גֵּר

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

Genesis 15:13

• גֵ֣ר׀gernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Genesis 23:4

• גֵּר־ger-noun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:22

• גֵּ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

Exodus 12:19

• בַּגֵּ֖רbagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: in the sojourner

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Exodus 12:48

• גֵּ֗רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

Exodus 12:49

• וְלַגֵּ֖רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

along with her two sons. One son was named Gershom, for Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land.”

Exodus 18:3

• גֵּ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

Exodus 20:10

• וְגֵרְךָ֖֙vegerekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and sojourner your

You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:21

• וְגֵ֥רvegerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a sojourner
• גֵרִ֥יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:9

• וְגֵ֖רvegerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a sojourner
• הַגֵּ֔רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner
• גֵרִ֥יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

Exodus 23:12

• וְהַגֵּֽר׃vehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble yourselves and not do any work—whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you—

Leviticus 16:29

• וְהַגֵּ֖רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

Leviticus 17:8

• הַגֵּ֖רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

If anyone from the house of Israel or a foreigner living among them eats any blood, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from among his people.

Leviticus 17:10

• הַגֵּר֙hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

Therefore I say to the Israelites, ‘None of you may eat blood, nor may any foreigner living among you eat blood.’

Leviticus 17:12

• וְהַגֵּ֛רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

And if any Israelite or foreigner living among them hunts down a wild animal or bird that may be eaten, he must drain its blood and cover it with dirt.

Leviticus 17:13

• הַגֵּר֙hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

And any person, whether native or foreigner, who eats anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will be unclean until evening; then he will be clean.

Leviticus 17:15

• וּבַגֵּ֑רuvagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and among the sojourner

But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you.

Leviticus 18:26

• וְהַגֵּ֖רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:10

• וְלַגֵּר֙velagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the sojourner

When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

Leviticus 19:33

• גֵּ֖רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:34

• הַגֵּ֣ר׀hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner
• גֵרִ֥יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

“Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

Leviticus 20:2

• הַגֵּ֣ר׀hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

“Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

Leviticus 22:18

• הַגֵּ֣רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap all the way to the edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the foreign resident. I am the LORD your God.’”

Leviticus 23:22

• וְלַגֵּר֙velagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the sojourner

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:16

• כַּגֵּר֙kagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: as the sojourner

You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

Leviticus 24:22

• כַּגֵּ֥רkagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: as the sojourner

The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.

Leviticus 25:23

• גֵרִ֧יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

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.

Leviticus 25:35

• גֵּ֧רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

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,

Leviticus 25:47

• גֵּ֤רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner
• לְגֵ֤רlegerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a sojourner
• גֵּֽר׃gernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”

Numbers 9:14

• גֵּ֗רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner
• וְלַגֵּ֖רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do.

Numbers 15:14

• גֵּ֜רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.

Numbers 15:15

• וְלַגֵּ֣רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner
• כַּגֵּ֥רkagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: as the sojourner

The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

Numbers 15:16

• וְלַגֵּ֖רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

Then the whole congregation of Israel and the foreigners residing among them will be forgiven, since it happened to all the people unintentionally.

Numbers 15:26

• וְלַגֵּ֖רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

Numbers 15:29

• וְלַגֵּ֖רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

Numbers 15:30

• הַגֵּ֔רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

The man who has gathered up the ashes of the heifer must also wash his clothes, and he will be ceremonially unclean until evening. This is a permanent statute for the Israelites and for the foreigner residing among them.

Numbers 19:10

• וְלַגֵּ֛רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the sojourner

These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

Numbers 35:15

• וְלַגֵּ֤רvelagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the sojourner

At that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.

