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:
Zephaniah 1:13: "they shall also build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink"
Zephaniah 1:18: "a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land."
Zephaniah 2:5: "Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, of the Cherethites! the word of the LORD"
Zephaniah 2:5: "of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant."
Zephaniah 2:15: "This is the rejoicing city that dwelt that said in her heart, I"
Zephaniah 3:6: "their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant."
Haggai 1:4: "Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled and this house lie waste?"
Zechariah 1:11: "and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest."
Zechariah 2:4: "young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men"
Zechariah 2:7: "Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest of Babylon."
Zechariah 3:8: "thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men"
Zechariah 5:7: "is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah."
Zechariah 6:13: "and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be"
Zechariah 7:7: "prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited"
Zechariah 7:7: "and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?"
Zechariah 8:4: "old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff"
Zechariah 8:20: "come to pass, that there shall come people, and the inhabitants of many cities:"
Zechariah 8:21: " And the inhabitants of one city shall go to saying, Let us go speedily"
Zechariah 9:5: "shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited."
Zechariah 9:6: "And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off of the Philistines."
Zechariah 11:6: "I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD:"
Zechariah 12:5: "of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts"
Zechariah 12:6: "and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem."
Zechariah 12:7: "of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against"
Zechariah 12:8: "day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that"
Zechariah 12:10: "the house of David, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications:"
Zechariah 13:1: "to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness."
Zechariah 14:10: "to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate"
Zechariah 14:11: " And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
Zechariah 14:11: "but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited."
Malachi 3:3: " And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: the sons of Levi,"
