Genesis 20:1
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
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Sojourned
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Hebrews 11:9
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
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גּוּר
gûwr · goor
11 times translated as this KJV form98 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, × surely.
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Strong's first: Genesis 20:1Strong's last: Psalms 105:23
Open full H1481 profile →παροικέω
paroikéō · par-oy-keh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to dwell near, i.e. reside as a foreigner
Strong's KJV usage: :--sojourn in, be a stranger.
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Strong's first: Hebrews 11:9Strong's last: Hebrews 11:9
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H1481
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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sojourn
SOJOURN, verb intransitive so'jurn. To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident, or as a stranger, not considering the place as his permanent habitation. So Abram sojourned in Egypt. Genesis 12:10.
SO'JOURN, noun A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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