Bible Dictionary: Define guwr, Definition of guwr

How can we know anything about anything

To try to explain truth to him who loves it not is but to give him more plentiful material for misinterpretation. George Macdonald

Do we have to make a choice between science and the Bible?

NO!

That is NOT where the problem is, but that is what everyone seems to want to talk about.

Take science as an example. How can we know anything about the created material world around us?

How can we know anything from what we can see using natural sciences?

We all see the same things in the material world, but we don't come to the same answers.

Why is that?

How can we know anything about the Bible and what it teaches? Every person believes different things about the Bible and how it should be read.

Why is that?

Same scientific facts. Different answers.

Same Bible. Different answers.

Why is that?

The true question is this: How do we come to our answers that we get from what we can see through science or what we can read in the Bible?

How do we think about what we see using science or what we read in the Bible?

How do we analyze what we have seen and read?

How do we interpret what we have seen and read?

We use logic, but logic always has a foundation. Jesus talked about building on the Rock. That Rock is Jesus Christ. He is the true foundation. There are also the false foundations of the ungodly.

An example might help.

Question: Why do you believe in evolution?

Answer: Because my science teacher told me that evolution is scientific fact.

Question: Why do you believe your science teacher?

Answer: because he agrees with the textbook he assigned us to read.

Now, we have asked, "Why?" twice.

If we continued to ask, "Why?" we would come down to the foundation of this person's thoughts.

When we get down to the foundations, there are no more questions that can be answered. So where to the foundations come from?

There are three possibilities.

things that we make up, pulled from the air
demonic lies
divine revelation

Question: Why do you believe in creation?

Answer: Because God revealed this to me. He spoke to me through the Bible and gave me His faith so that I could believe Him.

See how quickly we got to the foundation. This is a belief that has a foundation that is solid and that cannot be moved.

In reality, the things that we make up, that are pulled from the air, are actually from demons and all the lies of demons spring from the prince of demons, Satan. So these are one and the same.

Divine revelation comes from the Almighty, Creator, God, Jesus Christ. So there are only two choices, but how do we know there are only two choices? Because God has revealed this truth to us.

The question then is how do we tell the difference between the revelation that comes from God and the lies of Satan?

The answer is that everyone who sincerely wants to do the will of God will know.

Jesus said, "If you really want to obey God, you will know if what I teach comes from God or from me"

The rejection of the revelation that comes from God is not an intellectual problem. It is a moral problem.

Jesus said, "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you: For everyone who asks receives; and he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks it shall be opened." *

Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to those who ask him? Matthew 7:7-11 *

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You can set the truth before someone, but you can't make anyone believe those things that they don't want to submit to. They have to want to obey God.

How frequently it is brought to our attention that nothing good can be done if the will is wrong! Reason alone fails to justify itself. Richard M. Weaver

Jesus said, "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (John 8:32)

"If we are not prepared to buy the truth at the cost of our own humbling we shall not receive it"

Lies appear to have no price upon them. They seem cheap and they abound everywhere. But for the truth there is always an obvious price to pay.

"[God] has set a day when He will judge all the world's people with fairness. And He has chosen the man Jesus to do the judging for Him. God has given proof of this to all of us by raising Jesus from death" (Acts 17:31).

"There is a judge for the one who rejects Me [Jesus] and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day" (John 12:48)

That also stands for every person who speaks the utterances of Jesus. When we hear them, we hear Jesus Christ, and we either accept or reject. Every person who follows Jesus Christ is commanded to only speak His utterances and not their own.

"When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God" (1 John 3:19)

Ravi Zacharias did two open forums in a university. On the second night, one man told him that he had brought two Atheists in the night before who said that the arguments presented were so strong that they could not contend with them, but they were going to remain Atheists because that is what they prefer to be true.

In another case of just listening to an unbeliever and drawing out his reasoning, the unbeliever finally came to his foundations.

They turned out to be assumptions that were pulled from the air. When asked why he believed his basic assumption, the unbeliever looked startled and blurted out, "I guess I'm making the whole thing up." It was quite a revelation to him since he hadn't even known that he had any assumptions. However, he decided to remain an Atheist because he didn't want God to rule over him.

Definition of guwr:

Strong's Definition of guwr:

01481 רוג guwr goor
a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 330} {See TWOT on 332}
AV-sojourn 58, dwell 12, afraid 6, stranger 6, gather together 4, fear 3, abide 2, assemble 1, stand in awe 1, gathered 1, inhabitant 1, remain 1, sojourners 1, surely 1; 98
1) to sojourn, abide, dwell in, dwell with, remain, inhabit, be a stranger, be continuing, surely
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to sojourn, dwell for a time
1a2) to abide, stay, temporarily dwell
1b) (Hithpolel)
1b1) to seek hospitality with
1b2) to assemble oneself
2) to stir up trouble, strife, quarrel, gather together
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to stir up strife
2a2) to quarrel
2b) (Hithpolel) to excite oneself
3) to dread, fear, stand in awe, be afraid
3a) (Qal)
3a1) to fear, be afraid
3a2) to be in awe, stand in awe

stand in awe, excite oneself

Deuteronomy 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid/in awe <01481> of him.
Psalms 22:23 Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye the seed of Jacob, glorify him; and fear/reverence <01481> him, all ye the seed of Israel.
Psalms 33:8 Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe <01481> of him.

