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תּוֹשָׁב toshav
Hebrew word for “sojourner” · Strong’s H8453 · used 14 times in 13 verses
Meaning
sojourner, stranger
How it is translated
Glosses given for toshav in context, with how often each is used:
- resident alien 9
- resident aliens 3
- like a resident alien 1
- one of the resident aliens 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leviticus | 8 | 0.7 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 25 (6), Genesis 23 (1), Exodus 12 (1), Leviticus 22 (1), Numbers 35 (1), 1 Kings 17 (1), 1 Chronicles 29 (1), Psalms 39 (1)
Forms
- תושׁב 4
- ותושׁב 3
- ותושׁבים 2
- ולתושׁבך 1
- כתושׁב 1
- התושׁבים 1
- ולתושׁב 1
- מתשׁבי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with toshav more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- גֵּר ger “sojourner” 7
- שָׂכִיר sakhir “hired” 4
- עִם im “with” 7
- מוּךְ mukh “be poor” 2
- אֲחֻזָּה achuzzah “possession” 2
- מָכַר makhar “to sell” 2
- גּוּר gur “to sojourn” 2
- מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 2
- אָנֹכִי anokhi “I” 2
- כֶם khem “you” 2
- אָח ach “brother” 2
- שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 2
Key verses
The verses using toshav that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 23:4 — I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
- Exodus 12:45 — A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
- Leviticus 22:10 — There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Leviticus 25:6 — And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that…
- Leviticus 25:23 — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- Leviticus 25:35 — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live…
- Leviticus 25:40 — But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
- Leviticus 25:47 — And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to…
- Numbers 35:15 — These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any…
- 1 Kings 17:1 — And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew…
- 1 Chronicles 29:15 — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- Psalms 39:12 — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.