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# תּוֹשָׁב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8453

**sojourner** — used 14 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

sojourner [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8453/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תּוֹשָׁב: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8453/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Lv 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; abs. ת׳ Gn 23:4 + 6 times; cstr. תּוֹשַׁב Lv 22:10; sf. תּוֹשָֽׁבְךָ 25:6; pl. תּוֹשָׁבִים v 6 + 2 times; cstr. תֹּשָׁבֵי 1 K 17:1, but read תִּשְׁבֶּה (q.v.) 𝔊 Ew Th Hi;—sojourner, appar. of a more temporary and dependent (Lv 22:10; 25:6) kind than the גֵּר (with which it is often joined): ‖ שָׂכִיר Ex 12:45 (P), Lv 22:10 (ת׳ כֹּהֵן a priest’s sojourner), 25:6, 40 (all H); הַתּוֹשָׁבִים הַגָּרִים עִמָּכֶם v 45 (c. pt. גָּר also v 6); c. עִם, also Lv 25:47(×2) (H); c. בְּתוֹךְ Nu 35:15 (P). Fig. of one enjoying only a temporary tenure, c. עִם Gn 23:4, with י׳ Lv 25:23 ψ 39:13, c. לִפְנֵי 1 Ch 29:15.—1 K 17:1 v. supr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a resident alien (8); resident aliens (2); alien (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 12:45](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.45/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.45/#tree)

תּוֹשָׁ֥ב וְשָׂכִ֖יר לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל־בּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* a.resident.alien and a.hired.laborer not he.will.eat in it

*JPS 1917:* A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

[Leviticus 22:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.22.10/#tree)

וְכָל־זָ֖ר לֹא־יֹ֣אכַל קֹ֑דֶשׁ תּוֹשַׁ֥ב כֹּהֵ֛ן וְשָׂכִ֖יר לֹא־יֹ֥אכַל קֹֽדֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* and any stranger not he.will.eat a.holy.thing a.resident.alien of.a.priest and a.hired.laborer not he.will.eat a.holy.thing

*JPS 1917:* There shall no common man eat of the holy thing; a tenant of a priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8453.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8453/): 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).