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:
Judges 11:26: "While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and her towns, and in all the cities"
Judges 13:9: "unto the woman as she sat in the field: but Manoah her husband was not"
Judges 15:8: "slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam."
Judges 16:9: "Now there were men lying in wait, abiding with her in the chamber. And she said him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson."
Judges 16:12: "be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he broke them from off"
Judges 17:10: "And Micah said unto him, Dwell with unto me a father and a priest, and I"
Judges 17:11: "And the Levite was content to dwell with and the young man was unto him as one"
Judges 18:1: "of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day"
Judges 18:7: "the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet"
Judges 18:28: "lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built a city, and dwelt"
Judges 19:4: "the damsel's father, retained him; and he abode with him three days: so they did eat"
Judges 19:6: " And they sat down, and did eat and drink both for the damsel's father had said"
Judges 19:15: "and to lodge and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of the city: for there was no man"
Judges 20:15: "men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered"
Judges 20:26: "and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted"
Judges 20:47: "unto the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months."
Judges 21:2: "And the people came to the house of God, and abode till even before"
Judges 21:9: "were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:10: "of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead"
Judges 21:12: "And they found among the inhabitants among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four young"
Judges 21:23: "and repaired the cities, and dwelt"
Ruth 1:4: "and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years."
Ruth 2:7: "the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house."
Ruth 2:14: "the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers:"
Ruth 2:23: "harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother-in-law."
Ruth 3:18: "Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until how the matter"
Ruth 4:1: "Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: the kinsman of whom Boaz"
Ruth 4:1: "he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down."
Ruth 4:1: "turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down."
Ruth 4:2: "of the elders and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down."
Ruth 4:2: "and said, Sit ye down here. And they sat down."
Ruth 4:4: "to advertise thee, saying, it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people."
1 Samuel 1:9: "they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post"
1 Samuel 1:22: "before the LORD, and there abide forever."
1 Samuel 1:23: "unto her, Do thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the LORD"
1 Samuel 1:23: "his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until"
1 Samuel 2:8: "out of the dust, and lifteth up from the dunghill, to set them among princes,"
1 Samuel 4:4: "the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons"
1 Samuel 4:13: "And when he came, lo, Eli sat a seat by the wayside"
1 Samuel 5:7: "of the God of Israel shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore"
1 Samuel 6:21: "And they sent messengers to the inhabitants saying, The Philistines have brought again"
1 Samuel 7:2: "And it came to pass, while the ark abode that the time was long;"
1 Samuel 12:8: "your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place."
1 Samuel 12:11: "you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe."
1 Samuel 13:16: "and the people with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped"
1 Samuel 14:2: "And Saul tarried in the uttermost part of Gibeah a pomegranate tree which is in Migron:"
1 Samuel 19:2: "therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:"
1 Samuel 19:9: "Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David"
1 Samuel 19:18: "to him. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth."
1 Samuel 20:5: "tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat:"
