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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:

ׁ

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:

2 Kings 22:19: "against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse,"
2 Kings 23:2: "the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets,"
2 Kings 25:24: "not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve"
1 Chronicles 2:55: "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These"
1 Chronicles 4:23: "These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants there they dwelt with"
1 Chronicles 4:23: "among plants there they dwelt with the king for his work."
1 Chronicles 4:28: " And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,"
1 Chronicles 4:40: "and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old."
1 Chronicles 4:41: "unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there"
1 Chronicles 4:43: "the rest of the Amalekites and dwelt there unto this day."
1 Chronicles 5:8: "the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:"
1 Chronicles 5:9: "And eastward he inhabited unto the entering in from the river Euphrates:"
1 Chronicles 5:10: "the Hagarites, who fell by their hand: and they dwelt in their tents throughout all"
1 Chronicles 5:11: "And the children of Gad dwelt over against of Bashan unto Salchah:"
1 Chronicles 5:16: " And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, the suburbs of Sharon, upon"
1 Chronicles 5:22: "the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity."
1 Chronicles 5:23: "of the half tribe of Manasseh dwelt in the land: they increased from Bashan"
1 Chronicles 7:29: "Dor and her towns. In these dwelt the children of Joseph the son of Israel."
1 Chronicles 8:6: "these of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:"
1 Chronicles 8:13: "who were heads of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who drove away"
1 Chronicles 8:13: "who drove away the inhabitants of Gath:"
1 Chronicles 8:28: "by their generations, men. These dwelt in Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 8:29: "And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; name was Maachah:"
1 Chronicles 8:32: "Shimeah. also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against"
1 Chronicles 9:2: "Now the first inhabitants that dwelt in their possessions were, the Israelites, the priests, Levites,"
1 Chronicles 9:3: "And in Jerusalem dwelt of the children and of the children of Benjamin,"
1 Chronicles 9:16: "of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites."
1 Chronicles 9:34: "throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 9:35: "And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, whose wife's name was Maachah:"
1 Chronicles 9:38: "Shimeam. also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, over against"
1 Chronicles 10:7: "and fled: and the Philistines came and dwelt"
1 Chronicles 11:4: "is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land."
1 Chronicles 11:5: " And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, come hither. Nevertheless David"
1 Chronicles 11:7: "And David dwelt in the castle; therefore it the city of David."
1 Chronicles 13:6: "the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name"
1 Chronicles 13:14: "And the ark of God remained with of Obed-edom in his house three"
1 Chronicles 17:1: "Now it came to pass, as David sat that David said to"
1 Chronicles 17:1: "the prophet, Lo, I dwell in a house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant"
1 Chronicles 17:4: "Thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in:"
1 Chronicles 17:5: "For I have not dwelt in a house the day that I brought up"
1 Chronicles 17:16: "And David the king came and sat the LORD, and said, Who"
1 Chronicles 19:5: "ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards"
1 Chronicles 20:1: "Rabbah. But David tarried at Jerusalem. And Joab smote"
1 Chronicles 22:18: "on every side? for he hath given the inhabitants of the land into mine hand; and the land"
1 Chronicles 28:5: "sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom"
1 Chronicles 29:23: "Then Solomon sat on the throne as king instead of David"
2 Chronicles 2:3: "him cedars to build him a house to dwell"
2 Chronicles 6:2: "a house of habitation for thy dwelling forever."
2 Chronicles 6:10: "in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as"
2 Chronicles 6:16: "fail thee a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel;"









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