יָשַׁב
to dwell
also: remain, sit, abide fuller range ↓
H3427
Strong's Hebrew
yâshab
Transliteration
/yaw-shab'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
1,092
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
to dwell, remain, sit, abide
- (Qal)
- to sit, sit down
- to be set
- to remain, stay
- to dwell, have one's abode
- (Niphal) to be inhabited
- (Piel) to set, place
- (Hiphil)
- to cause to sit
- to cause to abide, set
- to cause to dwell
- to cause (cities) to be inhabited
- to marry (give an dwelling to)
- (Hophal)
- to be inhabited
- to make to dwell
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘sit on’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘cause to sit c. acc. pers. +’
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
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2 Kings 37 verses
- 2 Kings 2:4 שֵֽׁב Qal impv 2ms Elijah said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to Jericho. He said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Jericho.
- 2 Kings 2:6 שֵֽׁב Qal impv 2ms Elijah said to him, "Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me to the Jordan." He said, "As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you." They two went on.
- 2 Kings 2:18 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms They came back to him, while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, "Didn't I tell you, 'Don't go?'"
- 2 Kings 4:13 יֹשָֽׁבֶת Qal ptcp.act fs He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
- 2 Kings 4:20 וַ/יֵּ֧שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees until noon, and then died.
- 2 Kings 4:38 יֹשְׁבִ֖ים Qal ptcp.act mp Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.
- 2 Kings 6:1 יֹשְׁבִ֥ים Qal ptcp.act mp The sons of the prophets said to Elisha, See now, the place where we dwell before you is too strait for us.
- 2 Kings 6:2 לָ/שֶׁ֣בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Let us go, we pray you, to the Jordan, and take there every man a beam, and let us make us a place there, where we may dwell. He answered, Go you.
- 2 Kings 6:32 יֹשֵׁ֣ב יֹשְׁבִ֣ים Qal ptcp.act ms Qal ptcp.act mp But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; and [the king] sent a man from before him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See you how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? behold, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: isn't the sound of his master's feet behind him?
- 2 Kings 7:3 יֹשְׁבִ֥ים Qal ptcp.act mp Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate: and they said one to another, Why sit we here until we die?
- 2 Kings 7:4 יָשַׁ֥בְנוּ Qal pf 1cp If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there; and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall to the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.
- 2 Kings 9:5 יֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים Qal ptcp.act mp When he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain.
- 2 Kings 10:30 יֵשְׁב֥וּ Qal impf 3mp Yahweh said to Jehu, Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.
- 2 Kings 11:19 וַ/יֵּ֖שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
- 2 Kings 13:5 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֧וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp (Yahweh gave Israel a savior, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians; and the children of Israel lived in their tents as before.
- 2 Kings 13:13 יָשַׁ֣ב Qal pf 3ms Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat on his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
- 2 Kings 14:10 וְ/שֵׁ֣ב conj + Qal impv 2ms You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up: glory of it, and abide at home; for why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
- 2 Kings 15:5 וַ/יֵּ֖שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh struck the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house. Jotham the king's son was over the household, judging the people of the land.
- 2 Kings 15:12 יֵשְׁב֥וּ Qal impf 3mp This was the word of Yahweh which he spoke to Jehu, saying, Your sons to the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel. So it came to pass.
- 2 Kings 16:6 וַ/יֵּ֣שְׁבוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drove the Jews from Elath; and the Syrians came to Elath, and lived there, to this day.
- 2 Kings 17:24 וַ/יֹּ֨שֶׁב֙ וַ/יֵּֽשְׁב֖וּ conj + Hiphil wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.
- 2 Kings 17:25 שִׁבְתָּ֣/ם Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3mp So it was, at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they didn't fear Yahweh: therefore Yahweh sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
- 2 Kings 17:27 וְ/יֵ֣שְׁבוּ conj + Qal impf 3mp Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.
- 2 Kings 17:28 וַ/יֵּ֖שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 17:29 יֹשְׁבִ֖ים Qal ptcp.act mp However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.
- 2 Kings 18:27 הַ/יֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp But Rabshakeh said to them, Has my master sent me to your master, and to you, to speak these words? Hasn't he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?
- 2 Kings 19:15 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
- 2 Kings 19:26 וְ/יֹֽשְׁבֵי/הֶן֙ conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3fp 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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
- 2 Kings 19:27 וְ/שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֛ conj + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me.
- 2 Kings 19:36 וַ/יֵּ֖שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
- 2 Kings 22:14 יֹשֶׁ֥בֶת Qal ptcp.act fs So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter); and they talked with her.
- 2 Kings 22:16 יֹֽשְׁבָ֑י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.
- 2 Kings 22:19 יֹשְׁבָ֗י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 23:2 יֹשְׁבֵ֨י Qal ptcp.act mp cs The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Kings 25:24 שְׁב֣וּ Qal impv 2mp Gedaliah swore to them and to their men, and said to them, Don't be afraid because of the servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
1 Chronicles 40 verses
- 1 Chronicles 2:55 ישבו יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal pf 3cp Qal ptcp.act mp cs The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יָ֥שְׁבוּ conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Qal pf 3cp These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they lived with the king for his work.
- 1 Chronicles 4:28 וַ/יֵּֽשְׁב֛וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
- 1 Chronicles 4:40 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֥ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp They found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for those who lived there before were of Ham.
- 1 Chronicles 4:41 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp These written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and struck their tents, and the Meunim who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place; because there was pasture there for their flocks.
- 1 Chronicles 4:43 וַ/יֵּ֣שְׁבוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They struck the remnant of the Amalekites who escaped, and have lived there to this day.
- 1 Chronicles 5:8 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms and Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, even to Nebo and Baal Meon:
- 1 Chronicles 5:9 יָשַׁב֙ Qal pf 3ms and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:10 וַ/יֵּשְׁבוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the [land] east of Gilead.
- 1 Chronicles 5:11 יָֽשְׁב֛וּ Qal pf 3cp The sons of Gad lived over against them, in the land of Bashan to Salecah:
- 1 Chronicles 5:16 וַ/יֵּֽשְׁב֛וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.
- 1 Chronicles 5:22 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp For there fell many slain, because the war was of God. They lived in their place until the captivity.
- 1 Chronicles 5:23 יָשְׁב֖וּ Qal pf 3cp The children of the half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land: they increased from Bashan to Baal Hermon and Senir and Mount Hermon.
