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Strong's numbers

יָשַׁב (H3427)

yâshab

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, [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.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

יָשַׁב 1090 vb. sit, remain, dwell
Qal
1
a sit
b sit, sit down
c sit down
d sit = be set (as a jewel)
2
a remain, stay, tarry
b with special emphasis of qualifying phr.
3 dwell, have one’s abode
4 of a land or city, sit, abide, seated in its place, fig. for be inhabited
Niph. be inhabited, of land
Pi. and they shall set their encampments in thee
Hiph.
1 cause to sit
2 cause to abide
3
a cause to dwell
b cause cities to be inhabited
4 marry (prop. give a dwelling to)
Hoph. and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

980 occurrences

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  • Numbers 22:5
    He sent messengers therefore unto Balaam the son of Beor to Pethor, which is by the river of the land of the children of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me:
  • Numbers 22:8
    And he said unto them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring you word again, as the LORD shall speak unto me: and the princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
  • Numbers 22:19
    Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.
  • Numbers 25:1
    And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
  • Numbers 32:6
    And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
  • Numbers 32:17
    But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
  • Numbers 32:40
    And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
  • Numbers 33:40
    And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
  • Numbers 33:52
    Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
  • Numbers 33:53
    And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.