# H8453 תּוֹשָׁב

תּוֹשָׁב (tôwshâb), Strong’s H8453: resident alien KJV: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.. Occurs 14 times.

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*tôwshâb* — resident alien

KJV: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.

Derived from [יָשַׁב yâshab](https://besorah.bible/word/H3427) (to sit down)

Occurs 14 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- תּוֹשָׁב n.m. sojourner
- תִּשְׁבֶּה n.pr.loc
- [תִּשְׁבֶּה] n.pr.loc. 1 K 17:1 home of Elijah

## Where it occurs
- [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 12:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/12?v=45) — A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
- [Leviticus 22:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/22?v=10) — “‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of…
- [Leviticus 25:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=6) — The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired…
- [Leviticus 25:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=23) — “‘The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; for you are strangers and live as foreigners with me.
- [Leviticus 25:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=35) — “‘If your brother has become poor, and his hand can’t support himself among you, then you shall uphold him. He shall…
- [Leviticus 25:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=40) — As a hired servant, and as a temporary resident, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of…
- [Leviticus 25:45](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=45) — Moreover, of the children of the aliens who live among you, of them you may buy, and of their families who are with…
- [Leviticus 25:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/25?v=47) — “‘If an alien or temporary resident with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells…
- [Numbers 35:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/35?v=15) — These six cities shall be refuge for the children of Israel, for the stranger, and for the foreigner living among them…