# H1616 גֵּר

גֵּר (gêr), Strong’s H1616: properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner KJV: alien, sojourner, stranger.. Occurs 92 times.

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*gêr* — properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

KJV: alien, sojourner, stranger.

Derived from [גּוּר gûwr](https://besorah.bible/word/H1481) (to turn aside from the road)

Occurs 92 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גֵּר 92 n.m. sojourner

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 15:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=13) — He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will…
- [Genesis 23:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/23?v=4) — “I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my…
- [Exodus 2:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=22) — She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
- [Exodus 12:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=19) — There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall…
- [Exodus 12:48](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=48) — When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be…
- [Exodus 12:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=49) — One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
- [Exodus 18:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/18?v=3) — and her two sons. The name of one son was Gershom, for Moses said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land”.
- [Exodus 20:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/20?v=10) — but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your…
- [Exodus 22:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/22?v=20) — “You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.
- [Exodus 23:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=9) — “You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.