sojourn

«sojourn» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: live as a foreigner — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

live as a foreigner

part of speech

verb, base form (also a noun)

meaning for a pupil

To live for a time in a land that is not your own, as a stranger or visitor. tree →

how it differs from today

Today a sojourn is a short, formal stay. In the Torah it can mean living for a long time as a stranger in another land.

examples

• And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days. (Torah GEN.21.34, JPS 1917) tree →
• They told that they, in crossing Hungary, had sojourned in a mountainous country called Transylvania, where the inhabitants only spoke German, while all around them nothing was spoken but Hungarian. (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong. (Torah LEV.19.33, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

sojourn

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 17 (Torah 14, tales 3, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 1.9 (Torah alone 32.7); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the land of the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
• And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.
• And Jacob came unto Isaac his father to Mamre, to Kiriatharba — the same is Hebron — where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.
• One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'
• And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sojourn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.