Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Dwelling, or having an abode, in a place for a continued length of time; residing on one's own estate; -- opposed to nonresident; as, resident in the city or in the country. 2. (a.) Fixed; stable; certain. 3. (n.) One who resides or dwells in a place for some time. 4. (n.) A diplomatic representative who resides at a foreign court; -- a term usually applied to ministers of a rank inferior to that of ambassadors.

Multi-Version Concordance Resident (6 Occurrences) Exodus 12:45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. (See NIV) Leviticus 25:6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you. (See NAS NIV) Leviticus 25:35 "'If your brother has become poor, and his hand can't support him among you; then you shall uphold him. As a stranger and a sojourner he shall live with you. (See NIV) Leviticus 25:40 As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee: (See NIV) Leviticus 25:47 "'If a stranger or sojourner with you becomes rich, and your brother beside him has grown poor, and sells himself to the stranger or foreigner living among you, or to a member of the stranger's family; (See NIV) Isaiah 33:24 And the men of Zion will not say, I am ill: for its people will have forgiveness for their sin. (See NAS)