יָשַׁב yâshab

Meaning

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

In the King James Version: (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.

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Psalms 47:8 God reigns over the nations; God is seated on His holy throne.
• Psalms 49:1 For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all you peoples; listen, all inhabitants of the world,
• Psalms 50:20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
• Psalms 55:19 God will hear and humiliate them—the One enthroned for the ages—Selah because they do not change and they have no fear of God.
• Psalms 61:7 May he sit enthroned in God’s presence forever; appoint Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness to guard him.
• Psalms 65:8 Those who live far away fear Your wonders; You make the dawn and sunset shout for joy.
• Psalms 68:6 God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
• Psalms 68:10 Your flock settled therein; O God, from Your bounty You provided for the poor.
• Psalms 68:16 Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
• Psalms 69:12 Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
• Psalms 69:25 May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
• Psalms 69:35 For God will save Zion and rebuild the cities of Judah, that they may dwell there and possess it.
• Psalms 75:3 When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
• Psalms 80:1 For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lilies of the Covenant.” A Psalm of Asaph. Hear us, O Shepherd of Israel, who leads Joseph like a flock; You who sit enthroned between the cherubim, shine forth
• Psalms 83:7 of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
• Psalms 84:4 How blessed are those who dwell in Your house! They are ever praising You. Selah
• Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
• Psalms 98:7 Let the sea resound, and all that fills it, the world, and all who dwell in it.
• Psalms 99:1 The LORD reigns; let the nations tremble! He is enthroned above the cherubim; let the earth quake!
• Psalms 101:6 My eyes favor the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way of integrity shall minister to me.
• Psalms 101:7 No one who practices deceit shall dwell in my house; no one who tells lies shall stand in my presence.
• Psalms 102:12 But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
• Psalms 107:10 Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains,
• Psalms 107:34 and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Psalms 107:36 He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
• Psalms 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
• Psalms 113:5 Who is like the LORD our God, the One enthroned on high?
• Psalms 113:8 to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.
• Psalms 113:9 He settles the barren woman in her home as a joyful mother to her children. Hallelujah!
• Psalms 119:23 Though rulers sit and slander me, Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
• Psalms 122:5 For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.
• Psalms 123:1 A song of ascents. I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
• Psalms 125:1 A song of ascents. Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion. It cannot be moved; it abides forever.
• Psalms 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Psalms 132:12 If your sons keep My covenant and the testimony I will teach them, then their sons will also sit on your throne forever and ever.”
• Psalms 132:14 “This is My resting place forever and ever; here I will dwell, for I have desired this home.
• Psalms 133:1 A song of ascents. Of David. Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
• Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
• Psalms 139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
• Psalms 140:13 Surely the righteous will praise Your name; the upright will dwell in Your presence.
• Psalms 143:3 For the enemy has pursued my soul, crushing my life to the ground, making me dwell in darkness like those long since dead.
• Proverbs 3:29 Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
• Proverbs 9:14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city,
• Proverbs 20:8 A king who sits on a throne to judge sifts out all evil with his eyes.
• Proverbs 21:9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 21:19 Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
• Proverbs 23:1 When you sit down to dine with a ruler, consider carefully what is set before you,
• Proverbs 25:24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
• Proverbs 31:23 Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.
• Ecclesiastes 10:6 Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.
• Song of Solomon 2:3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
• Song of Solomon 5:12 His eyes are like doves beside the streams of water, bathed in milk and mounted like jewels.
• Song of Solomon 8:13 You who dwell in the gardens, my companions are listening for your voice. Let me hear it!
• Isaiah 3:26 And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
• Isaiah 5:3 “And now, O dwellers of Jerusalem and men of Judah, I exhort you to judge between Me and My vineyard.
• Isaiah 5:8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
• Isaiah 5:9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
• Isaiah 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
• Isaiah 6:5 Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
• Isaiah 6:11 Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,