- 1 Chronicles 7:29 יָשְׁב֔וּ Qal pf 3cp and by the borders of the children of Manasseh, Beth-shean and its towns, Taanach and its towns, Megiddo and its towns, Dor and its towns. In these lived the children of Joseph the son of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 8:6 לְ/י֣וֹשְׁבֵי prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs These are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Geba, and they carried them captive to Manahath:
- 1 Chronicles 8:13 לְ/יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י י֥וֹשְׁבֵי prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Qal ptcp.act mp cs and Beriah, and Shema, who were heads of fathers' [houses] of the inhabitants of Aijalon, who put to flight the inhabitants of Gath;
- 1 Chronicles 8:28 יָשְׁב֥וּ Qal pf 3cp These were heads of fathers' [houses] throughout their generations, chief men: these lived in Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 8:29 יָשְׁב֖וּ Qal pf 3cp In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, [Jeiel], whose wife's name was Maacah;
- 1 Chronicles 8:32 יָשְׁב֥וּ Qal pf 3cp Mikloth became the father of Shimeah. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 9:2 וְ/הַ/יּוֹשְׁבִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Now the first inhabitants who lived in their possessions in their cities were Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the Nethinim.
- 1 Chronicles 9:3 יָשְׁב֔וּ Qal pf 3cp In Jerusalem lived of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin, and of the children of Ephraim and Manasseh:
- 1 Chronicles 9:16 הַ/יּוֹשֵׁ֖ב ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms and Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who lived in the villages of the Netophathites.
- 1 Chronicles 9:34 יָשְׁב֥וּ Qal pf 3cp These were heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men: these lived at Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 9:35 יָשְׁב֥וּ Qal pf 3cp In Gibeon there lived the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah:
- 1 Chronicles 9:38 יָשְׁב֥וּ Qal pf 3cp Mikloth became the father of Shimeam. They also lived with their brothers in Jerusalem, over against their brothers.
- 1 Chronicles 10:7 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that they fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and lived in them.
- 1 Chronicles 11:4 יֹשְׁבֵ֖י Qal ptcp.act mp cs David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 יֹשְׁבֵ֤י Qal ptcp.act mp cs The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, You shall not come in here. Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion; the same is the city of David.
- 1 Chronicles 11:7 וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it the city of David.
- 1 Chronicles 13:6 יוֹשֵׁ֥ב Qal ptcp.act ms David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits [above] the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
- 1 Chronicles 13:14 וַ/יֵּשֶׁב֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months: and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.
- 1 Chronicles 17:1 יָשַׁ֥ב יוֹשֵׁב֙ Qal pf 3ms Qal ptcp.act ms It happened, when David lived in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh [dwells] under curtains.
- 1 Chronicles 17:4 לָ/שָֽׁבֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Go and tell David my servant, Thus says Yahweh, You shall not build me a house to dwell in:
- 1 Chronicles 17:5 יָשַׁ֨בְתִּי֙ Qal pf 1cs for I have not lived in a house since the day that I brought up Israel, to this day, but have gone from tent to tent, and from [one] tent [to another].
- 1 Chronicles 17:16 וַ/יֵּ֖שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then David the king went in, and sat before Yahweh; and he said, Who am I, Yahweh God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?
- 1 Chronicles 19:5 שְׁב֣וּ Qal impv 2mp Then there went certain persons, and told David how the men were served. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Stay at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms It happened, at the time of the return of the year, at the time when kings go out [to battle], that Joab led forth the army, and wasted the country of the children of Ammon, and came and besieged Rabbah. But David stayed at Jerusalem. Joab struck Rabbah, and overthrew it.
- 1 Chronicles 22:18 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Isn't Yahweh your God with you? Hasn't he given you rest on every side? for he has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Yahweh, and before his people.
- 1 Chronicles 28:5 לָ/שֶׁ֗בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 29:23 וַ/יֵּ֣שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Solomon sat on the throne of Yahweh as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
2 Chronicles 47 verses
- 2 Chronicles 2:3 לָ/שֶׁ֥בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Solomon sent to Huram the king of Tyre, saying, As you dealt with David my father, and sent him cedars to build him a house in which to dwell, [even so deal with me].
- 2 Chronicles 6:2 לְ/שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֖ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever.
- 2 Chronicles 6:10 וָ/אֵשֵׁ֣ב conj + Qal wimpf 1cs Yahweh has performed his word that he spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 6:16 יוֹשֵׁ֖ב Qal ptcp.act ms Now therefore, Yahweh, the God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father that which you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your children take heed to their way, to walk in my law as you have walked before me.
- 2 Chronicles 6:18 יֵשֵׁ֧ב Qal impf 3ms But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built!
- 2 Chronicles 6:21 שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֙ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms Listen you to the petitions of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear from your dwelling-place, even from heaven; and when you hear, forgive.
- 2 Chronicles 6:30 שִׁבְתֶּ֨/ךָ֙ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms then hear from heaven, your dwelling-place and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of the children of men;)
- 2 Chronicles 6:33 שִׁבְתֶּ֔/ךָ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
- 2 Chronicles 6:39 שִׁבְתְּ/ךָ֗ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2ms then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, their prayer and their petitions, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.
- 2 Chronicles 8:11 תֵשֵׁ֨ב Qal impf 3fs Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her; for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of Yahweh has come.
- 2 Chronicles 10:17 הַ/יֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5 וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and built cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 15:5 יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י Qal ptcp.act mp cs In those times there was no peace to him who went out, nor to him who came in; but great vexations were on all the inhabitants of the lands.
- 2 Chronicles 16:2 הַ/יּוֹשֵׁ֥ב ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house of Yahweh and of the king's house, and sent to Ben Hadad king of Syria, who lived at Damascus, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 18:9 יוֹשְׁבִים֩ וְ/יֹשְׁבִ֣ים Qal ptcp.act mp conj + Qal ptcp.act mp Now the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah sat each on his throne, arrayed in their robes, and they were sitting in an open place at the entrance of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets were prophesying before them.
- 2 Chronicles 18:18 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms [Micaiah] said, Therefore hear you the word of Yahweh: I saw Yahweh sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left.
- 2 Chronicles 19:4 וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jehoshaphat lived at Jerusalem: and he went out again among the people from Beersheba to the hill-country of Ephraim, and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 19:10 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֣ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers: this do, and you shall not be guilty.
- 2 Chronicles 20:7 יֹשְׁבֵי֙ Qal ptcp.act mp cs Did not you, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it to the seed of Abraham your friend forever?
- 2 Chronicles 20:8 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They lived therein, and have built you a sanctuary therein for your name, saying,
- 2 Chronicles 20:15 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs and he said, Listen you, all Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you king Jehoshaphat: Thus says Yahweh to you, Don't be afraid you, neither be dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
- 2 Chronicles 20:18 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 20:20 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs They rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Yahweh your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י בְּ/יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.
- 2 Chronicles 21:11 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, and led Judah astray.
