Lexical Summary toshab: a sojourner Original Word: תּוֹשָׁבTransliteration: toshab Phonetic Spelling: (to-shawb') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: a sojourner Meaning: resident alien Strong's Concordance manner Probably feminine of towr; a custom -- manner. see HEBREW towr Brown-Driver-Briggs H8453. toshab תּוֺשָׁב noun masculineLeviticus 25:45 sojourner, only P (H) and late; absolute ׳ת Genesis 23:4 6t; construct תּוֺשַׁב Leviticus 22:10; suffix תּוֺשָֽׁבְךָ 25:6; plural תּוֺשָׁבִים 25:6 2t.; construct תּשָׁבֵי 1 Kings 17:1, but read תִּשְׁבֶּה (q. v.) ᵐ5 Ew Th Hi; — sojourner, apparently of a more temporaty and dependent (Leviticus 22:10; 25:6) kind than the גֵּר (with which it is often joined): "" שָׂכִיר Exodus 12:45 (P), Leviticus 22:10 (׳ת כֹּהֵן apriest's sojourner), 25:6, 40 (all H); עִמָּכֶם הַגָּרִים הַתּוֺשָׁבִים 25:45 (c. participle גָּר also 25:6); with עִם, also 25:47 (twice in verse) (H); with בְּתוֺךְ Numbers 35:15 (P). Figurative of one enjoying only a temporary tenure, with עִם Genesis 23:4, with ׳י Leviticus 25:23; Psalm 39:13, with לִפְנֵי 1 Chronicles 29:15. — 1 Kings 17:1 see above |
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