יָשַׁב

ya.shav

Hebrew H3427 Verb 1,078 occurrences in 973 verses
יָשַׁב to dwell

1. to dwell, remain, sit, abide

a. (Qal)

1. to sit, sit down

2. to be set

3. to remain, stay

4. to dwell, have one's abode

b. (Niphal) to be inhabited

c. (Piel) to set, place

d. (Hiphil)

1. to cause to sit

2. to cause to abide, set

3. to cause to dwell

4. to cause (cities) to be inhabited

5. to marry (give an dwelling to)

e. (Hophal)

1. to be inhabited

2. to make to dwell

Aramaic equivalent: ye.tiv (יְתִב "to dwell" H3488)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 973 verses

  1. 1 Samuel 14:2 יוֹשֵׁב֙

    Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,

  2. 1 Samuel 19:2 וְיָשַׁבְתָּ֥

    so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.

  3. 1 Samuel 19:9 יוֹשֵׁ֔ב

    But as Saul was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, a spirit of distress from the LORD came upon him. While David was playing the harp,

  4. 1 Samuel 19:18 וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ

    So David ran away and escaped. And he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.

  5. 1 Samuel 20:5 יָשֹׁב־אֵשֵׁ֥ב

    So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.

  6. 1 Samuel 20:19 וְיָ֣שַׁבְתָּ֔

    When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.

  7. 1 Samuel 20:24 וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב

    So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.

  8. 1 Samuel 20:25 וַיֵּ֣שֶׁבוַיֵּ֥שֶׁב

    He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

  9. 1 Samuel 22:4 וַיֵּשְׁב֣וּ

    So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

  10. 1 Samuel 22:5 תֵשֵׁב֙

    Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Depart and go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

  11. 1 Samuel 22:6 יוֹשֵׁ֨ב

    Soon Saul learned that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree on the hill at Gibeah, with his spear in hand and all his servants standing around him.

  12. 1 Samuel 22:23 שְׁבָ֤ה

    Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks your life is seeking mine as well. You will be safe with me.”

  13. 1 Samuel 23:5 יֹשְׁבֵ֥י

    Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.

  14. 1 Samuel 23:14 וַיֵּ֨שֶׁבוַיֵּ֥שֶׁב

    And David stayed in the wilderness strongholds and in the hill country of the Wilderness of Ziph. Day after day Saul searched for him, but God would not deliver David into his hand.

  15. 1 Samuel 23:18 וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב

    So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in Horesh, while Jonathan went home.

  16. 1 Samuel 23:25 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב

    and Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard of this, he pursued David there.

  17. 1 Samuel 23:29 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב

    And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En-gedi.

  18. 1 Samuel 24:3 יֹשְׁבִֽים׃

    Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

  19. 1 Samuel 25:13 יָשְׁב֥וּ

    And David said to his men, “Strap on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords, and about four hundred men followed David, while two hundred stayed with the supplies.

  20. 1 Samuel 26:3 יֹשֵׁ֣ב

    Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah opposite Jeshimon, but David was living in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had followed him there,

  21. 1 Samuel 27:3 וַיֵּשֶׁב֩

    David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal.

  22. 1 Samuel 27:5 וְאֵ֣שְׁבָהיֵשֵׁ֧ב

    Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

  23. 1 Samuel 27:7 יָשַׁ֥ב

    And the time that David lived in Philistine territory amounted to a year and four months.

  24. 1 Samuel 27:8 יֹשְׁב֤וֹת

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  25. 1 Samuel 27:11 יָשַׁ֖ב

    David did not leave a man or woman alive to be brought to Gath, for he said, “Otherwise they will report us, saying, ‘This is what David did.’” And this was David’s custom the whole time he lived in Philistine territory.

  26. 1 Samuel 28:23 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב

    Saul refused, saying, “I will not eat.” But his servants joined the woman in urging him, and he heeded their voice. He got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

  27. 1 Samuel 30:21 וַיֹּֽשִׁיבֻם֙

    When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow him from the Brook of Besor, they came out to meet him and the troops with him. As David approached the men, he greeted them,

  28. 1 Samuel 30:24 הַיֹּשֵׁ֥ב

    Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.”

  29. 1 Samuel 31:7 וַיֵּֽשְׁב֖וּ

    When the Israelites along the valley and those on the other side of the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons had died, they abandoned their cities and ran away. So the Philistines came and occupied their cities.

  30. 1 Samuel 31:11 יֹשְׁבֵ֖י

    When the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

  31. 2 Samuel 1:1 וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב

    After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days.

  32. 2 Samuel 2:3 וַיֵּשְׁב֖וּ

    David also took the men who were with him, each with his household, and they settled in the towns near Hebron.

  33. 2 Samuel 2:13 וַיֵּ֨שְׁב֜וּ

    So Joab son of Zeruiah, along with the servants of David, marched out and met them by the pool of Gibeon. And the two camps took up positions on opposite sides of the pool.

  34. 2 Samuel 5:6 יוֹשֵׁ֣ב

    Now the king and his men marched to Jerusalem against the Jebusites who inhabited the land. The Jebusites said to David: “You will never get in here. Even the blind and lame can repel you.” For they thought, “David cannot get in here.”

  35. 2 Samuel 5:9 וַיֵּ֤שֶׁב

    So David took up residence in the fortress and called it the City of David. He built it up all the way around, from the supporting terraces inward.

  36. 2 Samuel 6:2 יֹשֵׁ֥ב

    And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name— the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

  37. 2 Samuel 6:11 וַיֵּשֶׁב֩

    Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.

  38. 2 Samuel 7:1 יָשַׁ֥ב

    After the king had settled into his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all his enemies around him,

  39. 2 Samuel 7:2 יוֹשֵׁ֖ביֹשֵׁ֖ב

    he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

  40. 2 Samuel 7:5 לְשִׁבְתִּֽי׃

    “Go and tell My servant David that this is what the LORD says: Are you the one to build for Me a house to dwell in?

  41. 2 Samuel 7:6 יָשַׁ֙בְתִּי֙

    For I have not dwelt in a house from the day I brought the Israelites up out of Egypt until this day, but I have moved about with a tent as My dwelling.

  42. 2 Samuel 7:18 וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב

    Then King David went in, sat before the LORD, and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

  43. 2 Samuel 9:13 יֹשֵׁב֙

    So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, because he always ate at the king’s table, and he was lame in both feet.

  44. 2 Samuel 10:5 שְׁב֣וּ

    When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

  45. 2 Samuel 11:1 יוֹשֵׁ֥ב

    In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David remained in Jerusalem.

  46. 2 Samuel 11:11 יֹשְׁבִ֣ים

    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”

  47. 2 Samuel 11:12 שֵׁ֥בוַיֵּ֨שֶׁב

    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

  48. 2 Samuel 13:20 וַתֵּ֤שֶׁב

    Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.

  49. 2 Samuel 14:28 וַיֵּ֧שֶׁב

    Now Absalom lived in Jerusalem two years without seeing the face of the king.

  50. 2 Samuel 15:8 בְּשִׁבְתִּ֥י

    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”

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