- 2 Chronicles 21:13 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and have made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the prostitute, like as the house of Ahab did, and also have slain your brothers of your father's house, who were better than yourself:
- 2 Chronicles 22:1 יוֹשְׁבֵ֨י Qal ptcp.act mp cs The inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his place; for the band of men who came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.
- 2 Chronicles 25:19 שְׁבָ֣/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h You say, Behold, you have struck Edom; and your heart lifts you up to boast: abide now at home; why should you meddle to [your] hurt, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?
- 2 Chronicles 26:7 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֥ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur Baal, and the Meunim.
- 2 Chronicles 26:21 וַ/יֵּ֜שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Uzziah the king was a leper to the day of his death, and lived in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Yahweh: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
- 2 Chronicles 28:18 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland, and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Soco with the towns of it, and Timnah with the towns of it, Gimzo also and the towns of it: and they lived there.
- 2 Chronicles 30:25 וְ/הַ/יּוֹשְׁבִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp All the assembly of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the assembly who came out of Israel, and the foreigners who came out of the land of Israel, and who lived in Judah, rejoiced.
- 2 Chronicles 31:4 לְ/יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Moreover he commanded the people who lived in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might give themselves to the law of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 31:6 הַ/יּֽוֹשְׁבִים֮ ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp The children of Israel and Judah, who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated to Yahweh their God, and laid them by heaps.
- 2 Chronicles 32:10 וְ/יֹשְׁבִ֥ים conj + Qal ptcp.act mp Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do you trust, that you abide the siege in Jerusalem?
- 2 Chronicles 32:22 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all [others], and guided them on every side.
- 2 Chronicles 32:26 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Yahweh didn't come on them in the days of Hezekiah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:33 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the ascent of the tombs of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honor at his death. Manasseh his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chronicles 33:9 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom Yahweh destroyed before the children of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 34:9 ו/ישבי conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs They came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and of the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 34:22 יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת Qal ptcp.act fs So Hilkiah, and they whom the king [had commanded], went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.
- 2 Chronicles 34:24 יוֹשְׁבָ֑י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, and on the inhabitants of it, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 34:27 יֹ֣שְׁבָ֔י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before God, when you heard his words against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, and have humbled yourself before me, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 34:28 יֹשְׁבָ֑י/ו Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the evil that I will bring on this place, and on the inhabitants of it. They brought back word to the king.
- 2 Chronicles 34:30 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs The king went up to the house of Yahweh, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Yahweh.
- 2 Chronicles 34:32 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs He caused all who were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand [to it]. The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 35:18 וְ/יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs There was no Passover like that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Ezra 7 verses
- Ezra 2:70 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.
- Ezra 4:6 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י Qal ptcp.act mp cs In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
- Ezra 8:32 וַ/נֵּ֥שֶׁב conj + Qal wimpf 1cp We came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.
- Ezra 9:3 וָ/אֵשְׁבָ֖/ה conj + Qal wimpf 1cs + sfx h When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.
- Ezra 9:4 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms Then were assembled to me everyone who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening offering.
- Ezra 10:9 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days; it was the ninth month, on the twentieth [day] of the month: and all the people sat in the broad place before the house of God, trembling because of this matter, and for the great rain.
- Ezra 10:16 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Nehemiah 18 verses
- Nehemiah 1:4 יָשַׁ֨בְתִּי֙ Qal pf 1cs It happened, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days; and I fasted and prayed before the God of heaven,
- Nehemiah 2:6 יוֹשֶׁ֣בֶת Qal ptcp.act fs The king said to me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.
- Nehemiah 3:13 וְ/יֹשְׁבֵ֣י conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs The valley gate repaired Hanun, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they built it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.
- Nehemiah 3:26 יֹשְׁבִ֖ים Qal ptcp.act mp (Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
- Nehemiah 4:12 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp It happened that when the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, You must return to us.
- Nehemiah 7:3 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs I said to them, Don't let the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand [on guard], let them shut the doors, and bar you them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, everyone in his watch, and everyone [to be] over against his house.
- Nehemiah 7:73 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
- Nehemiah 8:14 יֵשְׁב֨וּ Qal impf 3mp They found written in the law, how that Yahweh had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
- Nehemiah 8:17 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the assembly of those who were come again out of the captivity made booths, and lived in the booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the children of Israel had not done so. There was very great gladness.
- Nehemiah 9:24 יֹשְׁבֵ֤י Qal ptcp.act mp cs So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
- Nehemiah 11:1 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֥וּ לָ/שֶׁ֨בֶת֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp prep + Qal inf.cs The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the [other] cities.
- Nehemiah 11:2 לָ/שֶׁ֖בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs The people blessed all the men who willingly offered themselves to dwell in Jerusalem.
- Nehemiah 11:3 יָשְׁב֖וּ יָֽשְׁב֞וּ Qal pf 3cp Qal pf 3cp Now these are the chiefs of the province who lived in Jerusalem: but in the cities of Judah lived everyone in his possession in their cities, [to wit], Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.
- Nehemiah 11:4 יָֽשְׁב֔וּ Qal pf 3cp In Jerusalem lived certain of the children of Judah, and of the children of Benjamin. Of the children of Judah: Athaiah the son of Uzziah, the son of Zechariah, the son of Amariah, the son of Shephatiah, the son of Mahalalel, of the children of Perez;
- Nehemiah 11:6 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp All the sons of Perez who lived in Jerusalem were four hundred sixty-eight valiant men.
- Nehemiah 11:21 יֹשְׁבִ֣ים Qal ptcp.act mp But the Nethinim lived in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.
- Nehemiah 11:25 יָֽשְׁב֞וּ Qal pf 3cp As for the villages, with their fields, some of the children of Judah lived in Kiriath Arba and the towns of it, and in Dibon and the towns of it, and in Jekabzeel and the villages of it,
- Nehemiah 13:16 יָ֣שְׁבוּ Qal pf 3cp There lived men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the Sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Esther 9 verses
- Esther 1:2 כְּ/שֶׁ֣בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs that in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
- Esther 1:14 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִ֥ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),
- Esther 2:19 יֹשֵׁ֥ב Qal ptcp.act ms When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
- Esther 2:21 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those who kept the threshold, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 3:15 יָשְׁב֣וּ Qal pf 3cp The posts went forth in haste by the king's commandment, and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
- Esther 5:1 יוֹשֵׁ֞ב Qal ptcp.act ms Now it happened on the third day, that Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance of the house.
- Esther 5:13 יוֹשֵׁ֖ב Qal ptcp.act ms Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
- Esther 6:10 הַ/יּוֹשֵׁ֖ב ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.
- Esther 9:19 הַ/יֹּשְׁבִים֮ ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp Therefore do the Jews of the villages, who dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
Job 7 verses
- Job 2:8 יֹשֵׁ֥ב Qal ptcp.act ms He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
- Job 2:13 וַ/יֵּשְׁב֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Job 15:28 יֵ֣שְׁבוּ Qal impf 3mp He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.
