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. Leviticus 25:19 וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם vi.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    And the land shall yield its fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety.

  2. Leviticus 26:5 וִֽישַׁבְתֶּ֥ם vi.shav.Tem · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by all of you

    And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

  3. Leviticus 26:32 הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים hai.yo.she.Vim · An -ing word: simple action

    And I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein shall be astonished at it.

  4. Leviticus 26:35 בְּשִׁבְתְּכֶ֥ם be.shiv.te.Khem · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

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