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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.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

גֵּרgêr · gare
H1616 · Hebrew

Definition: properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
Derivation: or (fully) geyr (gare); from H1481 (גּוּר);
KJV renderings: alien, sojourner, stranger.
Grammar: גֵּר — common noun, masculine, singular, absolute
Code HNcmsa
Usage: Occurs 92 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 15:13 Exodus 2:22 Exodus 12:19 Exodus 12:48 Exodus 12:49

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.

Verse 3 Verse 5

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.