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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2 Samuel 14:28 וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem; and he saw not the king's face.
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2 Samuel 15:8 בְּשִׁבְתִּ֥י be.shiv.Ti · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.
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2 Samuel 15:8 יָשׁ֨וֹב ye.shov · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If Jehovah shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Jehovah.
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2 Samuel 15:19 וְשֵׁ֤ב ve.Shev · A command to you: simple action
Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return, and abide with the king: for thou art a foreigner, and also an exile; return to thine own place.
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2 Samuel 15:29 וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ vai.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.
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2 Samuel 16:3 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
And the king said, And where is thy master's son? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem; for he said, To-day will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
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2 Samuel 16:18 אֵשֵֽׁב׃ 'e.Shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me
And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom Jehovah, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.
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2 Samuel 18:24 יוֹשֵׁ֖ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Now David was sitting between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.
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2 Samuel 19:8 וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
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2 Samuel 19:8 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.
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