יָשַׁב yâshab — properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet)
Translated in the KJV as abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell, ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, inhabit, make to keep.
a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry.
yâshab in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 500Wayyiqtol 179Imperfect (yiqtol) 102Infinitive construct 84Perfect (qatal) 72Sequential perfect (weqatal) 54Imperative 42Jussive 3Cohortative 2Infinitive absolute 1
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Hiph'il
Wayyiqtol 14Perfect (qatal) 8Sequential perfect (weqatal) 5Imperative 3Infinitive construct 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Participle (active) 2
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (passive) 3Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Hoph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:
Pi'el
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›