Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
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.
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1 Kings 8:20 וָאֵשֵׁ֣ב va.'e.Shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me
And Jehovah hath established his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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1 Kings 8:25 יֹשֵׁ֖ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Now therefore, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that which thou hast promised him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
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1 Kings 8:27 יֵשֵׁ֥ב ye.Shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
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1 Kings 8:30 שִׁבְתְּךָ֙ shiv.te.Kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
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1 Kings 8:39 שִׁבְתֶּ֙ךָ֙ shiv.Te.kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render unto every man according to all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)
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1 Kings 8:43 שִׁבְתֶּ֔ךָ shiv.Te.kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
hear thou in heaven thy dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calleth to thee for; that all the peoples of the earth may know thy name, to fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
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1 Kings 8:49 שִׁבְתְּךָ֔ shiv.te.Kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven thy dwelling-place, and maintain their cause;
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1 Kings 9:16 הַיֹּשֵׁ֥ב hai.yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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1 Kings 11:16 יָֽשַׁב־ ya.shav- · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it
(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom);
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1 Kings 11:24 וַיֵּ֣שְׁבוּ vai.Ye.she.vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a troop, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt therein, and reigned in Damascus.
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1 Kings 12:2 וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt,
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1 Kings 12:17 הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים hai.yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action
But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
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1 Kings 12:25 וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and he went out from thence, and built Penuel.
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1 Kings 13:11 יֹשֵׁ֖ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them also they told unto their father.
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1 Kings 13:14 יֹשֵׁ֖ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
And he went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.
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1 Kings 13:20 יֹשְׁבִ֖ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet that brought him back;
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1 Kings 13:25 יֹשֵׁ֥ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.
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1 Kings 15:18 הַיֹּשֵׁ֥ב hai.yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants; and king Asa sent them to Ben-hadad, the son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
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1 Kings 15:21 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
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1 Kings 16:11 כְּשִׁבְתּ֣וֹ ke.shiv.To · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he smote all the house of Baasha: he left him not a single man-child, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.
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