יָשַׁב

ya.shav · to dwell

Hebrew · Strong's H3427 · Verb · Sounds like: yaw-shab' · 1,079 occurrences

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.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (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

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:26 וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

  2. 2 Chronicles 32:33 וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

  3. 2 Chronicles 33:9 וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Jehovah destroyed before the children of Israel.

  4. 2 Chronicles 34:22 יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת yo.She.vet · An -ing word: simple action

    So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spake to her to that effect.

  5. 2 Chronicles 34:24 יוֹשְׁבָ֑יו yo.she.Vav · An -ing word: simple action

    Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.

  6. 2 Chronicles 34:27 יֹ֣שְׁבָ֔יו yo.she.Vav · An -ing word: simple action

    because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

  7. 2 Chronicles 34:28 יֹשְׁבָ֑יו yo.she.Vav · An -ing word: simple action

    Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof. And they brought back word to the king.

  8. 2 Chronicles 34:30 וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

  9. 2 Chronicles 34:32 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

  10. 2 Chronicles 35:18 וְיוֹשְׁבֵ֖י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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