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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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  • Job 2:13
    So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
  • Job 15:28
    And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.
  • Job 22:8
    But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.
  • Job 24:13
    They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
  • Job 29:25
    I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
  • Job 36:7
    He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.
  • Job 38:40
    When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
  • Psalms 1:1
    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
  • Psalms 2:4
    He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
  • Psalms 4:8
    I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.