Genesis 4:20
And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle.
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Dwell
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Revelation 21:3
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
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Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
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יָשַׁב
yâshab · yaw-shab'
196 times translated as this KJV form1,085 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Strong's KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, × fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, × marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(-tle), (down-) sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 4:20Strong's last: Zechariah 14:11
Open full H3427 profile →שָׁכַן
shâkan · shaw-kan'
69 times translated as this KJV form128 total Strong's occurrences
to reside or permanently stay (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-er), have habitation, inhabit, lay, place, (cause to) remain, rest, set (up).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 9:27Strong's last: Zechariah 8:8
Open full H7931 profile →κατοικέω
katoikéō · kat-oy-keh'-o
18 times translated as this KJV form49 total Strong's occurrences
to house permanently, i.e. reside (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dwell(-er), inhabitant(-ter).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 12:45Strong's last: Revelation 14:6
Open full G2730 profile →גּוּר
gûwr · goor
11 times translated as this KJV form98 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to turn aside from the road (for a lodging or any other purpose), i.e. sojourn (as a guest); also to shrink, fear (as in a strange place); also to gather for hostility (as afraid)
Strong's KJV usage: abide, assemble, be afraid, dwell, fear, gather (together), inhabitant, remain, sojourn, stand in awe, (be) stranger, × surely.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Job 19:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 50:40
Open full H1481 profile →οἰκέω
oikéō · oy-keh'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to occupy a house, i.e. reside (figuratively, inhabit, remain, inhere); by implication, to cohabit
Strong's KJV usage: :--dwell.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Romans 8:9Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 7:13
Open full G3611 profile →σκηνόω
skēnóō · skay-no'-o
4 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to tent or encamp, i.e. (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or (specially), to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old, a symbol of protection and communion)
Strong's KJV usage: :-- dwell.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Revelation 7:15Strong's last: Revelation 21:3
Open full G4637 profile →דּוּר
dûwr · dure
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
to reside
Strong's KJV usage: dwell.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Daniel 2:38Strong's last: Daniel 6:25
Open full H1753 profile →ἐνοικέω
enoikéō · en-oy-keh'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to inhabit (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--dwell in.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 6:16Strong's last: Colossians 3:16
Open full G1774 profile →μένω
ménō · men'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form127 total Strong's occurrences
to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), X thine own.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 28:16Strong's last: 1 John 4:13
Open full G3306 profile →ἐπί
epí · ep-ee'
1 times translated as this KJV form860 total Strong's occurrences
properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of rest (with the dative case) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the accusative case) towards, upon, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: :--about (the times), above, after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, X have charge of, (be-, (where-))fore, in (a place, as much as, the time of, -to), (because) of, (up-)on (behalf of), over, (by, for) the space of, through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), with.
Strong's first: Revelation 17:8Strong's last: Revelation 17:8
Open full G1909 profile →κάθημαι
káthēmai · kath'-ay-mahee
1 times translated as this KJV form90 total Strong's occurrences
and ἧμαι (to sit; akin to the base of G1476); to sit down; figuratively, to remain, reside
Strong's KJV usage: :--dwell, sit (by, down).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 21:35Strong's last: Luke 21:35
Open full G2521 profile →דּוּר
dûwr · dure
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to gyrate (or move in a circle), i.e. to remain
Strong's KJV usage: dwell.
Strong's first: Psalms 84:10Strong's last: Psalms 84:10
Open full H1752 profile →זָבַל
zâbal · zaw-bal'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to reside
Strong's KJV usage: dwell with.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:20Strong's last: Genesis 30:20
Open full H2082 profile →יְתִב
yᵉthib · yeth-eeb'
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
to sit or dwell
Strong's KJV usage: dwell, (be) set, sit.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:17Strong's last: Ezra 4:17
Open full H3488 profile →לוּן
lûwn · loon
1 times translated as this KJV form85 total Strong's occurrences
to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain)
Strong's KJV usage: 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).
Strong's first: Psalms 25:13Strong's last: Psalms 25:13
Open full H3885 profile →מוֹשָׁב
môwshâb · mo-shawb'
1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences
a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population
Strong's KJV usage: assembly, dwell in, dwelling(-place), wherein (that) dwelt (in), inhabited place, seat, sitting, situation, sojourning.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 107:4Strong's last: Psalms 107:4
Open full H4186 profile →עָמַד
ʻâmad · aw-mad'
1 times translated as this KJV form520 total Strong's occurrences
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Strong's KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-) stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 8:22Strong's last: Exodus 8:22
Open full H5975 profile →שְׁכַן
shᵉkan · shek-an'
1 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences
Strong's KJV usage: cause to dwell, have habitation.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezra 6:12Strong's last: Ezra 6:12
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H3427
And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.
H3427
And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.
H3427
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
H7931
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
H7931
In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
H3427
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
H3427
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
H3427
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
H3427
When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
H3427
And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
H3427
And they shall no more be a prey to the heathen, neither shall the beast of the land devour them; but they shall dwell safely, and none shall make them afraid.
H3427
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
H3427
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.
H3427
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
H3427
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
H3427
After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
H3427
And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
H3427
To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
H3427
And I will send a fire on Magog, and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
H3427
And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:
H7931
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
H7931
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
English meaning and historical usage.
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dwell
DWELL, verb intransitive preterit tense dwelled, usually contracted into dwelt. [See Dally.]
1. To abide as a permanent resident, or to inhabit for a time; to live in a place; to have a habitation for some time or permanence.
God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem. Genesis 9:27.
DWELL imports a residence of some continuance. We use abide for the resting of a night or an hour; but we never say, he dwelt in a place a day or a night. dwell may signify a residence for life or for a much shorter period, but not for a day. In scripture, it denotes a residence of seven days during the feast of tabernacles.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days. Leviticus 23:42.
The word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. John 1:38.
2. To be in any state or condition; to continue.
To dwell in doubtful joy.
3. To continue; to be fixed in attention; to hang upon with fondness.
The attentive queen dwelt on his accents.
They stand at a distance, dwelling on his looks and language, fixed in amazement.
4. To continue long; as, to dwell on a subject, in speaking, debate or writing; to dwell on a note in music.
DWELL, as a verb transitive, is not used. We who dwell this wild, in Milton, is not a legitimate phrase.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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