יְתִב
yᵉthib · H3488 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to sit
Action by which humans or deities assume a sitting position in a certain location and remain in that position for some time; sometimes associated with a certain status, role, or activity
ExamplesDaniel 7:9 “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, Its wheels were a burning fire.
Daniel 7:10 “A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; Thousands upon thousands were serving Him, And myriads upon myriads were standing before Him; The court convened, And the books were opened.
Daniel 7:26 ‘But the court will convene for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.
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to settle, to dwell, to live, to inhabit
Process by which humans make a certain place or area their home
ExamplesEzra 4:17 Then the king sent a response to Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River: “Peace. And now,
Ezra 4:10 and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River. And now
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- דִּיןjudgement 2
- עַתִּיקancient 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הִמּוֹare 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with+ שְׁאָרwhatsoever more 2
- בin/on/with+ קִרְיָאcity 1
- בin/on/with+ שׇׁמְרַיִןSamaria 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שָׁכַן shâkan · H7931 · to settle down, to stay, dwell, to cause to dwell
- Both lexemes denote dwelling/residing/sitting actions—genuine overlapping sense as same-language near-synonyms. יְתִב (yᵉthib, H3488) is Aramaic (5 occurrences) and שָׁכַן (shâkan, H7931) is Hebrew (129 occurrences), but both describe the act of dwelling/sitting/remaining in a place. The relationship is real but evidence is limited by low occurrence count.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Space002002001017
- Ezra 4:10 recounts the settlement of foreign peoples in Samaria, “and the rest of the nations which the great and honorable Osnappar deported and settled in the city of Samaria, and in the rest of the region beyond the Euphrates River.”
- Stance002001001061
- Daniel 7:9 recounts Daniel's vision of the Ancient of Days, “I kept looking Until thrones were set up, And the Ancient of Days took His seat; His garment was white as snow, And the hair of His head like pure wool.”
- Dwell002002001005
- Ezra 4:17 recounts that “the king sent a response to Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River.”
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3488. yethib יְתִב (K§ 25 a) β)) verb sit, dwell (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew ישׁב);…
יְתִב (K§ 25 a) β))
verb sit, dwell (ᵑ7 Syriac; see Biblical Hebrew ישׁב); —
Pe`al 1. sit, be seated: Perfect3masculine singular יְתִב Dan 7:9 and (of judgment = the judge) Dan 7:10, so Imperfect3masculine singular יִתִּ֑ב (K§ 43.1.Beisp. b), compare Biblical Hebrew יֵשֵׁב) Dan 7:26.
2 dwell, Participle plural absolute יָתְבִין Ezr 4:17 (ב location).
Haph`el cause to dwell: Perfect3masculine singular הוֺתֵב Ezr 4:10 (accusative + ב location).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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