- Job 22:8 יֵ֣שֶׁב Qal impf 3ms But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
- Job 24:13 יָ֝שְׁב֗וּ Qal pf 3cp "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.
- Job 29:25 וְ/אֵשֵׁ֪ב conj + Qal impf 1cs I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.
- Job 38:40 יֵשְׁב֖וּ Qal impf 3mp When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?
Psalms 52 verses
- Psalms 1:1 יָשָֽׁב Qal pf 3ms Blessed is the man who doesn't walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the way of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
- Psalms 2:4 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision.
- Psalms 9:4 יָשַׁ֥בְתָּ Qal pf 2ms For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
- Psalms 9:7 יֵשֵׁ֑ב Qal impf 3ms But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
- Psalms 9:11 יֹשֵׁ֣ב Qal ptcp.act ms cs Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, And declare among the people what he has done.
- Psalms 10:8 יֵשֵׁ֤ב Qal impf 3ms He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
- Psalms 17:12 יֹשֵׁ֥ב Qal ptcp.act ms He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, As it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 22:3 י֝וֹשֵׁ֗ב Qal ptcp.act ms cs But you are holy, You who inhabit the praises of Israel.
- Psalms 23:6 וְ/שַׁבְתִּ֥י conj + Qal wpf 1cs Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, And I shall dwell in Yahweh's house forever.
- Psalms 24:1 וְ/יֹ֣שְׁבֵי conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs The earth is Yahweh's, with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein.
- Psalms 26:4 יָ֭שַׁבְתִּי Qal pf 1cs I have not sat with deceitful men, Neither will I go in with hypocrites.
- Psalms 26:5 אֵשֵֽׁב Qal impf 1cs I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked.
- Psalms 27:4 שִׁבְתִּ֣/י Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, That I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, To see Yahweh's beauty, And to inquire in his temple.
- Psalms 29:10 יָשָׁ֑ב וַ/יֵּ֥שֶׁב Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, Yahweh sits as King forever.
- Psalms 33:8 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Let all the earth fear Yahweh. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
- Psalms 33:14 שִׁבְתּ֥/וֹ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Qal ptcp.act mp cs From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
- Psalms 47:8 יָשַׁ֤ב Qal pf 3ms God reigns over the nations. God sits on his holy throne.
- Psalms 49:1 יֹ֥שְׁבֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
- Psalms 50:20 תֵּ֭שֵׁב Qal impf 2ms You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
- Psalms 55:19 וְ/יֹ֤שֵׁ֥ב conj + Qal ptcp.act ms God, who is enthroned forever, Will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, Who don't fear God.
- Psalms 61:7 יֵשֵׁ֣ב Qal impf 3ms He shall be enthroned in God's presence forever. Appoint your loving kindness and truth, that they may preserve him.
- Psalms 65:8 יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs They also who dwell in far-away places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
- Psalms 68:10 יָֽשְׁבוּ Qal pf 3cp Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.
- Psalms 68:16 לְ/שִׁבְתּ֑/וֹ prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, At the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, Yahweh will dwell there forever.
- Psalms 69:12 יֹ֣שְׁבֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
- Psalms 69:25 יֹשֵֽׁב Qal ptcp.act ms Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.
- Psalms 69:35 וְ/יָ֥שְׁבוּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp For God will save Zion, and build the cities of Judah. They shall settle there, and own it.
- Psalms 75:3 יֹשְׁבֶ֑י/הָ Qal ptcp.act mp cs + sfx pers 3fs The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
- Psalms 80:1 יֹשֵׁ֖ב Qal ptcp.act ms cs Hear us, Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock, You who sit above the cherubim, shine forth.
- Psalms 83:7 יֹ֥שְׁבֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- Psalms 84:4 יוֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
- Psalms 91:1 יֹ֭שֵׁב Qal ptcp.act ms He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalms 98:7 וְ/יֹ֣שְׁבֵי conj + Qal ptcp.act mp cs Let the sea roar with its fullness; The world, and those who dwell therein.
- Psalms 99:1 יֹשֵׁ֥ב Qal ptcp.act ms Yahweh reigns! Let the peoples tremble. He sits enthroned among the cherubim. Let the earth be moved.
- Psalms 101:6 לָ/שֶׁ֪בֶת prep + Qal inf.cs My eyes will be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me. He who walks in a perfect way, He will serve me.
- Psalms 101:7 יֵשֵׁ֨ב Qal impf 3ms He who practices deceit won't dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won't be established before my eyes.
- Psalms 102:12 תֵּשֵׁ֑ב Qal impf 2ms But you, Yahweh, will abide forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
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ישב — transliterated yâshab — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to dwell.” The King James Version usually renders it “dwelt,” while modern versions prefer “lived” (Berean Standard Bible) and “dwellers of” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 977 verses in 38 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 4:16, it then recurs through the corpus. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 5 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
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Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
Strong's · 1890
abide
Modern gloss
to dwell
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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About this word
Strong's H3427 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 977
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 977 distinct verses.
