Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H3427: יָשַׁב (yâshab) Definition

Strong's number
H3427
Lemma
יָשַׁב
Transliteration
yâshab
Pronunciation
yaw-shab'
Strong's definition
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, [idiom] fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, [idiom] marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry. a primitive root;

975 instances of the word יָשַׁב yâshab (H3427)


  • Job 29:25 - I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army the mourners as one that comforteth

  • Job 36:7 - He withdraweth from the righteous not his eyes but with kings are they on the throne yea he doth establish them for ever and they are exalted

  • Job 38:40 - When they couch in their dens and abide in the covert to lie in wait

  • Joel 1:2 - Hear this ye old men and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land Hath this been in your days or even Hath this been in your days of your fathers

  • Joel 1:14 - Sanctify ye a fast call a solemn assembly gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God and cry of the LORD

  • Joel 2:1 - Blow ye the trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm mountain in my holy tremble let all the inhabitants of the land cometh for the day of the LORD for it is nigh at hand

  • Joel 3:12 - be wakened and come up Let the heathen to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge Let the heathen round about

  • Joel 3:20 - But Judah for ever shall dwell and Jerusalem from generation from generation

  • Jonah 3:6 - came For word unto the king of Nineveh and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe from him and covered him with sackcloth and sat in ashes

  • Jonah 4:5 - went out So Jonah of the city and sat on the east side of the city and there made him a booth and sat under it in the shadow till he might see of the city

  • Joshua 1:14 - Your wives your little ones and your cattle shall remain in the land gave which Moses you on this side Jordan but ye shall pass armed before your brethren all the mighty men of valour and help

  • Joshua 2:9 - And she said I know hath given that the LORD of the land is fallen and that your terror faint upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land because

  • Joshua 2:15 - Then she let them down by a cord through the window for her house was upon the town upon the wall upon the wall and she dwelt

  • Joshua 2:22 - and came unto the mountain and abode there three days were returned and the pursuers sought and the pursuers them throughout all the way but found

  • Joshua 2:24 - And they said unto Joshua Truly hath delivered the LORD into our hands all the land do faint for even all the inhabitants all the land because

  • Joshua 5:8 - And it came to pass when they had done all the people circumcising that they abode in their places in the camp till they were whole

  • Joshua 6:25 - Rahab the harlot household and her father's alive And Joshua and all that she had and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day because she hid the messengers sent And Joshua to spy out Jericho

  • Joshua 7:7 - said And Joshua Alas O Lord GOD brought brought this people Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us would to God we had been content and dwelt on the other side Jordan

  • Joshua 7:9 - shall hear For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants from the earth of it and shall environ us round and cut off name from the earth and what wilt thou do name unto thy great

  • Joshua 8:9 - therefore sent them forth Joshua to lie in ambush and abode between Bethel and Ai on the west side and Ai lodged Joshua that night among the people