Strong's #3427: yashab (pronounced yaw-shab')
a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry:--(make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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yâshab
1) to dwell, remain, sit, abide
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to sit, sit down
1a2) to be set
1a3) to remain, stay
1a4) to dwell, have one' s abode
1b) (Niphal) to be inhabited
1c) (Piel) to set, place
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to sit
1d2) to cause to abide, set
1d3) to cause to dwell
1d4) to cause (cities) to be inhabited
1d5) to marry (give an dwelling to)
1e) (Hophal)
1e1) to be inhabited
1e2) to make to dwell
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 1081 times:
1 Kings 17:9: "thee to Zarephath, which and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow"
1 Kings 17:19: "into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon"
1 Kings 19:4: "journey and came and sat down under a juniper tree: and he requested"
1 Kings 21:8: "the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth."
1 Kings 21:9: "saying, Proclaim and set Naboth on high among the people:"
1 Kings 21:10: " And set two men, sons before him, to bear witness against him, saying,"
1 Kings 21:11: "even the elders and the nobles were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel"
1 Kings 21:12: "They proclaimed a fast, and set on high among the people."
1 Kings 21:13: "men, children and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against"
1 Kings 22:1: " And they continued three years without between Syria and Israel."
1 Kings 22:10: "and Jehoshaphat the king sat each on his throne, having put on"
1 Kings 22:19: "I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host"
2 Kings 1:9: "And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of a hill. And he spoke"
2 Kings 2:2: "said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD"
2 Kings 2:4: "And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry I pray thee; for the LORD"
2 Kings 2:6: "And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, for the LORD hath sent"
2 Kings 2:18: "And when they came again to him, (for he tarried he said unto them, Did I not"
2 Kings 4:13: "of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people."
2 Kings 4:20: "him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon,"
2 Kings 4:38: "and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, Set on"
2 Kings 6:1: "the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for"
2 Kings 6:2: "and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go"
2 Kings 6:32: "But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders with him; and the king sent a man"
2 Kings 6:32: "sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before"
2 Kings 7:3: "to another, Why sit we here until we die?"
2 Kings 7:4: "and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come,"
2 Kings 9:5: "behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain."
2 Kings 10:30: "that was in mine heart, thy children of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel."
2 Kings 11:19: "of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings."
2 Kings 13:5: "the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as formerly."
2 Kings 13:13: "with his fathers; sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried"
2 Kings 14:10: "Edom, and thine heart glory of this, and tarry at home: for why shouldest thou meddle"
2 Kings 15:5: "unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's"
2 Kings 15:12: "Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth"
2 Kings 16:6: "from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this"
2 Kings 17:6: "Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor"
2 Kings 17:24: "and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed"
2 Kings 17:24: "of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt"
2 Kings 17:25: "And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, not the LORD:"
2 Kings 17:26: "which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not"
2 Kings 17:27: "whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach"
2 Kings 17:28: "whom they had carried away came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught"
2 Kings 17:29: "every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt."
2 Kings 18:27: "hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the wall, that they may eat"
2 Kings 19:15: "O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone,"
2 Kings 19:26: " Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed they were as the grass of the field,"
2 Kings 19:27: "But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, against"
2 Kings 19:36: "departed, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."
2 Kings 22:14: "keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with"
2 Kings 22:16: "this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the words of the book"
