יָשַׁב

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)

Every occurrence

1. 2 Kings 1:9 יֹשֵׁב֙ yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

   Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. And he spake unto him, O man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

2. 2 Kings 2:2 שֵֽׁב־ shev- · A command to you: simple action

   And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

3. 2 Kings 2:4 שֵֽׁב־ shev- · A command to you: simple action

   And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me to Jericho. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they came to Jericho.

4. 2 Kings 2:6 שֵֽׁב־ shev- · A command to you: simple action

   And Elijah said unto him, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me to the Jordan. And he said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.

5. 2 Kings 2:18 יֹשֵׁ֣ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

   And they came back to him, while he tarried at Jericho; and he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

6. 2 Kings 4:13 יֹשָֽׁבֶת׃ yo.Sha.vet · An -ing word: simple action

   And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.

7. 2 Kings 4:20 וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died.

8. 2 Kings 4:38 יֹשְׁבִ֖ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

   And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

9. 2 Kings 6:1 יֹשְׁבִ֥ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

   And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

10. 2 Kings 6:2 לָשֶׁ֣בֶת la.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Let us go, we pray thee, unto the Jordan, and take thence every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. And he answered, Go ye.

11. 2 Kings 6:32 יֹשֵׁ֣ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

12. 2 Kings 6:32 יֹשְׁבִ֣ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

13. 2 Kings 7:3 יֹשְׁבִ֥ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?

14. 2 Kings 7:4 יָשַׁ֥בְנוּ ya.Shav.nu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by us

    If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.

15. 2 Kings 9:5 יֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of us all? And he said, To thee, O captain.

16. 2 Kings 10:30 יֵשְׁב֥וּ ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

    And Jehovah said unto Jehu, Because thou hast done well in executing that which is right in mine eyes, and hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.

17. 2 Kings 11:19 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And he took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Jehovah, and came by the way of the gate of the guard unto the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

18. 2 Kings 13:5 וַיֵּשְׁב֧וּ vai.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

    (And Jehovah gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as beforetime.

19. 2 Kings 13:13 יָשַׁ֣ב ya.Shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

20. 2 Kings 14:10 וְשֵׁ֣ב ve.Shev · A command to you: simple action

    Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

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