Words the Bible translates as settle
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 8 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- katoikeōκατοικέωto live in a place as a settled resident; to settle down somewhere.
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- to take up residence within someone or something, of a presence that makes it its home; to indwell.
- nu'aḥנוּחַto come to rest: to settle down, alight, and be at quiet after motion or trouble
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- to give rest: to grant relief and security, almost always God settling his people safe from their enemies
- to set down: to lay, deposit, or place a thing somewhere, and by extension to leave it, leave it alone, or let it be
- shakhanשָׁכַןto settle down in a place and stay there: to pitch one's dwelling and make it home
- ragaרָגַעto bring to a settled stop: to grant rest and relief, or to come to rest oneself
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- to stir water up: to set the sea heaving so that its waves roar
- in an instant: to happen in a flash, or to last no longer than a moment
- of diseased skin: to close over and harden into a crust
- tavaטָבַעto sink: to go down into mire, water, or earth and be held fast, or to be driven and set firmly into a surface or place
- azarahעֲזָרָהan area closed in by a firm edge: the temple's walled yard, or the ledge that runs around the altar
- epiluōἐπιλύωto resolve what is unresolved: to make a puzzle plain by explaining it, or to bring a matter to a settled decision
- katoikizōκατοικίζωto settlenot studied yet
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