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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And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
H3427
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
H3427
As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
H3427
But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice of the LORD your God,
H3427
Saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
H3427
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
H1481
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
H3427
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
H3427
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
H1481
In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
H3427
For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
H3427
So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
H3427
Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
H3427
Thus saith the LORD; Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall be an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: then the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl.
H3427
Give wings unto Moab, that it may flee and get away: for the cities thereof shall be desolate, without any to dwell therein.
H3427
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
H7931
O ye that dwell in Moab, leave the cities, and dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketh her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.
H3427
Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
H3427
Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
H1481
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
H3427
Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
H7931
Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
H1481
And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
H3427
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
H3427
Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.
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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