תּוֹשָׁב
tôwshâb · H8453 · Hebrew · 14 occurrences
Meanings
-
sojourner
State in which humans live in a place which is not their place of origin or nationality, either permanently or for a substantial period of time
ExamplesGenesis 23:4 “I am a stranger and a foreign resident among you; give me a burial site among you so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
Exodus 12:45 “A stranger or a hired worker shall not eat it.
Leviticus 22:10 ‘No layman, however, is to eat the holy gift; a foreign resident with the priest or a hired worker shall not eat the holy gift.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- גּוּרto sojourn 1
- גִּלְעָדGilead 1
- כֹּהֵןpriest 1
- ךָyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גּוּרto sojourn 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גֵּרalien, sojourner, stranger 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָכַלto eat, to devour 2
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- אֲנַחְנוּwe 1
- אָנֹכִיI 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 2
- מִןfrom 1
- כlike/as 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- יָדhand, power 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Near synonyms 1 word
- גֵּר gêr · H1616 · alien, sojourner, stranger
- Both words denote non-native residents with overlapping but possibly distinct legal or social statuses, and both are rendered "sojourner" and "stranger".
In the other Testament 1 word
- πάροικος pároikos · G3941 · alien, stranger, temporary resident
- Greek πάροικος denotes a resident alien or sojourner dwelling near/among a host community, directly translating Hebrew תּוֹשָׁב's core sense of a foreigner who resides (rather than merely passes through) in a land not their own.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Classes001001003001
- This noun denotes a resident alien living among a people not his own, as in Genesis 23:4's account of Abraham describing himself as a stranger and foreign resident among the Hittites.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8453. toshab תּוֺשָׁב noun masculineLev 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; absolute…
תּוֺשָׁב noun masculineLev 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; absolute ׳ת Gen 23:4 Gen 23:6t; construct תּוֺשַׁב Lev 22:10; suffix תּוֺשָֽׁבְךָ Lev 25:6; plural תּוֺשָׁבִים Lev 25:6 Lev 25:2t.; construct תּשָׁבֵי 1Ki 17:1, but read תִּשְׁבֶּה (q. v.) ᵐ5 Ew Th Hi; — sojourner, apparently of a more temporaty and dependent (Lev 22:10; Lev 25:6) kind than the גֵּר (with which it is often joined): || שָׂכִיר Exo 12:45 (P), Lev 22:10 (׳ת כֹּהֵן apriest's sojourner), Lev 25:6, Lev 25:40 (all H); עִמָּכֶם הַגָּרִים הַתּוֺשָׁבִים Lev 25:45 (c. participle גָּר also Lev 25:6); with עִם, also Lev 25:47 (twice in verse) (H); with בְּתוֺךְ Num 35:15 (P). Figurative of one enjoying only a temporary tenure, with עִם Gen 23:4, with ׳י Lev 25:23; Psa 39:13, with לִפְנֵי 1Ch 29:15. — 1Ki 17:1 see above
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.