Toshav תּוֹשָׁב

Toshav (Hebrew תּוֹשָׁב, Strong's H8453) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “sojourner”. It occurs 14 times in 13 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H8453A: sojourner

H8453B: Tishbe

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Toshav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• 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.“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

Exodus

• Exodus 12:45
  A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

Leviticus

• Leviticus 22:10
  There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.No 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 25:6
  And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,Whatever 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 25:23
  The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.The land must not be sold permanently, because it is Mine, and you are but foreigners and residents with Me.
• 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; that he may live with thee.Now 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 25:40
  But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:Let him stay with you as a hired worker or temporary resident; he is to work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
• Leviticus 25:45
  Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.You 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
  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 sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger’s family:If 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

• 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 that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.These 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

• 1 Kings 17:1
  And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

1 Chronicles

• 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.For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalms

• Psalm 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 fathers were.Hear 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.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).