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# מְגוּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4033

**sojourning-place** — used 11 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sojourning-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4033/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָגוֹר: sojourning-place, dwelling-place, sojourning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4033/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] sojourning-place, dwelling-place, sojourning—sf. מְגוּרָם ψ 55:16; pl. cstr. מְגוּרֵי Gn 37:1; sf. מְגוּרַי Gn 47:9, מְגוּרָ֑י ψ 119:54, מְגֻרֶיךָ Gn 17:8; 28:4, מְגוּרָיו Jb 18:19, מְגוּרֵיהֶם Gn 36:7 + 2 times, מְגֻרֵיהֶם Ex 6:4;—dwelling-place ψ 55:16 Jb 18:19;—sojourning(-place), always pl., אֶרֶץ מ׳ Gn 17:8; 28:4; 36:7; 37:1 Ex 6:4 (Hex always P) Ez 20:38; sojourning (pl.) = life-time, שְׁנֵי מ׳ Gn 47:9 יְמֵי מ׳ Gn 47:9; cf. בֵּית מ׳ ψ 119:54.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: their sojournings (4); my sojournings (2); your sojournings (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 119:54](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.54/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.54/#tree)

זְ֭מִרוֹת הָֽיוּ־לִ֥י חֻקֶּ֗יךָ בְּבֵ֣ית מְגוּרָֽי׃

*Word for word:* songs they.have.been for me decrees your in the.house my.sojournings my

*JPS 1917:* Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

[Genesis 37:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.37.1/#tree)

וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב יַעֲקֹ֔ב בְּאֶ֖רֶץ מְגוּרֵ֣י אָבִ֑יו בְּאֶ֖רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן׃

*Word for word:* and he.dwelt Jacob in the.land of.the.sojournings his.father his in the.land of.Canaan

*JPS 1917:* And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4033.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4033/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).