Hebrew noun (masculine) · H8453
תּוֹשָׁב
toshabto-shawb'
sojourner; Tishbe
14 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tôwshâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8453is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8453
resident alien
The King James renders it: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
toshab is rendered "sojourner; Tishbe". It stands 14 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Eight of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "sojourner".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
Genesis 23:4וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's fourteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: sojourner, and Tishbe.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| sojournerStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 23:4“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you… |
| TishbeStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a resident alien3
- and a resident alien3
- and resident aliens2
- a resident alien of1
- and for the resident alien1
- and to resident alien your1
- like a resident alien1
- one of resident aliens of1
- the resident aliens1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תּוֹרָה | torah | instruction | Uses219 |
| תּוֹעֵבַה | toebah | abomination | Uses117 |
| תּוֹלָע | tola | worm | Uses43 |
| תּוֹלְדָה | toledah | generation | Uses39 |
| תּוֹדָה | todah | thanksgiving | Uses31 |
| תּוֹכֵחָה | tokechah | rebuke | Uses28 |
| תּוֹצָאָה | totsaah | outgoing | Uses23 |
| תּוֹר | tor | turtledove | Uses14 |
| תּוֹר | tor | bullock | Uses7 |
| תּוֹחֶלֶת | tocheleth | hope | Uses6 |
| תּוֹר | tor | plait | Uses4 |
| תּוֹעָפָה | toaphah | peak | Uses4 |
and 6 more on the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 14, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַתּוֹשָׁבִ֜ים1
- וְלַתּוֹשָׁב֙1
- וּלְתוֹשָׁ֣בְךָ֔1
- וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב1
- וְתוֹשָׁ֛ב1
- וְתוֹשָׁב֙1
- וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛ים1
- וְתוֹשָׁבִ֖ים1
- כְּתוֹשָׁ֖ב1
- מִתֹּשָׁבֵ֣י1
- תּוֹשַׁ֥ב1
- תּ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural2HC/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HC/Rd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HTd/Ncmpa
Genesis
one use
“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- וְתוֹשָׁ֥בvetoshavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a resident alien
Exodus
one use
A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
- תּוֹשָׁ֥בtoshavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a resident alien
Leviticus
eight uses
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
- תּוֹשַׁ֥בtoshavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a resident alien of
Whatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
- וּלְתוֹשָׁ֣בְךָ֔ultoshavekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and to resident alien your
The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛יםvetoshavimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and resident aliens
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.
- וְתוֹשָׁ֛בvetoshavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a resident alien
Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
- כְּתוֹשָׁ֖בketoshavpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: like a resident alien
You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
- הַתּוֹשָׁבִ֜יםhatoshavimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the resident aliens
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,
- וְתוֹשָׁב֙vetoshavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a resident alien
- תּוֹשָׁב֙toshavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a resident alien
Numbers
one use
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.
- וְלַתּוֹשָׁב֙velatoshavconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for the resident alien
1 Kings
one use
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- מִתֹּשָׁבֵ֣יmitoshaveipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: one of resident aliens of
1 Chronicles
one use
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- וְתוֹשָׁבִ֖יםvetoshavimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and resident aliens
Psalms
one use
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.
- תּ֝וֹשָׁ֗בtoshavnoun · masculine singulartagged: a resident alien
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.