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Hebrew H3427 yâshab

Original: יָשַׁב

Meaning:
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; (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.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: (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.

Hebrew H3993 maʼărâb

Original: מַאֲרָב

Meaning:
from אָרַב; an ambuscade; lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.

Hebrew H4224 machăbêʼ

Original: מַחֲבֵא

Meaning:
or מַחֲבֹא; from חָבָא; a refuge; hiding (lurking) place.

Notes:
KJV/AV rendering: hiding (lurking) place.

Verses containing this word showing 3 of 3

^{1 Samuel 23:23} See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah. Open

^{Psalm 10:8} He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. Open

^{Psalm 17:12} Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places. Open

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