לוּן lûwn
Meaning
to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain)
In the King James Version: abide (all night), continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), (make to) murmur, remain, tarry (all night, that night).
Derivation: or לִין; a primitive root;
Where it is used
- Job 41:22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay leaps before him.
- Psalms 25:13 His soul will dwell in prosperity, and his descendants will inherit the land.
- Psalms 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Psalms 49:12 But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish.
- Psalms 55:7 How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah
- Psalms 59:15 They scavenge for food, and growl if they are not satisfied.
- Psalms 91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Proverbs 15:31 He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
- Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the LORD leads to life, that one may rest content, without visitation from harm.
- Song of Solomon 1:13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
- Song of Solomon 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night among the wildflowers.
- Isaiah 1:21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers!
- Isaiah 21:13 This is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
- Isaiah 65:4 sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.
- Jeremiah 4:14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Jeremiah 14:8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?
- Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- Zephaniah 2:14 Herds will lie down in her midst, creatures of every kind. Both the desert owl and screech owl will roost atop her pillars. Their calls will sound from the window, but desolation will lie on the threshold, for He will expose the beams of cedar.
- Zechariah 5:4 I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.”