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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. Jeremiah 31:24וְיָ֥שְׁבוּ · will dwell
    And Judah and all its cities will dwell together in the land, the farmers and those who move with the flocks,
  2. Jeremiah 32:12הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים · sitting
    …and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.
  3. Jeremiah 32:32וְיֹשְׁבֵ֖י · and the residents
    …because of all the evil the children of Israel and of Judah have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their officials, their priests and prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
  4. Jeremiah 32:37וְהֹשַׁבְתִּ֖ים · and make them dwell
    I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.
  5. Jeremiah 33:10יוֹשֵׁ֖ב · inhabited
    This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
  6. Jeremiah 33:17יֹשֵׁ֖ב · to sit
    For this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
  7. Jeremiah 34:22יֹשֵֽׁב׃פ · inhabitant
    Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
  8. Jeremiah 35:7תֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ · you must live
    Nor are you ever to build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Instead, you must live in tents all your lives, so that you may live a long time in the land where you wander.’
  9. Jeremiah 35:9לְשִׁבְתֵּ֑נוּ · in which to live
    Nor have we built houses in which to live, and we have not owned any vineyards or fields or crops.
  10. Jeremiah 35:10וַנֵּ֖שֶׁב · But we have lived
    But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
  11. Jeremiah 35:11וַנֵּ֖שֶׁב · So we have remained
    So when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
  12. Jeremiah 35:13וּלְיֽוֹשְׁבֵ֖י · and the residents
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 35:15וּשְׁבוּ֙ · Live
    Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
  14. Jeremiah 35:17יֽוֹשְׁבֵי֙ · the residents
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
  15. Jeremiah 36:12יֽוֹשְׁבִ֑ים · were sitting
    …he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace, where all the officials were sitting: Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.
  16. Jeremiah 36:15שֵׁ֣ב · sit down
    “Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
  17. Jeremiah 36:22יוֹשֵׁב֙ · was sitting
    Since it was the ninth month, the king was sitting in his winter quarters with a fire burning before him.
  18. Jeremiah 36:30יוֹשֵׁ֖ב · one to sit
    Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.
  19. Jeremiah 36:31יֹשְׁבֵ֨י · the residents
    I will punish him and his descendants and servants for their iniquity. I will bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah, all the calamity about which I warned them but they did not listen.”
  20. Jeremiah 37:16וַיֵּֽשֶׁב־ · and remained
    So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.
  21. Jeremiah 37:21וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב · remained
    So King Zedekiah gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the street of the bakers, until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
  22. Jeremiah 38:2הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ · Whoever stays
    “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
  23. Jeremiah 38:7יוֹשֵׁ֖ב · was sitting
    Now Ebed-melech the Cushite, a court official in the royal palace, heard that Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Gate of Benjamin,
  24. Jeremiah 38:13וַיֵּ֣שֶׁב · remained
    …and they pulled him up with the ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
  25. Jeremiah 38:28וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב · remained
    And Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
  26. Jeremiah 39:3וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ · and sat
    Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
  27. Jeremiah 39:14וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב · So [Jeremiah] remained
    …had Jeremiah brought from the courtyard of the guard, and they turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So Jeremiah remained among his own people.
  28. Jeremiah 40:5וְשֵׁ֤ב · and stay
    But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
  29. Jeremiah 40:6וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב · and stayed
    So Jeremiah went to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.
  30. Jeremiah 40:9שְׁב֣וּ · Live
    Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
  31. Jeremiah 40:10יֹשֵׁב֙ · stay; וּשְׁב֖וּ · and live
    As for me, I will stay in Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine grapes, summer fruit, and oil, place them in your storage jars, and live in the cities you have taken.”
  32. Jeremiah 41:17וַיֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ · and stayed
    And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt
  33. Jeremiah 42:10תֵּֽשְׁבוּ֙ · you will indeed stay
    ‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will build you up and not tear you down; I will plant you and not uproot you, for I will relent of the disaster I have brought upon you.
  34. Jeremiah 42:13נֵשֵׁ֖ב · stay
    But if you say, ‘We will not stay in this land,’ and you thus disobey the voice of the LORD your God,
  35. Jeremiah 42:14נֵשֵֽׁב׃ · and live
    …and if you say, ‘No, but we will go to the land of Egypt and live there, where we will not see war or hear the sound of the ram’s horn or hunger for bread,’
  36. Jeremiah 42:18יֹֽשְׁבֵי֙ · the residents
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
  37. Jeremiah 43:4לָשֶׁ֖בֶת · to stay
    So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces disobeyed the command of the LORD to stay in the land of Judah.
  38. Jeremiah 44:1הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים · living; הַיֹּשְׁבִ֤ים
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews living in the land of Egypt—in Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis—and in the land of Pathros:
  39. Jeremiah 44:2יוֹשֵֽׁב׃
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You have seen all the disaster that I brought against Jerusalem and all the cities of Judah; and behold, they lie today in ruins and desolation
  40. Jeremiah 44:13הַיּֽוֹשְׁבִים֙ · those who live
    I will punish those who live in the land of Egypt, just as I punished Jerusalem, by sword and famine and plague,
  41. Jeremiah 44:14לָשֶׁ֣בֶת · and live
    …so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
  42. Jeremiah 44:15הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים · living
    Then all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, and all the women standing by—a great assembly—along with all the people living in the land of Egypt and in Pathros, said to Jeremiah,
  43. Jeremiah 44:22יוֹשֵׁ֖ב · inhabitant
    So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
  44. Jeremiah 44:26הַיֹּשְׁבִ֖ים · living
    Nevertheless, hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah living in Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by My great name, says the LORD, that never again will any man of Judah living in the land of Egypt invoke My name or say, ‘As surely as the Lord GOD lives.’
  45. Jeremiah 46:8וְיֹ֥שְׁבֵי · and their people
    Egypt rises like the Nile, and its waters churn like rivers, boasting, ‘I will rise and cover the earth; I will destroy the cities and their people.’
  46. Jeremiah 46:19יוֹשֶׁ֖בֶת · dwelling; יוֹשֵֽׁב׃ס · and uninhabited
    Pack your bags for exile, O daughter dwelling in Egypt! For Memphis will be laid waste, destroyed and uninhabited.
  47. Jeremiah 47:2וְיֹ֣שְׁבֵי · and their inhabitants
    This is what the LORD says: “See how the waters are rising from the north and becoming an overflowing torrent. They will overflow the land and its fullness, the cities and their inhabitants. The people will cry out, and all who dwell in the land will wail