- 38 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 38 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #36
- by frequency
- Top 50 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 36 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 977 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 574 verses · 59%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 227 verses · 23%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 176 verses · 18%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Dwelt 144×, Inhabitants 114×, Dwell 87×
- American Standard Version†: Dwelt 129×, Inhabitants 101×, Dwell 75×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Lived 76×, Live 62×, People 53×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Dwellers of 80×, Inhabitants of 43×, And 42×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3427 across 1,085† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 246 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3427 across 1,079† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 287 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3427 across 1,049† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 208 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 28 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3427 across 1,102† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 156 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
20 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 20 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
ישב I sit, remain, dwell (NH id.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. יָשַׁב Gn 13:12 +; 2 ms. יָשַׁבְתָּ Ju 5:16, וְיָשַׁבְתָּה בָ֑הּ consec. Dt 17:14; 2 mpl. יְשַׁבְתֶּם Dt 1:46 Lv 18:3, וִישַׁבְתֶּם consec. Lv 25:18 + 7 times, etc.; Impf. יֵשֵׁב 1 S 5:7 +, יֵשֶׁב־ Gn 44:33; Ez 44:3, יֵ֫שֶׁב before monosyll. 1 K 7:8; Jb 22:8; וַיֵּ֫שֶׁב Gn 4:16 +; וַיֵּשֵֽׁב Ru 4:1; 1 s. אֵשֵׁב Ju 6:18 +, וָאֵשֵׁב Dt 9:9 + 3 times + Ez 3:15b (but Co אשׁר Kt); אֵשְׁבָה 1 S 27:5; אֵשֵׁ֑בָה Is 49:20; וָאֵשְׁבָה Ez 9:3; 3 mpl. יֵשְׁבוּ Gn 47:4 +; 3 fpl. תישׁבנה Ez 35:9 Kt (i.e. תֵּישַׁבְנָה Ol§ 242 d Köi. 401), Qr תָּשׁוֹבְנָה (√ שׁוב), Co proposes תִּוָּשַׁבְנָה; 1 pl. נֵשֵׁב Je 42:13, 14, וַנֵּ֫שֶׁב Nu 20:15 + 5 times; Imv. ms. שֵׁב Gn 20:15 +, שֶׁב־ Gn 35:1; שְׁבָה Gn 27:19 +; fs. שְׁבִי Gn 38:11 +; mpl. שְׁבוּ Gn 22:5 +, etc.; Inf. abs. יָשֹׁב־ 1 S 20:5; cstr. שֶׁ֫בֶת 1 S 7:2 +; שָׁ֑בֶת Is 40:22 +; sf. שִׁבְתִּי 2 S 7:5 +, etc.; Pt. m. י(וֹ)שֵׁב Gn 4:20; 24:3 +, etc.; f. ישְׁבָה Na 3:8; י(וֹ)שֶׁבֶת Ju 4:5 +; י(וֹ)שָׁ֑בֶת Jos 2:5; 2 K 4:13; ישַׁבְתְּ֯י Je 22:23, י(וֹ)שֶׁבֶת֯י Je 10:17; La 4:21; Ez 27:3 (Kt preferable in all these, v. Ol§ 123 d Ges§ 90.3a); fpl. ישְׁבוֹת 1 S 27:8;— e.g. Genesis 13:12
- 1.
- a. sit on (עַל) a seat 1 S 20:25, stone Ex 17:12, teraphim Gn 31:34, couch 48:2 (all E), Ez 23:41, knees 2 K 4:20; throne Ex 11:5; 12:29 (J), Dt 17:18; 1 S 1:9; 4:13; 1 K 1:13, 17, 20 +, v. abs. infr.; of י׳, הַיּשֵׁב עַל־חוּג הָאָרֶץ Is 40:22; dust Is 47:1, ground (אֶרֶץ) Ez 26:16, ashes Jon 3:6 (these in token of humiliation); sit down by (עַל) a well Ex 2:15 or pool 2 S 2:13; c. אֶל 1 S 28:23; sit in (ב) house, street, doorway, assembly, etc. 2 S 7:1; Ju 19:15 Gn 38:14 (J), Je 15:17; 26:10 ψ 1:1 Ct 2:3 so Ez 31:6, 17 (fig.); of No of Amon (personif. city) הַוּשְׁבָה בַּיְאֹרִים Na 3:8 she who sate amid the rivers; c. לְ sit on to (pregn.) לָאָרֶץ Is 3:26; 47:1 La 2:10, לְכִסֵּא ψ 9:5, at, לְפֶתַח בית Pr 9:14, לִימִינוֹ(י) 1 K 2:19, ψ 110:1; לַמַּבּוּל ψ 29:10; c. לִפְנֵי Gn 43:33 (J), + שָׁם Ju 20:26; 21:2; 2 S 7:18 = 1 Ch 17:16; c. עִם 1 S 20:5 Pr 31:22; c. אֶת־ Je 16:8; Jb 2:13; c. תַּחַת Ju 6:11; Mi 4:4, וַיֵּשֶׁב תַּחְתֶּיהָ בַּצֵּל Jon 4:5; c. מִנֶּגֶד Gn 21:16(×2) (E), נֶגֶד Is 47:14, מִקֶּדֶם לָעִיר Jon 4:5; מִצַּד 1 S 20:25; Ru 2:14; c. acc. cogn. Ez 28:2; לִשְׁפֹּט Ex 18:13; Jo 4:12 (cf. ψ 9:5; Is 28:6); hence abs. of sitting as king or judge Ex 18:14 ψ 61:8 Mal 3:3, יושׁבים Is 10:13, perhaps Am 1:5, 8, especially of י׳ sitting (enthroned), ψ 2:4; 9:8; 29:10; 55:20; 102:13 La 5:19, so in ישֵׁב (הַ)כְּרוּבִים 1 S 4:4; 2 S 6:2 = 1 Ch 13:6, 2 K 19:15 ψ 99:1; ישֵׁב תְּהִלּוֹת יִשְׂרָאֵל ψ 22:4 (v. c. עַל, supr.); by meton. of thrones, for the judges sitting on them שָׁמָּה יָֽשְׁבוּ כִסְאוֹת לְמִשְׁפָּט ψ 122:5; הַיּשְׁבִים Ru 4:14, i.e. in the gate (cf. v 11), those in whose presence purchase of land took place. e.g. 1 Samuel 20:25
- b. sit, sit down, abs., Ju 19:6; Ru 4:1, 2; Ne 1:4; Je 36:15 (sq. cl. of purpose, to eat, etc.) Gn 37:25 Est 3:15 +; opp. קוּם Ex 32:6 (JE) ψ 139:2, מְאַחֲרֵי שֶׁבֶת ψ 127:2 (opp. מַשְׁכִּימֵי קוּם); so Is 37:28 = 2 K 19:27 (read לְפָנַי קֻמְךָ at end of v 27 = 2 K 19:26 We in BlEinl. 4, 257 RSProph. 351, and n. 9); but also קוּמִי שְׁבִי Is 52:2, expl. by (וַיָּקָם מֵהָאָרֶץ וַיֵּשֶׁב אֶל־הַמִּטָּה 1 S 28:23 and) 2 S 19:9. e.g. Judges 19:6
- c. sit down outside (חוּץ), i.e. perform a necessity of nature Dt 23:14. e.g. Deuteronomy 23:14
- d. sit = be set (as a jewel), ישְׁבוֹת עַל־מִלֵּאת Ct 5:12 set on a filling (i.e. in a setting, De al.), in description of eyes; (> others sitting by full streams). e.g. Song of Solomon 5:12
- 2.