Deuteronomy 1:16

• גֵּרֽוֹ׃geronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sojourner his

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

Deuteronomy 5:14

• וְגֵֽרְךָ֙vegerekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and sojourner your

He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

Deuteronomy 10:18

• גֵּ֔רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 10:19

• הַגֵּ֑רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner
• גֵרִ֥יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Deuteronomy 14:21

• לַגֵּ֨רlagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

Then the Levite (because he has no portion or inheritance among you), the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates may come and eat and be satisfied. And the LORD your God will bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 14:29

• וְ֠הַגֵּרvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Deuteronomy 16:11

• וְהַגֵּ֛רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Deuteronomy 16:14

• וְהַגֵּ֛רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

Deuteronomy 23:7

• גֵ֖רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

Deuteronomy 24:14

• מִגֵּרְךָ֛migerekhapreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: one of sojourner your

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.

Deuteronomy 24:17

• גֵּ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 24:19

• לַגֵּ֛רlagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:20

• לַגֵּ֛רlagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.

Deuteronomy 24:21

• לַגֵּ֛רlagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.

Deuteronomy 26:11

• וְהַגֵּ֖רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

When you have finished laying aside a tenth of all your produce in the third year, the year of the tithe, you are to give it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat and be filled within your gates.

Deuteronomy 26:12

• לַגֵּר֙lagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

Then you shall declare in the presence of the LORD your God, “I have removed from my house the sacred portion and have given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commandments You have given me. I have not transgressed or forgotten Your commandments.

Deuteronomy 26:13

• וְלַגֵּר֙velagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and to the sojourner

‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’

Deuteronomy 27:19

• גֵּר־ger-noun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

The foreigner living among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink down lower and lower.

Deuteronomy 28:43

• הַגֵּר֙hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Deuteronomy 29:11

• וְגֵ֣רְךָ֔vegerekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and sojourner your

Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 31:12

• וְגֵרְךָ֖vegerekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and sojourner your

All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.

Joshua 8:33

• כַּגֵּר֙kagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: as the sojourner

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.

Joshua 8:35

• וְהַגֵּ֖רvehagerconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the sojourner

These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.

Joshua 20:9

• וְלַגֵּר֙velagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the sojourner

And David inquired of the young man who had brought him the report, “Where are you from?” “I am the son of a foreigner,” he answered. “I am an Amalekite.”

2 Samuel 1:13

• גֵּ֥רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:2

• הַגֵּרִ֔יםhagerimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the sojourners

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

1 Chronicles 29:15

• גֵרִ֨יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.

2 Chronicles 2:17

• הַגֵּירִים֙hageirimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the sojourners

Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.

2 Chronicles 30:25

• וְהַגֵּרִ֗יםvehagerimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the sojourners

but no stranger had to lodge on the street, for my door has been open to the traveler—

Job 31:32

• גֵּ֑רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

Psalms 39:12

• גֵ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.

Psalms 94:6

• וְגֵ֣רvegerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and sojourner

I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.

Psalms 119:19

• גֵּ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: a sojourner

The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

Psalms 146:9

• גֵּרִ֗יםgerimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sojourners

For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14:1

• הַגֵּר֙hagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Jeremiah 7:6

• גֵּ֣רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: sojourner

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

Jeremiah 14:8

• כְּגֵ֣רkegerpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a sojourner

This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.

Jeremiah 22:3

• וְגֵר֩vegerconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and sojourner

For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.

Ezekiel 14:7

• וּמֵהַגֵּר֮umehagerconjunction (“and”) + preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and from the sojourner

Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

Ezekiel 22:7

• לַגֵּ֛רlagerpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the sojourner

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.

Ezekiel 22:29

• הַגֵּ֥רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

You shall allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the foreigners who dwell among you and who have children. You are to treat them as native-born Israelites; along with you, they shall be allotted an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 47:22

• וּלְהַגֵּרִים֙ulehagerimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and for the sojourners

In whatever tribe a foreigner dwells, you are to assign his inheritance there,” declares the Lord GOD.

Ezekiel 47:23

• הַגֵּ֖רhagerthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sojourner

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.’

Zechariah 7:10

• גֵּ֥רgernoun · masculine singulartagged: sojourner

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.

Malachi 3:5

• גֵר֙gernoun · masculine singulartagged: of a sojourner