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Exodus 23:9
“Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
גֵּרgêr · gare
H1616 · Hebrew
H1616 · Hebrew
- Definition
- properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
- Derivation
- or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);
- KJV renderings
- alien, sojourner, stranger.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- גֵ֖ר — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
- Usage
- Occurs 92 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:13Genesis 23:4Exodus 2:22Exodus 12:19Exodus 12:48
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read גֵּר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.