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:
Ezra 9:4: "of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonished until the evening sacrifice."
Ezra 10:2: "unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people"
Ezra 10:9: "day of the month; and all the people sat in the street of the house of God, trembling"
Ezra 10:10: "them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase"
Ezra 10:14: "and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come"
Ezra 10:16: "and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month"
Ezra 10:17: "And they made an end with all the men that had taken wives by the first"
Ezra 10:18: "And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives: namely, of the sons"
Nehemiah 1:4: "these that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted,"
Nehemiah 2:6: "And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting him,) For how long shall thy journey"
Nehemiah 3:13: "gate repaired and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up"
Nehemiah 3:26: "Moreover the Nethinims dwelt dwelt in Ophel, unto the water gate"
Nehemiah 4:12: "And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt them came, they said unto us ten"
Nehemiah 7:3: "and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one"
Nehemiah 7:73: "and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came,"
Nehemiah 8:14: "that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:"
Nehemiah 8:17: "made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days"
Nehemiah 9:24: "and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands,"
Nehemiah 11:1: "And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: of the people also cast lots,"
Nehemiah 11:1: "one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine"
Nehemiah 11:2: "all the men, to dwell at Jerusalem."
Nehemiah 11:3: "are the chief of the province that dwelt in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt"
Nehemiah 11:3: "in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah dwelt every one in his possession in their cities, to wit, Israel,"
Nehemiah 11:4: "And at Jerusalem dwelt certain of the children of Judah, of Benjamin."
Nehemiah 11:6: "All the sons of Perez that dwelt were four hundred threescore"
Nehemiah 11:21: "But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha were over the Nethinims."
Nehemiah 11:25: "with their fields, some of the children dwelt at Kirjath-arba, and in the villages thereof, and at Dibon,"
Nehemiah 13:16: " There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath"
Nehemiah 13:23: "saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:"
Nehemiah 13:27: "evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?"
Esther 1:2: "days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which"
Esther 1:14: "which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)"
Esther 2:19: "were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate."
Esther 2:21: "In those days, while Mordecai sat gate, two of the king's"
Esther 3:15: "the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed."
Esther 5:1: "the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal"
Esther 5:13: "see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
Esther 6:10: "even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing"
Esther 9:19: "Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt towns, made"
Job 2:8: "him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes."
Job 2:13: " So they sat down with him upon the ground seven and seven nights, and none"
Job 15:28: "cities, and in houses which man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps."
Job 22:8: "man, he had the earth; and the honorable man dwelt"
Job 24:13: "not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths"
Job 29:25: "I chose out their way, and sat chief, as a king in the army, as"
Job 36:7: "from the righteous: kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them forever, and they are exalted."
Job 38:40: "When they couch in their dens, and abide to lie in wait?"
Psalms 1:1: "in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."
Psalms 2:4: " He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord"
Psalms 4:8: "thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety."
