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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Genesis 29:19 שְׁבָ֖ה she.Vah · A command to you: simple action
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
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Genesis 31:34 וַתֵּ֣שֶׁב va.Te.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel's saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
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Genesis 34:10 תֵּשֵׁ֑בוּ te.She.vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by all of you
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
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Genesis 34:10 שְׁבוּ֙ she.Vu · A command to all of you: simple action
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
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Genesis 34:16 וְיָשַׁ֣בְנוּ ve.ya.Shav.nu · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by us
then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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Genesis 34:21 וְיֵשְׁב֤וּ ve.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
These men are peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade therein; for, behold, the land is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our daughters.
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Genesis 34:22 לָשֶׁ֣בֶת la.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
Only on this condition will the men consent unto us to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
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Genesis 34:23 וְיֵשְׁב֖וּ ve.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by them
Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.
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Genesis 34:30 בְּיֹשֵׁ֣ב be.yo.Shev · An -ing word: simple action
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and, I being few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and smite me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
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Genesis 35:1 וְשֶׁב־ ve.shev- · A command to you: simple action
And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.
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Genesis 36:7 מִשֶּׁ֣בֶת mi.She.vet · The “to do” form of an action: simple action
For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
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Genesis 36:8 וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Esau dwelt in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
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Genesis 36:20 יֹשְׁבֵ֖י yo.she.Vei · An -ing word: simple action
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,
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Genesis 37:1 וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב vai.Ye.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land of Canaan.
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Genesis 37:25 וַיֵּשְׁבוּ֮ vai.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
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Genesis 38:11 שְׁבִ֧י she.Vi · A command to you: simple action
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
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Genesis 38:11 וַתֵּ֖שֶׁב va.Te.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up; for he said, Lest he also die, like his brethren. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
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Genesis 38:14 וַתֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ va.Te.shev · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And she put off from her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not given unto him to wife.
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Genesis 43:33 וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ vai.ye.she.Vu · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by them
And they sat before him, the first-born according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one with another.
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Genesis 44:33 יֵֽשֶׁב־ ye.shev- · An action: simple action, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it
Now therefore, let thy servant, I pray thee, abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.
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