Genesis 23:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גֵּר־וְתוֹשָׁ֥ב אָנֹכִ֖י עִמָּכֶ֑ם תְּנ֨וּ לִ֤י אֲחֻזַּת־קֶ֙בֶר֙ עִמָּכֶ֔ם וְאֶקְבְּרָ֥ה מֵתִ֖י מִלְּפָנָֽי׃

Transliteration

Gēr and tôšāḇ ʾānōḵî with you, tənû to me ʾăḥuzzaṯ-qeḇer with you, and wə-ʾeqbərāh mēṯî from before me.

Grammar Details

• *Gēr*: masculine singular noun - stranger/sojourner
• *tôšāḇ*: masculine singular noun - resident alien/dweller
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I (am)
• *tənû*: qal imperative masculine plural - give
• *ʾăḥuzzaṯ*: construct state feminine singular - possession of
• *qeḇer*: masculine singular noun - grave/burial place
• *wə-ʾeqbərāh*: conjunction + qal cohortative 1st singular - and let me bury
• *mēṯî*: masculine singular noun + 1st singular suffix - my dead

Word Meanings

• *Gēr*: stranger/sojourner/alien/foreigner
• *tôšāḇ*: resident alien/temporary dweller/settler
• *ʾăḥuzzaṯ*: possession of/property of

Referenced Verses

• Gen 17:8 : 8 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.
• 1 Chr 29:15 : 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.
• Heb 11:9 : 9 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:
• Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Ps 119:19 : 19 I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
• Lev 25:23 : 23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
• Gen 49:30 : 30 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 : 5 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.
• Gen 50:13 : 13 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, before Mamre.
• Gen 47:9 : 9 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 years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
• Gen 3:19 : 19 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.
• Job 30:23 : 23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
• Eccl 6:3 : 3 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 better than he.
• Eccl 12:5 : 5 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 to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Ps 105:12-13 : 12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it. 13 When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
• Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. 15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;