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 Samuel 20:5: "tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit should not fail to sit with the king at meat:"
1 Samuel 20:19: "thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel."
1 Samuel 20:24: "and when the new moon the king sat him down to eat meat."
1 Samuel 20:25: "And the king sat upon his seat, even upon a seat"
1 Samuel 20:25: "by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side,"
1 Samuel 22:4: "before the king and they dwelt with him all the while that David"
1 Samuel 22:5: "said unto Abide not in the hold; depart, and get"
1 Samuel 22:6: "that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah,"
1 Samuel 22:23: " Abide thou with me, fear not: he that seeketh"
1 Samuel 23:5: "So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah."
1 Samuel 23:14: "And David abode in the wilderness in strongholds, in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph."
1 Samuel 23:14: "abode in the wilderness in strongholds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul"
1 Samuel 23:18: "before and David abode in the wood, and Jonathan went to his house."
1 Samuel 23:25: "David: wherefore he came down into a rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard"
1 Samuel 23:29: "And David went up from thence, and dwelt at En-gedi."
1 Samuel 24:3: "his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave."
1 Samuel 25:13: "hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff."
1 Samuel 26:3: "Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that"
1 Samuel 27:3: "And David dwelt with Achish he and his men, every man"
1 Samuel 27:5: "in some town in the country, that I may dwell there: for why should thy servant dwell"
1 Samuel 27:5: "there: for why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with"
1 Samuel 27:7: "And the time that David dwelt of the Philistines was a full"
1 Samuel 27:8: "and the Amalekites: for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land,"
1 Samuel 27:11: "will be his manner all the while he dwelleth in the country of the Philistines."
1 Samuel 28:23: "unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed."
1 Samuel 30:21: "were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth"
1 Samuel 30:24: "is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike."
1 Samuel 31:7: "and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them."
1 Samuel 31:11: " And when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard the Philistines"
2 Samuel 1:1: "from the slaughter of the Amalekites, and David had abode two days in Ziklag;"
2 Samuel 2:3: "every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron."
2 Samuel 2:13: "by the pool of Gibeon: and they sat down, the one on the one side of"
2 Samuel 5:6: "to Jerusalem the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spoke unto David, saying,"
2 Samuel 5:9: "So David dwelt in the fort, and called of David. And David built"
2 Samuel 6:2: "name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims."
2 Samuel 6:11: "And the ark of the LORD continued in the house the Gittite three months:"
2 Samuel 7:1: "And it came to pass, when the king sat and the LORD had given him rest round about"
2 Samuel 7:2: "See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God"
2 Samuel 7:2: "of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."
2 Samuel 7:5: "the LORD, Shalt thou build me a house for me to dwell"
2 Samuel 7:6: "Whereas I have not dwelt in any house that I brought up"
2 Samuel 7:18: "Then went king David in, and sat the LORD, and he said, Who"
2 Samuel 9:13: "So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for did eat continually at"
2 Samuel 10:5: "ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown,"
2 Samuel 11:1: "and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 11:11: "and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants"
2 Samuel 11:12: "said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow"
2 Samuel 11:12: "and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow."
2 Samuel 13:20: "regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother"
2 Samuel 14:28: "So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, not the king's"
