גּוּר gûwr — properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest)
Translated in the KJV as abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather, inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, stranger, × surely.
a primitive root; properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid).
gûwr in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 32Imperfect (yiqtol) 26Infinitive construct 18Perfect (qatal) 7Wayyiqtol 6Imperative 4Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
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.
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.
And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
Hitpolel
Participle (active) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
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?
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.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›