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Strong's H1481 גּוּר (gur)

Gur means “fear” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G1481 — ethnarches (“ethnarch”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H1481
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 94
Books 22

Strong's H1481 Quick Answer

Strong's H1481 גּוּר (guwr) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. guwr (goor) v. 1. (properly) to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose) 2. to sojourn (as a guest) It has 94 linked Bible usages across 22 books. Visible English usage signals include sojourn, sojourneth, any, sojourned, and fear. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
guwr (goor) v. 1. (properly) to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose) 2. to sojourn (as a guest)
Usage
94 linked usages
Books
22 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
sojourn, sojourneth, any, sojourned, and fear

Meaning and Definition

guwr (goor) v. 1. (properly) to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose) 2. to sojourn (as a guest) 3. (also) to shrink, fear (as in a strange place) 4. (also) to gather for hostility (as afraid) [a primitive root] KJV: abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, X surely.

Original Word
גּוּר
Transliteration
guwr
Derivation
Root: גור
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H1481. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to sojourn

Usage: 1) to sojourn, abide, dwell in, dwell with, remain, inhabit, be a stranger, be continuing, surely 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to sojourn, dwell for a time 1a2) to abide, stay, temporarily dwell 1b) (Hithpolel) 1b1) to seek hospitality with 1b2) to assemble oneself

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How Strong's H1481 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render guwr, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

sojourn Genesis 12:10 27× any Leviticus 17:10 11× sojourneth Exodus 3:22 11× sojourned Genesis 20:1 fear Psalms 22:23 also Exodus 6:4 feared Deuteronomy 32:27 have Genesis 21:23 other Jeremiah 44:8 sojourning Judges 19:1

How Strong's H1481 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 94 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H1481 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H1481 in the Old Testament

94 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 12:10 KJV

And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

Genesis 19:9 KJV

And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.

Genesis 20:1 KJV

And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

Usage Excerpts

First 94 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1481.

Genesis 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door.
Genesis 20:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Genesis 21:23 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
Genesis 21:34 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.
Genesis 26:3 Old Testament, KJV
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Genesis 32:4 Old Testament, KJV
And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Genesis 35:27 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
Genesis 47:4 Old Testament, KJV
They said morever unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Exodus 3:22 Old Testament, KJV
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
Exodus 6:4 Old Testament, KJV
And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers.
Exodus 12:48 Old Testament, KJV
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 come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 12:49 Old Testament, KJV
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Leviticus 16:29 Old Testament, KJV
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 do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:12 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus 17:13 Old Testament, KJV
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 fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 18:26 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 19:33 Old Testament, KJV
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus 19:34 Old Testament, KJV
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 in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:2 Old Testament, KJV
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, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 25:6 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Leviticus 25:45 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Numbers 9:14 Old Testament, KJV
And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers 15:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers 15:15 Old Testament, KJV
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 generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers 15:16 Old Testament, KJV
One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.
Numbers 15:26 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Numbers 15:29 Old Testament, KJV
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 that sojourneth among them.
Numbers 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
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 Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Numbers 22:3 Old Testament, KJV
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 1:17 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 18:6 Old Testament, KJV
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
Deuteronomy 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 26:5 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Deuteronomy 32:27 Old Testament, KJV
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Joshua 20:9 Old Testament, KJV
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Judges 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges 17:7 Old Testament, KJV
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Judges 17:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges 17:9 Old Testament, KJV
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
Judges 19:1 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
Judges 19:16 Old Testament, KJV
And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Ruth 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
1 Samuel 18:15 Old Testament, KJV
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
2 Samuel 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)
1 Kings 17:20 Old Testament, KJV
And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?
2 Kings 8:1 Old Testament, KJV
Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn wheresoever thou canst sojourn: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.
1 Chronicles 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
2 Chronicles 15:9 Old Testament, KJV
And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Ezra 1:4 Old Testament, KJV
And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
Job 19:15 Old Testament, KJV
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:29 Old Testament, KJV
Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 28:4 Old Testament, KJV
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Job 41:25 Old Testament, KJV
When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Psalms 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
Psalms 15:1 Old Testament, KJV
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms 33:8 Old Testament, KJV
Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Psalms 56:6 Old Testament, KJV
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
Psalms 59:3 Old Testament, KJV
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 61:4 Old Testament, KJV
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 105:12 Old Testament, KJV
When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
Psalms 105:23 Old Testament, KJV
Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms 120:5 Old Testament, KJV
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Psalms 140:2 Old Testament, KJV
Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war.
Isaiah 5:17 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Isaiah 11:6 Old Testament, KJV
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah 23:7 Old Testament, KJV
Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.
Isaiah 33:14 Old Testament, KJV
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 52:4 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Isaiah 54:15 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Jeremiah 35:7 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.
Jeremiah 42:15 Old Testament, KJV
And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
Jeremiah 42:17 Old Testament, KJV
So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah 42:22 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.
Jeremiah 43:2 Old Testament, KJV
Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:
Jeremiah 43:5 Old Testament, KJV
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
Jeremiah 44:8 Old Testament, KJV
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:12 Old Testament, KJV
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah 44:14 Old Testament, KJV
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Jeremiah 44:28 Old Testament, KJV
Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or their's.
Jeremiah 49:18 Old Testament, KJV
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
Jeremiah 49:33 Old Testament, KJV
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
Jeremiah 50:40 Old Testament, KJV
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein.
Lamentations 4:15 Old Testament, KJV
They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
Ezekiel 14:7 Old Testament, KJV
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 idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 47:22 Old Testament, KJV
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 shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:23 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.
Hosea 7:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
Hosea 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1481, grouped by book.

Genesis 9 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 11 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 8 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Old Testament
Judges 6 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezra 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 11 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 7 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 13 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 1 usage, Old Testament
Ezekiel 3 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H1481 FAQ

What does gur (גּוּר) mean?

Gur (Strong's H1481) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "fear". guwr (goor) v. 1. (properly) to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose) 2. to sojourn (as a guest)

How many times is gur (גּוּר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 94 linked usages for Strong's H1481 across 22 books.

Where can I study gur (גּוּר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1481 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate gur (גּוּר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sojourn, sojourneth, any, sojourned, fear, and also. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.