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. Job 2:8 יֹשֵׁ֥ב yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action

   And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

2. Job 2:13 וַיֵּשְׁב֤וּ vai.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them

   So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

3. Job 15:28 יֵ֣שְׁבוּ Ye.she.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

   And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

4. Job 22:8 יֵ֣שֶׁב Ye.shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

   But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; And the honorable man, he dwelt in it.

5. Job 24:13 יָ֝שְׁב֗וּ ya.she.Vu · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

   These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

6. Job 29:25 וְאֵשֵׁ֪ב ve.'e.Shev · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by me

   I chose out their way, and sat as chief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

7. Job 36:7 וַיֹּשִׁיבֵ֥ם vai.yo.shi.Vem · An action: causing it, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

   He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: But with kings upon the throne He setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.

8. Job 38:40 יֵשְׁב֖וּ ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them

   When they couch in their dens, And abide in the covert to lie in wait?

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