abide, stranger, dwell

Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn <01481> there; for the famine was grievous in the land.
Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn <01481>, 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.
Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned <01481> in Gerar.
Genesis 21:23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son’s son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned <01481>.
Genesis 21:34 And Abraham sojourned <01481> in the Philistines’ land many days.
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn <01481> in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
Genesis 32:4 And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned <01481> with Laban, and stayed there until now:
Genesis 35:27 And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned <01481>.
Genesis 47:4 They said moreover unto Pharaoh, For to sojourn <01481> in the land are we come; for thy servants have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan: now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen.
Exodus 3:22 But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth <01481> 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.
Exodus 6:4 And I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers <01481>.
Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn <01481> with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth <01481> among you.
Leviticus 16:29 And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth <01481> among you:
Leviticus 17:8 And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn <01481> among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,
Leviticus 17:10 And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn <01481> among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:12 Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth <01481> among you eat blood.
Leviticus 17:13 And whatsoever man there be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn <01481> among you, which hunteth and catcheth any beast or fowl that may be eaten; he shall even pour out the blood thereof, and cover it with dust.
Leviticus 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth <01481> among you:
Leviticus 19:33 And if a stranger sojourn <01481> with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
Leviticus 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth <01481> with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:2 Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn <01481> in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
Leviticus 25:6 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 <01481> with thee,
Leviticus 25:45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn <01481> among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.
Numbers 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn <01481> among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.
Numbers 15:14 And if a stranger sojourn <01481> with you, or whosoever be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD; as ye do, so he shall do.
Numbers 15:15 One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth <01481> with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD.
Numbers 15:16 One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth <01481> with you.
Numbers 15:26 And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth <01481> among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Numbers 15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth <01481> among them.
Numbers 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth <01481> among them, for a statute for ever.
Deuteronomy 18:6 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned <01481>, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the LORD shall choose;
Joshua 20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth <01481> among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
Judges 5:17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Dan remain <01481> in ships? Asher continued on the sea shore, and abode in his breaches.
Judges 17:7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned <01481> there.
Judges 17:8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn <01481> where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.
Judges 17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn <01481> where I may find a place.
Judges 19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning <01481> on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.
Judges 19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned <01481> in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.
Ruth 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn <01481> in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
2 Samuel 4:3 And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners <01481> there until this day.)
1 Kings 17:20 And he cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn <01481>, by slaying her son?
2 Kings 8:1 Then spake Elisha unto the woman, whose son he had restored to life, saying, Arise, and go thou and thine household, and sojourn <01481> wheresoever thou canst sojourn <01481>: for the LORD hath called for a famine; and it shall also come upon the land seven years.
2 Kings 8:2 And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned <01481> in the land of the Philistines seven years.
1 Chronicles 16:19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers <01481> in it.
2 Chronicles 15:9 And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers <01481> with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him.
Ezra 1:4 And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth <01481>, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, beside the freewill offering for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.
Job 19:15 They that dwell <01481> in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 28:4 The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant <01481>; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.
Psalms 5:4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell <01481> with thee.
Psalms 15:1 «A Psalm of David.» LORD, who shall abide <01481> in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Psalms 61:4 I will abide <01481> in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 105:12 When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers <01481> in it.
Psalms 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned <01481> in the land of Ham.
Psalms 120:5 Woe is me, that I sojourn <01481> in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
Isaiah 5:17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers <01481> eat.
Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell <01481> with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Isaiah 16:4 Let mine outcasts dwell <01481> with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Isaiah 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn <01481>.
Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell <01481> with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell <01481> with everlasting burnings?
Isaiah 52:4 For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn <01481> there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Jeremiah 35:7 Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers <01481>.
Jeremiah 42:15 And now therefore hear the word of the LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn <01481> there;
Jeremiah 42:17 So shall it be with all the men that set their faces to go into Egypt to sojourn <01481> there; they shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence: and none of them shall remain or escape from the evil that I will bring upon them.
Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn <01481>.
Jeremiah 43:2 Then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn <01481> there:
Jeremiah 43:5 But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell <01481> in the land of Judah;
Jeremiah 44:8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell <01481>, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jeremiah 44:12 And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn <01481> there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jeremiah 44:14 So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn <01481> there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Jeremiah 44:28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn <01481> there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Jeremiah 49:18 As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell <01481> in it.
Jeremiah 49:33 And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell <01481> in it.
Jeremiah 50:40 As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD; so shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell <01481> therein.
Lamentations 4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn <01481> there.
Ezekiel 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth <01481> in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
Ezekiel 47:22 And it shall come to pass, that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn <01481> among you, which shall beget children among you: and they shall be unto you as born in the country among the children of Israel; they shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 47:23 And it shall come to pass, that in what tribe the stranger sojourneth <01481>, there shall ye give him his inheritance, saith the Lord GOD.

gather, assemble:

Psalms 59:3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered <01481> against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Psalms 140:2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together <01481> for war.
Isaiah 54:15 Behold, they shall surely <01481> gather together <01481>, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together <01481> against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Hosea 7:14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble <01481> themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.

fear, afraid:

Numbers 22:3 And Moab was sore afraid <01481> of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 1:17 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid <01481> of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.
Deuteronomy 26:5 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned <01481> there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
Deuteronomy 32:27 Were it not that I feared <01481> the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
1 Samuel 18:15 Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid <01481> of him.
Job 19:29 Be ye afraid <01481> of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.
Job 41:25 When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid <01481>: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
Hosea 10:5 The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear <01481> because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

Bible Dictionary: Define guwr, Definition of guwr

How can we know anything about anything

Definition of guwr:

Strong's Definition of guwr:

stand in awe, excite oneself

abide, stranger, dwell

gather, assemble:

fear, afraid:

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