sojourner16
  • and the sojourner8
  • and to the sojourner7
  • the sojourner7
  • the sojourner[s]6
  • to the sojourner6
  • and for the sojourner5
  • sojourners5
  • and sojourner your4
  • as the sojourner4
  • [am] a sojourner3
  • [are] sojourners2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 15

  • noun · masculine singular22
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular13
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular13
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular11
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular9
  • noun · masculine plural7
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular4
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular4
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular2
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcmsa · 22
  • HC/Rd/Ncmsa · 13
  • HTd/Ncmsa · 13
  • HRd/Ncmsa · 11
  • HC/Td/Ncmsa · 9
  • HNcmpa · 7
  • HC/Ncmsa · 4
  • HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms · 4
  • HR/Ncmsa · 2
  • HTd/Ncmpa · 2
  • HC/R/Td/Ncmpa · 1
  • HC/R/Td/Ncmsa · 1

All 92, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Deuteronomy carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis2 occurrences
Exodus12 occurrences
Leviticus21 occurrences
Numbers11 occurrences
Deuteronomy22 occurrences
Joshua3 occurrences
2 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles2 occurrences
Job1 occurrence
Psalms4 occurrences
Isaiah1 occurrence
Jeremiah3 occurrences
Ezekiel5 occurrences
Zechariah1 occurrence
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).