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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sojourn.

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sojourn + -eth

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Examples

  • Still, "sojourneth," in Eze 47: 23, implies that in Canaan, the covenant people are regarded as at home, the strangers as settlers.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • 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, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 1

    Archive for » 2008 » June : Sustainablog 2008

  • 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, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. 1

    The Sensibility of Sabbaths for Sustainable Living 2008

  • But pluralism has its limits: “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.”

    The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

  • And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty: 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.

    Reposition Yourself T.D. Jakes 2007

  • One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • 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.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

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