# גֵּר (ger)

Israeli respelling: ger. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1616. 83 Old Testament occurrences.

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

King James renderings: alien, sojourner, stranger.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ger-h1616

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 15:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/15/13) — And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they sha…
- [Genesis 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Exodus 2:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/22) — And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- [Exodus 12:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/19) — Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from…
- [Exodus 12:48](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/48) — And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him com…
- [Exodus 12:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/12/49) — One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
- [Exodus 18:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/18/3) — And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
- [Exodus 20:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/20/10) — But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manserva…
- [Exodus 22:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/22/21) — Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- [Exodus 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Exodus 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/23/12) — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid,…
- [Leviticus 16:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/16/29) — And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and d…
- [Leviticus 17:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/8) — And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a…
- [Leviticus 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/10) — And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will eve…
- [Leviticus 17:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/12) — Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat bloo…
- [Leviticus 17:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/13) — And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or…
- [Leviticus 17:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/17/15) — And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stran…
- [Leviticus 18:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/18/26) — Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor a…
- [Leviticus 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/10) — And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and strang…
- [Leviticus 19:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/33) — And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
- [Leviticus 19:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/34) — But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers…
- [Leviticus 20:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/2) — Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, tha…
- [Leviticus 22:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/22/18) — Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of t…
- [Leviticus 23:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/23/22) — And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt…
- [Leviticus 24:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/24/16) — And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well…
- [Leviticus 24:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/24/22) — Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the LORD your God.
- [Leviticus 25:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/23) — The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
- [Leviticus 25:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/35) — And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner;…
- [Leviticus 25:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/25/47) — And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojou…
- [Numbers 9:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/9/14) — And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and accord…
- [Numbers 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/14) — And if a stranger sojourn with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savo…
- [Numbers 15:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/15) — One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your…
- [Numbers 15:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/16) — One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
- [Numbers 15:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/26) — And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people…
- [Numbers 15:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/29) — Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger…
- [Numbers 15:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/15/30) — But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul s…
- [Numbers 19:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/10) — And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of I…
- [Numbers 35:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/35/15) — These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one…
- [Deuteronomy 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/16) — And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brot…
- [Deuteronomy 5:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/5/14) — But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy mans…
- [Deuteronomy 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/18) — He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
- [Deuteronomy 10:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/19) — Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
- [Deuteronomy 14:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/21) — Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou m…
- [Deuteronomy 14:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/14/29) — And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within…
- [Deuteronomy 16:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/11) — And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levit…
- [Deuteronomy 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/16/14) — And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stra…
- [Deuteronomy 23:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/23/7) — Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
- [Deuteronomy 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/14) — Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy, whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land wit…
- [Deuteronomy 24:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/17) — Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
- [Deuteronomy 24:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/19) — When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be f…
- [Deuteronomy 24:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/20) — When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the…
- [Deuteronomy 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/24/21) — When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and fo…
- [Deuteronomy 26:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/11) — And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the…
- [Deuteronomy 26:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/12) — When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto…
- [Deuteronomy 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/26/13) — Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the L…
- [Deuteronomy 27:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/27/19) — Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- [Deuteronomy 28:43](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/28/43) — The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.
- [Deuteronomy 29:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/11) — Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
- [Deuteronomy 31:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/31/12) — Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may…
- [Joshua 8:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/33) — And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levite…
- [Joshua 8:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/35) — There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the litt…
- [Joshua 20:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/20/9) — These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any…
- [2 Samuel 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/1/13) — And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a stranger, an Amalekite.
- [1 Chronicles 22:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/2) — And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the…
- [1 Chronicles 29:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/15) — For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
- [2 Chronicles 2:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/2/17) — And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the numbering wherewith David his father had numbered them; a…
- [2 Chronicles 30:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/30/25) — And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers th…
- [Job 31:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/32) — The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
- [Psalms 39:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/12) — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my…
- [Psalms 94:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/94/6) — They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
- [Psalms 119:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/19) — I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
- [Psalms 146:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/146/9) — The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
- [Isaiah 14:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/1) — For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with t…
- [Jeremiah 7:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/7/6) — If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to…
- [Jeremiah 14:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/8) — O the hope of Israel, the saviour thereof in time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a stranger in the land, and as a wayfaring man that…
- [Jeremiah 22:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/22/3) — Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do n…
- [Ezekiel 14:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/14/7) — For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his id…
- [Ezekiel 22:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/7) — In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they v…
- [Ezekiel 22:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/29) — The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the strange…
- [Ezekiel 47:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/22) — And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, which s…
- [Ezekiel 47:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/47/23) — And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
- [Zechariah 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/10) — And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your hea…
- [Malachi 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/3/5) — And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false…