- a. remain, stay, tarry (for a limited or indef. time), c. אֶת pers. Gn 24:55 (J), Ju 19:4; 2 S 16:8; c. עִם pers. Gn 27:44 (J), עִמָּדִי 29:19 (E), Ju 17:10; c. בְ loc. 1 S 7:2 (of ark), 13:16; 14:2; 24:4 (23:25 read אֲשֶׁר for וַיֵּשֶׁב 𝔊 We Dr Klo Kit Bu), 2 S 10:5; 19:25 (where read שִׁבְתּוֹ for שִׁיבָתוֹ Dr Klo Bu, v. We), Nu 35:25 (P), Jb 24:13; c. שָׁם 1 K 11:16, שָׁם עַד־עוֹלָם 1 S 1:22; c. על (by) 1 S 25:13; 30:24; פֹּה 2 K 7:4; שְׁבוּ לָכֶם פֹּה עִם־הַחֲמוֹר Gn 22:5 (E); c. בֵּין Ju 5:16, מִחוּץ לְ Lv 14:8 (P), אֵצֶל 1 S 20:19; c. acc. בית 2 S 6:11; 13:20; Ru 2:7; abs. 1 S 1:23(×2); abide, endure Mi 5:3, וִיהוּדָה לְעוֹלָם תֵּשֵׁב Jo 4:20, so of Mt. Zion ψ 121:1. e.g. Genesis 24:55
- b. with special emphasis on qualifying phr., וַתֵּשֶׁב בְּאֵיתָן קַשְׁתּוֹ Gn 49:24 and his bow abode as a firm one (poem in J); 1 K 22:1 and they continued three years without war; of woman remaining בִּדְמֵי טָהֳרָה Lv 12:4, על־דמי וגו׳ v 5. e.g. Genesis 49:24
- 3. dwell, have one’s abode in (ב) a land, city, house, etc., Gn 4:16; 13:7, 12(×2); 19:29; 24:37, 62; Dt 1:4; 3:2; Jos 20:6; 2 S 7:6 + often (on 2 S 21:16 v. ישׁבו בְנֹב, p. 444); in tents Je 35:7, 10; 1 Ch 5:10; fig. of justice (צְדָקָה) Is 32:16 (‖ וְשָׁכֵן מִשְׁפָּט); in the midst of (בְּקֶרֶב) Gn 24:3; Jos 13:13; 16:10; Ju 1:30, 32, 33; 3:5; so c. בְּתוֹךְ Gn 23:10 (P); c. עַל + הארץ, of God 1 K 8:27 = 2 Ch 6:18; of people Lv 25:18, 19; 26:35 (H); c. לְ Jb 15:28; c. בֵּין Gn 20:1 (E); dwell with (אֶת) Gn 34:16, 22 (P), Ex 2:21 (E), Jos 15:63 (JE), Ju 1:16, 21; 17:11; יֵשְׁבוּ יְשָׁרִים אֶת־פָּנֶיךָ ψ 140:14; so c. עִם Jos 20:4 Dt 23:17 (+ בקרב), ψ 26:4 (i.e. assoc. with); c. יַחְדָּו Gn 13:6(×2) (J), 36:7 (P), Dt 25:5; שֶׁבֶת גַּם־יָ֑חַד ψ 133:1; dwell in their stead (תַּחְתָּם) Dt 2:12, 21, 22, 23; 1 Ch 4:41; 5:22; abs. לָשֶׁבֶת יְצָרָהּ Is 45:18 for dwelling he formed it (the earth); (thy) dwelling-place is מְקוֹם שִׁבְתְּךָ 1 K 8:30 = 2 Ch 6:21, also מְכוֹן שׁ׳ 1 K 8:39, 43, 49 = 2 Ch 6:30, 33, 39, so ψ 33:14; מָכוֹן לְשׁ׳ Ex 15:17 1 K 8:13 = 2 Ch 6:2. Pt. ישֵׁב = subst., dweller, inhabitant, very often (c. 215 times): e.g. ישֵׁב אהלים Gn 25:27 (J); often coll. ישֵׁב אהל Gn 4:20 (J), ישׁב הָאָרֶץ 34:30; 50:11 (both J), Ex 34:12, 15 (JE); also poet. f., (as coll.; v. Dr on 1 S 17:21) יוֹשֶׁבֶת שָׁפִיר etc., Mi 1:11(×2), 12, 13, 15; יוֹשֶׁבֶת צִיּוֹן †Is 12:6; Je 51:35; similarly †10:17; 21:13; 22:23; 48:19; cf. La 4:21) Zc 2:11; with בת in app. (Da§ 28 R. 6), יוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּת־מִצְרַיִם †Je 46:19, so 48:18; more usually pl. ישְׁבֵי הֶעָרִים Gn 19:25 (J), cf. Dt 13:14; ישְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ Ex 23:21 (JE), cf. Ex 15:14, 15 (poem in E); ישְׁבֵי תֵבֵל Is 18:3, יוֹשְׁבֵי חָ֑דֶל 38:11, etc.; ישְׁבֶיהָ Lv 18:25; 25:10 (H), Nu 13:32 (P); abs. יוֹשֵׁב (coll.) Am 1:5, 8; Is 49:19; הַיּוֹשְׁבִים 1 Ch 9:2; also (strangely) ישְׁבוֹת הארץ 1 S 27:8 = the populations of the land We Dr (elsewhere in this sense only fs. and poet., v. supr.); freq. in phr. without inhabitant (i.e. so that there shall be no inhab.), מֵאֵין ישׁב Is 5:9; 6:4; Je 4:7; 26:9; 33:10; 34:22; 44:22; 46:19; 51:29, 37; Zp 2:5; 3:6; מֵאֵין יוֹשֵׁב בָּהֶן Je 48:9; מִבְּלִי ישֵׁב 2:15; 9:10; לֹא יִהְיֶה יוֹשֵב בָּהּ 50:3; לְבִלְתִּי הֱיוֹת־בּוֹ יוֹשֵׁב 51:62. e.g. Genesis 4:16
- 4. of a land or city, sit, abide seated in its place, fig. for be inhabited Je 17:6, 25; 50:13, 39; Ez 26:20; 29:11; 36:35; Is 13:20 (‖ לֹא תִּשְׁכּוֹן), Zc 2:8; 9:5; 14:11; יָֽשְׁבָה תַּחְתֶּיהָ 12:6; 14:10; Ez 35:9; Kt is תישׁבנה, Qr תָּשׁוֹבְנָה; Co תושׁבנה, i.e. Niph. תִּוָּשַׁבְנָה (cf. 36:10), or Hoph. תּוּשַׁבְנָה (cf. Is 44:26); of palace, וְאַרְמוֹן עַל־מִשְׁפָּטוֹ יֵשֵׁב Je 30:18. e.g. Jeremiah 17:6
Niphal
- Pf. 3 fs. נוֹשָׁ֑בָה Je 6:8; 3 pl. וְנֽשְׁבוּ consec. Ez 36:10, נוֹשָׁ֑בוּ Ez 26:19, נוֹשָׁ֑בֻ֯ה Je 22:6; Pt. f. נוֹשֶׁבֶת Ez 26:17 (נִשְׁבַּתְּ 𝔊 Co, √ שׁבת), נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת Ex 16:35; pl. נוֹשָׁבוֹת Ez 12:20; 38:12;—be inhabited, of land Ex 16:35 (perhaps = be habitable), Je 6:3; of cities Je 22:6 Ez 12:20; 26:19; 36:10; חֳרָבוֹת נוֹשָׁבוֹת Ez 38:12;—Ez 26:17 v. supr.; 35:9 v. Qal 4. e.g. Jeremiah 6:8
