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. Jeremiah 1:14 יֹשְׁבֵ֖י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Then Jehovah said unto me, Out of the north evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

  2. Jeremiah 2:6 יָשַׁ֥ב ya.Shav · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  3. Jeremiah 2:15 יֹשֵֽׁב׃ yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

  4. Jeremiah 3:2 יָשַׁ֣בְתְּ ya.Shavt · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by you

    Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

  5. Jeremiah 4:4 וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Circumcise yourselves to Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  6. Jeremiah 4:7 יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  7. Jeremiah 4:29 יוֹשֵׁ֥ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    Every city fleeth for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they go into the thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city is forsaken, and not a man dwelleth therein.

  8. Jeremiah 6:8 נוֹשָֽׁבָה׃ פ no.Sha.vah · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from thee; lest I make thee a desolation, a land not inhabited.

  9. Jeremiah 6:12 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And their houses shall be turned unto others, their fields and their wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith Jehovah.

  10. Jeremiah 8:1 יוֹשְׁבֵֽי־ yo.she.vei- · An -ing word: simple action

    At that time, saith Jehovah, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;

  11. Jeremiah 8:14 יֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.

  12. Jeremiah 8:16 וְיֹ֥שְׁבֵי ve.Yo.she.vei · An -ing word: simple action

    The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

  13. Jeremiah 9:6 שִׁבְתְּךָ֖ shiv.te.Kha · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

  14. Jeremiah 9:11 יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ ס yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

    And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

  15. Jeremiah 9:26 הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים hai.yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

  16. Jeremiah 10:17 יֹשֶׁ֖בֶת yo.shav.ti · An -ing word: simple action

    Gather up thy wares out of the land, O thou that abidest in the siege.

  17. Jeremiah 10:18 יוֹשְׁבֵ֥י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and will distress them, that they may feel it.

  18. Jeremiah 11:2 יֹשְׁבֵ֖י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

  19. Jeremiah 11:9 וּבְיֹשְׁבֵ֖י u.ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    And Jehovah said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  20. Jeremiah 11:12 וְיֹשְׁבֵי֙ ve.yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action

    Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry unto the gods unto which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

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