Genesis 23:4

Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data

"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."

Word-by-Word Analysis

I am a

גֵּר

gêr

H1616

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

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and a

תּוֹשָׁב

tôwshâb

H8453

resident alien

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with you

נָתַן

nâthan

H5414

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

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me a

אֲחֻזָּה

ʼăchuzzâh

H272

something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)

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of a

קֶבֶר

qeber

H6913

a sepulchre

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with you that I may

קָבַר

qâbar

H6912

to inter

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my

מוּת

mûwth

H4191

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

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out of my

עַיִן

ʻayin

H5869

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

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Key Terms in This Verse

buryingplace H6913

קֶבֶר qeber

a sepulchre

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sojourner H8453

תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb

resident alien

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bury H6912

קָבַר qâbar

to inter

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possession H272

אֲחֻזָּה ʼăchuzzâh

something seized, i.e. a possession (especially of land)

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stranger H1616

גֵּר gêr

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

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sight H5869

עַיִן ʻayin

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

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dead H4191

מוּת mûwth

to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill

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give H5414

נָתַן nâthan

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

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Cross References

Hebrews 11:9 cross-reference

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

1 Chronicles 29:15 cross-reference

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.

Genesis 17:8 cross-reference

And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

Psalm 119:19 cross-reference

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Genesis 49:30 cross-reference

In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

Acts 7:5 cross-reference

And he gave him none inheritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on: yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had no child.

Leviticus 25:23 cross-reference

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Psalm 39:12 cross-reference

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.

1 Peter 2:11 cross-reference

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Ecclesiastes 12:7 cross-reference

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Genesis 47:9 cross-reference

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the...

Job 30:23 cross-reference

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Genesis 3:19 cross-reference

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 cross-reference

Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth...

Genesis 50:13 cross-reference

For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, be...

Ecclesiastes 6:3 cross-reference

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is ...

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