Words the Bible translates as inhabit
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- yashavיָשַׁבto sit, to dwell, or to stay: to settle into a fixed place and remain there, whether for a moment, a lifetime, or a reign.
- katoikeōκατοικέωto live in a place as a settled resident; to settle down somewhere.
+1 more meaning
- to take up residence within someone or something, of a presence that makes it its home; to indwell.
- shakhanשָׁכַןto settle down in a place and stay there: to pitch one's dwelling and make it home
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