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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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  • Psalms 133:1
    A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
  • Psalms 137:1
    By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
  • Psalms 139:2
    Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
  • Psalms 140:13
    Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name: the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
  • Psalms 143:3
    For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
  • Proverbs 3:29
    Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
  • Proverbs 9:14
    For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
  • Proverbs 20:8
    A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
  • Proverbs 21:9
    It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
  • Proverbs 21:19
    It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.