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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. 2 Chronicles 6:18יֵשֵׁ֧ב · dwell
    But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  2. 2 Chronicles 6:21שִׁבְתְּךָ֙ · Your dwelling
    Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
  3. 2 Chronicles 6:30שִׁבְתֶּ֙ךָ֙ · Your dwelling
    …be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—
  4. 2 Chronicles 6:33שִׁבְתֶּ֔ךָ · Your dwelling
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You. Then all the peoples of the earth will know Your name and fear You, as do Your people Israel, and they will know that this house I have built is called by Your Name.
  5. 2 Chronicles 6:39שִׁבְתְּךָ֗ · Your dwelling
    …then may You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, their prayer and pleas, and may You uphold their cause. May You forgive Your people who sinned against You.
  6. 2 Chronicles 8:2וַיּ֥וֹשֶׁב · and settled
    Solomon rebuilt the cities Hiram had given him and settled Israelites there.
  7. 2 Chronicles 8:11תֵשֵׁ֨ב · live
    Solomon brought the daughter of Pharaoh up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her. For he said, “My wife must not live in the house of David king of Israel, because the places the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”
  8. 2 Chronicles 10:17הַיֹּֽשְׁבִ֖ים · living
    …but Rehoboam still reigned over the Israelites living in the cities of Judah.
  9. 2 Chronicles 11:5וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב · lived
    Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
  10. 2 Chronicles 15:5יוֹשְׁבֵ֖י · the residents
    In those days there was no safety for travelers, because the residents of the lands had many conflicts.
  11. 2 Chronicles 16:2הַיּוֹשֵׁ֥ב · who was ruling
    So Asa withdrew the silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent it with this message to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus:
  12. 2 Chronicles 18:9יוֹשְׁבִים֩ · were sitting; וְיֹשְׁבִ֣ים
    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.
  13. 2 Chronicles 18:18יוֹשֵׁ֣ב · 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 on His right and on His left.
  14. 2 Chronicles 19:4וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב · lived
    Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
  15. 2 Chronicles 19:10הַיֹּשְׁבִ֣ים · who dwell
    For every dispute that comes before you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards bloodshed or some other violation of law, commandments, statutes, or ordinances—you are to warn them, so that they will not incur guilt before the LORD and wrath will not come upon you and your brothers. Do this, and you will not incur guilt.
  16. 2 Chronicles 20:7יֹשְׁבֵי֙ · the inhabitants
    Our God, did You not drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it forever to the descendants of Abraham Your friend?
  17. 2 Chronicles 20:8וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ־ · They have lived
    They have lived in the land and have built in it a sanctuary for Your Name, saying,
  18. 2 Chronicles 20:15וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · you people
    And he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.
  19. 2 Chronicles 20:18וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · the people
    Then Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.
  20. 2 Chronicles 20:20וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · O people
    Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
  21. 2 Chronicles 20:23יֹשְׁבֵ֥י · the inhabitants; בְּיוֹשְׁבֵ֣י · the inhabitants
    The Ammonites and Moabites rose up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction. And when they had finished off the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
  22. 2 Chronicles 21:11יֹשְׁבֵ֣י · he had caused the people
    Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
  23. 2 Chronicles 21:13יֹשְׁבֵ֣י · and the people
    …but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
  24. 2 Chronicles 22:1יוֹשְׁבֵ֨י · Then the people
    Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
  25. 2 Chronicles 23:20וַיּוֹשִׁ֙יבוּ֙ · They seated
    And he took with him the commanders of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king down from the house of the LORD and entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate. They seated King Joash on the royal throne,
  26. 2 Chronicles 25:19שְׁבָ֣ה · stay
    You have said, ‘Look, I have defeated Edom,’ and your heart has become proud and boastful. Now stay at home. Why should you stir up trouble so that you fall—you and Judah with you?”
  27. 2 Chronicles 26:7הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים · living
    God helped him against the Philistines, against the Arabs living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunites.
  28. 2 Chronicles 26:21וַיֵּ֜שֶׁב · He lived
    So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace and governed the people of the land.
  29. 2 Chronicles 28:18וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ · and occupying
    The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.
  30. 2 Chronicles 30:25וְהַיּוֹשְׁבִ֖ים · and those who lived
    Then the whole assembly of Judah rejoiced along with the priests and Levites and the whole assembly that had come from Israel, including the foreigners who had come from Israel and those who lived in Judah.
  31. 2 Chronicles 31:4לְיוֹשְׁבֵ֣י · living
    Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
  32. 2 Chronicles 31:6הַיּֽוֹשְׁבִים֮ · who lived
    And the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things consecrated to the LORD their God, and they laid them in large heaps.
  33. 2 Chronicles 32:10וְיֹשְׁבִ֥ים · that you remain
    “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
  34. 2 Chronicles 32:22יֹשְׁבֵ֣י · and the people
    So the LORD saved Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from the hands of King Sennacherib of Assyria and all others, and He gave them rest on every side.
  35. 2 Chronicles 32:26וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · and the people
    Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.
  36. 2 Chronicles 32:33וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · and the people
    And Hezekiah rested with his fathers and was buried in the upper tombs of David’s descendants. All Judah and the people of Jerusalem paid him honor at his death. And his son Manasseh reigned in his place.
  37. 2 Chronicles 33:9וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · {led} the people
    So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  38. 2 Chronicles 34:9וְיֹשְׁבֵי · and from the people
    So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites who guarded the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, from all Judah and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
  39. 2 Chronicles 34:22יוֹשֶׁ֥בֶת · lived
    So Hilkiah and those the king had designated went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  40. 2 Chronicles 34:24יוֹשְׁבָ֑יו · 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 curses written in the book that has been read in the presence of the king of Judah,
  41. 2 Chronicles 34:27יֹ֣שְׁבָ֔יו · its people
    …because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
  42. 2 Chronicles 34:28יֹשְׁבָ֑יו · its people
    ‘Now I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the calamity that I will bring on this place and on its people.’” So they brought her answer back to the king.
  43. 2 Chronicles 34:30וְיֹשְׁבֵ֣י · the people
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people great and small—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  44. 2 Chronicles 34:32יֹשְׁבֵ֣י · So all the people
    Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
  45. 2 Chronicles 35:18וְיוֹשְׁבֵ֖י · and the people
    No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
  46. Ezra 2:70וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ · settled
    So the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants, along with some of the people, settled in their own towns; and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
  47. Ezra 4:6יֹשְׁבֵ֥י · the people
    At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, an accusation was lodged against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.
  48. Ezra 8:32וַנֵּ֥שֶׁב · and rested
    So we arrived at Jerusalem and rested there for three days.