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H3427Hebrew

יָשַׁב

Definition and meaning

yashab (yaw-shab') v. 1. (properly) to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet) 2. (by implication) to dwell, to remain 3. (causatively) to settle, to marry [a primitive root] KJV: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.

Tagged KJV passages

980 matching verses - 1089.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Esther 5:13

Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

Matched English: sitting
Esther 6:10

Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

Matched English: sitteth
Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

Matched English: dwelt
Job 2:8

And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

Matched English: down
Job 2:13

So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Matched English: down
Job 15:28

And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

Matched English: inhabiteth
Job 22:8

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

Matched English: dwelt
Job 24:13

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Matched English: abide
Job 29:25

I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Matched English: sat
Job 36:7

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

Matched English: establish
Job 38:40

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Matched English: abide
Psalms 1:1

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Matched English: sitteth
Psalms 2:4

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Matched English: sitteth
Psalms 4:8

I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

Matched English: dwell
Psalms 9:4

For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.

Matched English: satest
Psalms 9:7

But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.

Matched English: endure
Psalms 9:11

Sing praises to the LORD, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

Matched English: dwelleth
Psalms 10:8

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Matched English: sitteth
Psalms 17:12

Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Matched English: lurking
Psalms 22:3

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Matched English: inhabitest
Psalms 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

Matched English: dwell
Psalms 24:1

A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

Matched English: dwell
Psalms 26:4

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

Matched English: sat
Psalms 26:5

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Matched English: sit