Piel
- Pf. 3 mpl. וְיִשְּׁבוּ טִירוֹתֵיהֶם בָּ֑ךְ Ez 25:4 and they shall set their encampments in thee (𝔊 𝔖 Co וְיֵשְׁבוּ inhabit). e.g. Ezekiel 25:4
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הֹשִׁיב Ezr 10:14, sf. הוֹשִׁיבַנִי La 3:6 ψ 143:3; 1 s. הוֹשַׁבְתִּי Lv 23:33, וְה(וֹ)שַׁבְתִּים consec. Ho 11:11; Je 32:37; וְהוֹשְׁבוֹתִים consec. Zc 10:6 (Köi, 413; but prob. text error, vid. Thes and GesLgb 464; read prob. וַהֲשִׁבוֹתִים as v 10, so StaZAW, 1881, 21 We), etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיּוֹשֵׁב Gn 47:11, וַיּוֹ֫שֶׁב 2 Ch 8:2 ψ 107:36; sf. וַיּוֹשִׁיבַי֯נִי 1 K 2:24 (Köi, 414, 224); וַיּשִׁיבֵם Jb 36:7; 1 pl. וַנּ֫שֶׁב Ezr 10:2, etc.; Imv. ms. הוֹשֵׁב Gn 47:6; mpl. ה(וֹ)שִׁיבוּ 1 K 21:9, 10; Inf. cstr. ה(וֹ)שִׁיב 1 S 2:8; Ne 13:27; הוֹשִׁיבִי ψ 113:8 (Ol§ 123 d; read -בוֹ, v. Che); Pt. abs. מוֹשִׁיב ψ 68:7, cstr. מוֹשִׁיבִי ψ 113:9 (Oll.c. Gesl.c.);— e.g. Ezra 10:14
- 1. cause to sit c. acc. pers. + על כסא 1 K 2:24; 2 Ch 23:20 so (without על כסא) + לָנֶצַח Jb 36:7; set, place c. acc. pers. + נֶגְדּוֹ 1 K 21:10, also v 9, 12 (בְּרֹאשׁ הָעָם). e.g. 1 Kings 2:24
- 2. cause to abide (acc. pers.) at (ב) 1 S 30:21. e.g. 1 Samuel 30:21
- 3.
- a. cause to dwell, c. acc. pers. + ב loc. 1 S 12:8; 2 K 17:6 Ho 12:10, Gn 47:6, 11 (P), Lv 23:43 (H), La 3:6 ψ 143:3; בְּאֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּיּוֹת Ez 26:20; acc. pers. om. 2 K 17:24, 26; acc. pers. + שָׁם 2 Ch 8:2 ψ 107:36; acc. pers. + עַל־הַבָּתִּים Ho 11:11 (but read וַהֲשִׁבֹתִים We); acc. pers. om., c. עם pers. 1 S 2:8 ψ 113:8; מוֹשִׁיב יְחִידִים בַּ֫יְתֶה ψ 68:7 causing solitary ones to dwell in a house (or is מוֹשִׁיב for מֵשִׁיב Bae?); c. acc. pers. only מושׁ׳ עֲקֶרֶת הַבַּיִת ψ 113:9 giving a dwelling to her that is barren of house; abs. c. לָבֶ֫טַח Je 32:37 ψ 4:9; abs. c. כְּקַדְמוֹתֵיכֶם Ez 36:11. On Zc 10:6, v. supr. e.g. 1 Samuel 12:8
- b. cause cities (עָרִים) to be inhabited Ez 36:33; Is 54:3. e.g. Ezekiel 36:33
- 4. marry (proposes give a dwelling to, cf. ψ 113:9), only Ezr Ne, and only c. acc. נָשִׁים נָכְרִיּוֹת strange or foreign women Ezr 10:2, 10, 14, 17, 18 Ne 13:27; so הֹשִׁיבוּ נָשִׁים אַשְׁדֳּו֯רִיּוֹת Ne 13:23. e.g. Psalms 113:9
Hophal
- Pf. וְהוּשַׁבְתֶּם לְבַדְּכֶם בְּקֶרֶב הָאָ֑רֶץ Is 5:8 and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land. Impf. הָאֹמֵר לִירוּשָׁלַם תּוּשָׁ֑ב Is 44:26 he who saith of Jerusalem, she shall be inhabited. Ez 35:9 v. Qal 4. e.g. Isaiah 5:8
ישב II m. usually Ιασουβ
- 1. in Issachar Nu 26:24 (P) 1 Ch 7:1 Qr (Kt ישיב). e.g. Numbers 26:24
- 2. one with foreign wife Ezr 10:29.—Is 7:3 v. שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב. e.g. Ezra 10:29
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. vb. sit, remain, dwell (NH id.; Aramaic יְתֵיב, ܝܺܬܶܒ; MI10.31 ישב, l8. 19 וישב, l13 ואשב, dwell; Ph. ישב dwell; Zinj. ישב sit DHMSendsch. 58; Assyrian ašâbu, sit, dwell, DlHWB 244; Arabic وَثَبَ leap, jump, Ḥimyer. dial. sit, Lane2919; Ethiopic አውሰበ ii. i secum cohabitare facere, marry, consummate marriage, cf. Hiph. 4)—
II. n.pr.m. usually Ιασουβ;—
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Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָשַׁב
- (b. h.)
- 1. to sit down, rest; to dwell, remain; to be inactive. Macc. III, 15 כל חיוֹשֵׁב ולא עבר וכ׳ whoever is inactive and commits no sin, i.e. omits to do wrong; Kidd. 39ᵇ.—Erub. 100ᵃ שֵׁב ואל תעשה עדיף ‘sit and do nothing’, i.e. not to act in doubtful cases, is better, opp. קום ועשה. Ber. 20ᵃ שב ואל תעשה שאני with an omission it is different. Tosef. Snh. VII, 8 ולא יֵשְׁבוּ … להם שֵׁבוּ and they must not sit down until he says to them, Be seated; Hor. 13ᵇ; Y. Bicc. III, 65ᶜ bot.—Y. Dem. II, 23ᵃ top שי׳ בישיבח who has a seat in the scholars’ meetings. Snh. 10ᵇ; Tosef. ib. II, 1 אחד אומר לֵישֵׁב if one is in favor of sitting (holding deliberation in court). Zeb. II, 1 יוֹשֵׁב in a sitting position. Ber. 28ᵇ מיוֹשְׁבֵי בה"מ one of the attendants at college, יושבי קרנות those placed at street corners (traders, idlers). Gen. R. s 75 יושבי קרנות (corr. קרונות) sitting in chariots; a. v. fr.
