Strong's Hebrew · H3427
H3427 yâshab
יָשַׁב
yaw-shab'
to dwell
Looking for Greek G3427 moí? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3427. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
yâshab appears 1,075 times in Scripture, including Genesis 4:16 and Exodus 2:21. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
In the King James Version
(make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, × marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 1,075 times in Scripture
“So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.”
“And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.”
“And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.”
“And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.”
“Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.”
“But the land was unable to support both of them while they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they were unable to coexist.”
“Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.”
“Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.”
“Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
