Strong's Hebrew · H3427

יָשַׁב

yâshab · yaw-shab'

(make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, [idiom] fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, [idiom] marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.

Definition

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

Derivation

a primitive root;

Appears 1,075 times in Scripture

Genesis 4:16

So Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 11:31

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.

Genesis 11:2

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Genesis 13:7

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.

Genesis 4:20

Adah gave birth to Jabal; he was the father of those who dwell in tents and raise livestock.

Genesis 13:6

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.

Genesis 13:12

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot settled in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom.

Exodus 2:21

Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.

Zechariah 12:10

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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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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