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:
2 Samuel 15:8: "thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If"
2 Samuel 15:19: "with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou"
2 Samuel 15:29: "of God again to Jerusalem: and they tarried there."
2 Samuel 16:3: "unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem: for he said, Today"
2 Samuel 16:18: "choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide."
2 Samuel 18:24: "And David sat between the two and the watchman went up to"
2 Samuel 19:8: "Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. unto all the people, saying,"
2 Samuel 19:8: "saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came"
2 Samuel 23:8: "whom had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same"
1 Kings 1:13: "shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne? why then doth Adonijah"
1 Kings 1:17: "shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne."
1 Kings 1:20: "are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king"
1 Kings 1:24: "shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?"
1 Kings 1:27: "showed it unto thy servant, who should sit on the throne of my lord"
1 Kings 1:30: "shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even"
1 Kings 1:35: "Then ye shall come up after him, that he may come and sit my throne; for he shall be king"
1 Kings 1:46: "And also Solomon sitteth on of the kingdom."
1 Kings 1:48: "of Israel, which hath given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes"
1 Kings 2:12: " Then sat Solomon upon the throne his father; and his kingdom was established"
1 Kings 2:19: "rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a seat to be set"
1 Kings 2:19: "to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand."
1 Kings 2:24: "liveth, which me, and set me on the throne of David my father,"
1 Kings 2:36: "unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence"
1 Kings 2:38: "will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days."
1 Kings 3:6: "kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day."
1 Kings 3:17: "I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with"
1 Kings 4:25: "And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, under his vine and under"
1 Kings 7:8: "And his house where he dwelt had another within"
1 Kings 8:13: "I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in forever."
1 Kings 8:20: "in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as"
1 Kings 8:25: "fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel;"
1 Kings 8:27: "But will God indeed dwell the earth? behold, the heaven"
1 Kings 8:30: "thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive."
1 Kings 8:39: "Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling and forgive, and do, and give"
1 Kings 8:43: "Hear thou in heaven thy dwelling and do according to all that"
1 Kings 8:49: "their prayer and their supplication thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,"
1 Kings 9:16: "it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter,"
1 Kings 11:16: "six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until"
1 Kings 11:24: "slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus."
1 Kings 12:2: "from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)"
1 Kings 12:17: "But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities Rehoboam reigned over"
1 Kings 12:25: "Shechem Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built"
1 Kings 13:11: " Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; came and told"
1 Kings 13:14: "the man of God, him sitting under an oak: and he said unto"
1 Kings 13:20: "And it came to pass, as they sat at that the word of the LORD came"
1 Kings 13:25: "where the old prophet dwelt."
1 Kings 15:18: "of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,"
1 Kings 15:21: "of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."
1 Kings 16:11: "And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on that he slew all"
1 Kings 17:5: "according unto the word of the LORD: and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before"
