a place where someone sits or lives: a seat, a settlement, or the act of dwelling there
This noun is built from the verb meaning to sit or to dwell, and it keeps that whole range. At its most concrete it is the spot a person sits: a chair, a fixed place at a table, a position in an assembly. Widen the lens and the same word names the place a person lives: a home, a town, the inhabited stretch of land a family or nation occupies. The books of Moses use it again and again in the phrase usually translated "throughout your dwellings," meaning wherever the people happen to be settled.
The senses are not separate ideas so much as one idea seen at different distances. To take a seat and to take up residence are the same act of settling in, one for a moment and one for a lifetime. That is why a single Hebrew word can move from the chair by the wall to the homeland a tribe inhabits without feeling like a different word.
A third, narrower use names not the place but the staying itself: the stretch of time a people lived somewhere. There the word points to the dwelling as an event with a duration rather than a location on a map.
English has no single word that covers all of this, which is why translators reach for "seat," "dwelling," "settlement," "habitation," or "sojourn" depending on the verse.