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Judges 11:26

“While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

יָשַׁבyâshab · yaw-shab'
H3427 · Hebrew

Definition: properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: (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.
Grammar: בְּ — preposition
שֶׁ֣בֶת — verb Qal, infinitive construct
Code HR/Vqc
Usage: Occurs 1,092 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:16 Genesis 4:20 Genesis 11:2 Genesis 11:31 Genesis 13:6

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָשַׁב here.

Verse 25 Verse 27

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.