יֹשֵׁב בַּשֶּׁבֶת Yôshêb bash-Shebeth — sitting in the seat
Translated in the KJV as that sat in the seat.
from the active participle of H3427 and H7674, with a preposition and the article interposed; sitting in the seat; Joshebbash-Shebeth, an Israelite.
Yôshêb bash-Shebeth in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 1
These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.
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 ›