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יָשַׁב

ya.shavto dwellHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentVerb1,078 occurrences38 books973 verses

Definition

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
Traditional renderings: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, × marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָשַׁב:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,078 total
  1. 1 Kings 17:9וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֖ · and stay
    “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
  2. 1 Kings 17:19יֹשֵׁ֣ב · was staying
    But Elijah said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him from her arms, carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
  3. 1 Kings 19:4וַיֵּ֕שֶׁב · He sat down
    …while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
  4. 1 Kings 21:8הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים · lived
    Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.
  5. 1 Kings 21:9וְהוֹשִׁ֥יבוּ · and give
    In the letters she wrote: “Proclaim a fast and give Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
  6. 1 Kings 21:10וְ֠הוֹשִׁיבוּ · But seat
    But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ‘You have cursed both God and the king!’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”
  7. 1 Kings 21:11הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ · lived
    So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.
  8. 1 Kings 21:12וְהֹשִׁ֥יבוּ · and gave
    They proclaimed a fast and gave Naboth a seat of honor among the people.
  9. 1 Kings 21:13וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ · and sat
    And the two scoundrels came in and sat opposite Naboth, and these men testified against him before the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed both God and the king!” So they took him outside the city and stoned him to death.
  10. 1 Kings 22:1וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ · passed
    Then three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.
  11. 1 Kings 22:10יֹשְׁבִים֩ · were sitting
    Dressed in royal attire, the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gate of Samaria, with all the prophets prophesying before them.
  12. 1 Kings 22:19יֹשֵׁ֣ב · sitting
    Micaiah continued, “Therefore hear the word of the LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right and on His left.
  13. 2 Kings 1:9יֹשֵׁב֙ · who was sitting
    Then King Ahaziah sent to Elijah a captain with his company of fifty men. So the captain went up to Elijah, who was sitting on top of a hill, and said to him, “Man of God, the king declares, ‘Come down!’”
  14. 2 Kings 2:2שֵֽׁב־ · stay
    …and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
  15. 2 Kings 2:4שֵֽׁב־ · stay
    And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
  16. 2 Kings 2:6שֵֽׁב־ · stay
    And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to the Jordan.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.
  17. 2 Kings 2:18יֹשֵׁ֣ב · was staying
    When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
  18. 2 Kings 4:13יֹשָֽׁבֶת׃ · have a home
    …and Elisha said to Gehazi, “Now tell her, ‘Look, you have gone to all this trouble for us. What can we do for you? Can we speak on your behalf to the king or the commander of the army?’” “I have a home among my own people,” she replied.
  19. 2 Kings 4:20וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב · [the boy] sat
    After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
  20. 2 Kings 4:38יֹשְׁבִ֖ים · were sitting
    When Elisha returned to Gilgal, there was a famine in the land. As the sons of the prophets were sitting at his feet, he said to his attendant, “Put on the large pot and boil some stew for the sons of the prophets.”
  21. 2 Kings 6:1יֹשְׁבִ֥ים · meet
    Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, “Please take note that the place where we meet with you is too small for us.
  22. 2 Kings 6:2לָשֶׁ֣בֶת · to live
    Please let us go to the Jordan, where each of us can get a log so we can build ourselves a place to live there.” “Go,” said Elisha.
  23. 2 Kings 6:32יֹשֵׁ֣ב · was sitting; יֹשְׁבִ֣ים · were sitting
    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”
  24. 2 Kings 7:3יֹשְׁבִ֥ים · just sit
    Now there were four men with leprosy at the entrance of the city gate, and they said to one another, “Why just sit here until we die?
  25. 2 Kings 7:4יָשַׁ֥בְנוּ · we sit
    If we say, ‘Let us go into the city,’ we will die there from the famine in the city; but if we sit here, we will also die. So come now, let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they let us live, we will live; if they kill us, we will die.”
  26. 2 Kings 9:5יֹֽשְׁבִ֔ים · were sitting
    …and when he arrived, the army commanders were sitting there. “I have a message for you, commander,” he said. “For which of us?” asked Jehu. “For you, commander,” he replied.
  27. 2 Kings 10:30יֵשְׁב֥וּ · will sit
    Nevertheless, the LORD said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in carrying out what is right in My sight and have done to the house of Ahab all that was in My heart, four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  28. 2 Kings 11:19וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב · Then [Joash] took his seat
    He took with him the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace by way of the Gate of the Guards. Then Joash took his seat on the royal throne,
  29. 2 Kings 13:5וַיֵּשְׁב֧וּ · lived
    So the LORD gave Israel a deliverer, and they escaped the power of the Arameans. Then the people of Israel lived in their own homes as they had before.
  30. 2 Kings 13:13יָשַׁ֣ב · succeeded him
    And Jehoash rested with his fathers, and Jeroboam succeeded him on the throne. Jehoash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.
  31. 2 Kings 14:10וְשֵׁ֣ב · and stay
    You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Glory in that and stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  32. 2 Kings 15:5וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב · so that he lived
    And the LORD afflicted the king with leprosy until the day he died, so that he lived in a separate house while his son Jotham had charge of the palace and governed the people of the land.
  33. 2 Kings 15:12יֵשְׁב֥וּ · will sit
    So the word of the LORD spoken to Jehu was fulfilled: “Four generations of your sons will sit on the throne of Israel.”
  34. 2 Kings 16:6וַיֵּ֣שְׁבוּ · they live
    At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.
  35. 2 Kings 17:6וַיֹּ֨שֶׁב · where he settled
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
  36. 2 Kings 17:24וַיֹּ֙שֶׁב֙ · and settled them; וַיֵּֽשְׁב֖וּ · and lived
    Then the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites. They took possession of Samaria and lived in its towns.
  37. 2 Kings 17:25שִׁבְתָּ֣ם · lived
    Now when the settlers first lived there, they did not worship the LORD, so He sent lions among them, which killed some of them.
  38. 2 Kings 17:26וַתּ֙וֹשֶׁב֙ · and placed
    So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The peoples that you have removed and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Because of this, He has sent lions among them, which are indeed killing them off.”
  39. 2 Kings 17:27וְיֵ֣שְׁבוּ · to live
    Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.”
  40. 2 Kings 17:28וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב · and lived
    Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
  41. 2 Kings 17:29יֹשְׁבִ֖ים · had settled
    Nevertheless, the people of each nation continued to make their own gods in the cities where they had settled, and they set them up in the shrines that the people of Samaria had made on the high places.
  42. 2 Kings 18:27הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ · sitting
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  43. 2 Kings 19:15יֹשֵׁ֣ב · enthroned
    And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.
  44. 2 Kings 19:26וְיֹֽשְׁבֵיהֶן֙ · Therefore their inhabitants
    Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.
  45. 2 Kings 19:27וְשִׁבְתְּךָ֛ · your sitting down
    But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
  46. 2 Kings 19:36וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב · and stayed there
    So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
  47. 2 Kings 22:14יֹשֶׁ֥בֶת · lived
    So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  48. 2 Kings 22:16יֹֽשְׁבָ֑יו · its people
    …that this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring calamity on this place and on its people, according to all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,