- 2. to be settled (v. יִישּׁוּב), be inhabited. Num. R. s. 4 הגבעה … יוֹשְׁבִים Gibeah and Kiryath Jearim were settled at the same time.—Erub. 86ᵃ (ref. to Ps. LXI, 8) אימתי יושב עולם לפני וכ׳ (Rashi a. Ar. יֵשֵׁב) when is the world settled (evenly balanced) before God? When kindness and truth are appointed to guard it (differ. in Rashi; v. infra). e.g. Psalms 61:8
- 1. to settle, put in place, to arrange evenly. Y. Sabb. XII, beg. 13ᶜ הבנאי י׳ את האבן וכ׳ the builder that placed a stone on top of the row (v. דִּימוֹס I). Ib.ᵈ top; Y. Pes. VIII, 33ᵇ top מפני שהוא כמְיַישֵּׁב בידו because it is like settling the web with one’s own hand. Lev. R. s. 37 [read:] יָשַׁב וְיִ׳ להם סבלותם וכ׳ he sat down (as a judge) and arranged their burdens in proper proportions between man and woman. Ib. אתה עתיד ליַישֵּׁב וכ׳ thou art designated to settle and explain to my children their vows &c. Ex. R. s. 31 (ref. to Ps. LXI, 8, v. supra) יַשֵּׁב עולמך make thy world evenly balanced (as to property); Tanḥ. Mishp. 9 תיישר עולמך בשוה (read: תְּיַישֵּׁב). Ex. R. s. 52 לא היו יודעין ליַישְּׁבוֹ they knew not how to put its parts together; a. fr.—Trnsf. to set the mind at ease, to quiet. Sabb. 87ᵃ דברים שמְיַישְּׁבִין לבו וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שמושכין) words which quiet the mind of man &c.; Gen. R. s. 80 דברים שמְיַישְּׁבִים את הלב. Y. Pes. V, end, 32ᵈ (expl. וישב, II Sam. VII, 18) וַיַישֶּׁב עצמו לתפלה he quieted his mind for prayer; a. e. e.g. Psalms 61:8
- 2. to settle, cultivate, populate. Ber. 58ᵇ … עתיד להחזירו וליַישְּׁבוֹ Ms. M. (ed. ליִישּׁוּבוֹ) the Lord will again people it. Sot. 22ᵃ מְיַישְּׁבֵי עולם cultivators of the world.—Part. pass. מְיוּשָּׁב, f. מְיוּשֶּׁבֶת a) seated. Meg. 21ᵃ. Y. Gitt. VII, 48ᵈ top; a. fr.—b) sedate, at ease. Y. Ber. IV, 8ᵇ bot. לבו מי׳ his mind is at ease (about his animal); Bab. Ber. 30ᵃ לפי שאין דעתו מי׳ עליו because his mind is not at ease without it. Sifré Num. 131 היה … בקי ומי׳ the polemarch was experienced and cool-headed; a. fr.
- to seat, place, appoint; to settle. Yoma 38ᵃ sq.; Tosef. ib. II, 7 במקומך יוֹשִׁיבוּךָ people will finally seat thee in the place which thou deservest. Tosef. Sabb. VI (VII), 17 (among superstitious practices) חמוֹשֶׁבֶת אפרוחים (ו)אמרה איני מוֹשַׁבְתָּן וכ׳ a woman who sets hens to brood and says I will not set them except in pairs (v. ed. Zuck. note). Snh. IV, 4 מוֹשִׁיבִין אותו וכ׳ a seat is assigned to him in the third row. Macc. 10ᵃ ואין מוֹשִׁיבִין אותם וכ׳ and we must not lay them out except on a river; (Tosef. ib. III (II), 8 בונין).—Tosef. l. c. מביאין … ומושיבין וכ׳ other people are imported and settled in their place. B. Kam. 16ᵇ bot. הוֹשִׁיבוּ ישיבה וכ׳ they held scholars’ meetings by his grave. Snh. 17ᵃ אין מושיבין בסנהדרי וכ׳ none can be appointed members of the Sanhedrin except &c.; a. v. fr.
- to be inhabited. Pirké d’R. El. ch. XLIII ארץ נוֹשֶׁבֶת an inhabited land, settlement; (Koh. R. to I, 15 יִישּׁוּכ).
- , Nithpa. נִתְיַישֵּׁב
- 1. to be settled, colonized. Ber. 31ᵃ כל ארץ שגזר … ליישוב נִתְיַישְּׁבָה every land which Adam designated for settlement, has been settled.
- 2. to be at ease, to be refreshed, to come to. Yoma 82ᵃ אם נִתְיַשְּׁבָה דעתה if she feels that her craving has been gratified. Lam. R. to I, 11 (ref. to להשיב נפש, ib.) עד כמה מִתְיַישֶּׁבֶת נפש how much is required for one fainting from hunger (v. בּוֹלִימוֹס) to come to himself again?—Ḥag. 3ᵇ לאחר שנתיישבה דעתו after his excitement had subsided. Erub. 65ᵃ כל המתיישב ביינו he who remains clear-minded when drinking wine. Kinnim III, 6 כל זמן … דעתם מתישבת עליהם the older they grow, the more clear-minded do they become, opp. מיטרפת; a. fr.
יְשַׁב
- Ithpa. אִתְיַישַּׁב, contr. אִיַּישַּׁב as preced. Hithpa. 2. Ber. 58ᵇ חזייה דלא מִיַּישְּׁבָא דעתיה ed. (Ms. מִתְיַישְּׁבָא) he saw that he was not comforted.—V. יְתֵב.
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Forms in the corpus
The 481 distinct written forms H3427 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 421 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3427, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- יתב yᵉthib H3488 to sit
- מושב môwshâb H4186 dwelling place
- שבת shebeth H7675 seat
- שיבה shîybâh H7871 sojourn
- תושב tôwshâb H8453 sojourner
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יושביה Yôwshibyâh H3143 Josibiah
- ישבאב Yeshebʼâb H3428 Jeshebeab
- ישב בשבת Yôshêb bash-Shebeth H3429 Josheb-basshebeth
- ישבו בנב Yishbôw bᵉ-Nôb H3430 Ishbi-benob
- ישבקשה Yoshbᵉqâshâh H3436 Joshbekashah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 908 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 977 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 4:16
- Exodus 2:15
- Leviticus 8:35
- Numbers 13:18
- Deuteronomy 1:4
- Joshua 1:14
- Judges 1:9
- Ruth 1:4
- 1 Samuel 1:9
- 2 Samuel 1:1
- 1 Kings 1:13
- 2 Kings 1:9
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
