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. Isaiah 37:27 וְיֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ ve.yo.she.vei.Hen · An -ing word: simple action

    Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of grain before it is grown up.

  2. Isaiah 37:28 וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ ve.shiv.te.Kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

  3. Isaiah 37:37 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  4. Isaiah 38:11 י֥וֹשְׁבֵי Yo.o.she.vei · An -ing word: simple action

    I said, I shall not see Jehovah, even Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  5. Isaiah 40:22 הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ hai.yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

  6. Isaiah 40:22 וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ ve.yo.she.Vei.ha · An -ing word: simple action

    It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

  7. Isaiah 40:22 לָשָֽׁבֶת׃ la.Sha.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

  8. Isaiah 42:7 יֹ֥שְׁבֵי Yo.she.vei · An -ing word: simple action

    to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

  9. Isaiah 42:10 וְיֹשְׁבֵיהֶֽם׃ ve.yo.she.vei.Hem · An -ing word: simple action

    Sing unto Jehovah a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

  10. Isaiah 42:11 תֵּשֵׁ֣ב te.Shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

  11. Isaiah 42:11 יֹ֣שְׁבֵי Yo.she.vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

  12. Isaiah 44:13 לָשֶׁ֥בֶת la.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    The carpenter stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with a pencil; he shapeth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compasses, and shapeth it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man, to dwell in a house.

  13. Isaiah 44:26 תּוּשָׁ֗ב tu.Shav · An action: being caused, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    that confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith of Jerusalem, She shall be inhabited; and of the cities of Judah, They shall be built, and I will raise up the waste places thereof;

  14. Isaiah 45:18 לָשֶׁ֣בֶת la.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    For thus saith Jehovah that created the heavens, the God that formed the earth and made it, that established it and created it not a waste, that formed it to be inhabited: I am Jehovah; and there is none else.

  15. Isaiah 47:1 וּשְׁבִ֣י u.she.Vi · A command to you: simple action

    Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

  16. Isaiah 47:1 שְׁבִי־ she.vi- · A command to you: simple action

    Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

  17. Isaiah 47:5 שְׁבִ֥י she.Vi · A command to you: simple action

    Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called The mistress of kingdoms.

  18. Isaiah 47:8 הַיּוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת hai.yo.She.vet · An -ing word: simple action

    Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

  19. Isaiah 47:8 אֵשֵׁב֙ 'e.Shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

    Now therefore hear this, thou that art given to pleasures, that sittest securely, that sayest in thy heart, I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

  20. Isaiah 47:14 לָשֶׁ֥בֶת la.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.

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