This word comes from the name of Tishbe.
Definition
or תֹּשָׁב; (1 Kings 17:1), from H3427; a dweller but not outlandish [H5237]; especially (as distinguished from a native citizen [active participle of H3427] and a temporary inmate [H1616] or mere lodger [H3885]) resident alien
Traditional renderings: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
Traditional renderings: foreigner, inhabitant, sojourner, stranger.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
14 total
- Genesis 23:4וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב · and an outsider“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”
- Exodus 12:45תּוֹשָׁ֥ב · A temporary residentA temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
- Leviticus 22:10תּוֹשַׁ֥ב · may the guestNo one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
- Leviticus 25:6וּלְתוֹשָׁ֣בְךָ֔ · or foreignerWhatever the land yields during the Sabbath year shall be food for you—for yourself, your manservant and maidservant, the hired hand or foreigner who stays with you,
- Leviticus 25:23וְתוֹשָׁבִ֛ים · and residentsThe land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
- Leviticus 25:35וְתוֹשָׁ֛ב · or strangerNow if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
- Leviticus 25:40כְּתוֹשָׁ֖ב · or temporary residentLet him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
- Leviticus 25:45הַתּוֹשָׁבִ֜ים · foreignersYou may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
- Leviticus 25:47 (2×)וְתוֹשָׁב֙ · residing; תּוֹשָׁב֙If a foreigner residing among you prospers, but your countryman dwelling near him becomes destitute and sells himself to the foreigner or to a member of his clan,
- Numbers 35:15וְלַתּוֹשָׁב֙ · or strangerThese six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or stranger among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
- 1 Kings 17:1מִתֹּשָׁבֵ֣י · who was among the settlersNow Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
- 1 Chronicles 29:15וְתוֹשָׁבִ֖ים · and strangersFor we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Psalm 39:12תּ֝וֹשָׁ֗ב · a strangerHear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.