What does it mean to be a sojourner?

• SOJOURNER (noun) The noun SOJOURNER has 1 sense: 1. a temporary resident Familiarity information: SOJOURNER used as a noun is very rare. read more

Physic may do for such as relish it; to my taste and judgment it is neither palatable nor healthy; but morals never did harm to any living mortal, be it that he was a sojourner in the forest, or a dweller in the midst of glazed windows and smoking chimneys. read more

A few more centuries later, one of the nation’s greatest kings would admit to God, “I am a stranger with You, a sojourner, as all my fathers were” (Psalm 39:12). That’s an interesting word—sojourner. It’s an old one, and we don’t use it much anymore. A sojourner is simply someone who lives away from home. read more