Definition of "sojourners" []

• Plural form of sojourner. (noun)

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• "Diether Kellermann's rendition of the term sojourners as "protected citizens" while enslaved in Egypt (Leviticus 19: 34) is na‚ve at best ("
• "The patriarchs were called sojourners; Ruth was a Moabite living in Bethlehem; Joseph was so assimilated into Egyptian culture his brothers did not recognize him; Nebuchadnezzar deported Daniel; Moses was an alien fugitive in Midian; David lived with the Philistines fleeing King Saul; Jesus, our Peace, our Redemption Crucified, was an infant carried over a border, like so many of my honor-roll discipleship students who dream about a future denied."
• "The geologist and the historian agree as to its location and composition, but the old miners and "sojourners" of the vanished golden era give strangely different versions of it."