# H3427 יָשַׁב יָשַׁב (yâshab), Strong’s H3427: properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry KJV: (make to) abide(-ing)… Source: https://besorah.bible/word/H3427 — Besorah, the whole Bible in Hebrew, Greek and English. Texts and licences: https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html *yâshab* — properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry KJV: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure… Occurs 1081 times. ## Brown–Driver–Briggs - יָשַׁב 1090 vb. sit, remain, dwell - Qal - a sit - b sit, sit down - c sit down - d sit = be set (as a jewel) - a remain, stay, tarry - b with special emphasis of qualifying phr. - 3 dwell, have one’s abode - 4 of a land or city, sit, abide, seated in its place, fig. for be inhabited - Niph. be inhabited, of land - Pi. and they shall set their encampments in thee - Hiph. - 1 cause to sit - 2 cause to abide - a cause to dwell - b cause cities to be inhabited - 4 marry (prop. give a dwelling to) - Hoph. and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land ## Where it occurs - [Genesis 4:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=16) — Cain left the LORD’s presence, and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden. - [Genesis 4:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=20) — Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock. - [Genesis 11:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=2) — As they traveled east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they lived there. - [Genesis 11:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/11?v=31) — Terah took Abram his son, Lot the son of Haran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife… - [Genesis 13:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=6) — The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together; for their possessions were so great that they… - [Genesis 13:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=7) — There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the… - [Genesis 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=12) — Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom. - [Genesis 13:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/13?v=18) — Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the… - [Genesis 14:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=7) — They returned, and came to En Mishpat (also called Kadesh), and struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the… - [Genesis 14:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=12) — They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.