מוֹשָׁבmôwshâb

seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers

Pronunciation: mo-shawb' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4186

Meanings

a. seat (1 Samuel 20:18; 1 Samuel 20:25; Job 29:7)

b. = those sitting, sitting company or assembly (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chronicles 9:4; Psalms 1:1)

a. dwelling-place, of people tribe, etc., often= terriotory, district, or later, city (Genesis 10:39; Genesis 27:39; Exodus 10:23)

b. almost = abstract dwelling (Leviticus 25:29; Numbers 15:2)

c. = house (Exodus 12:20; Exodus 12:19; Exodus 35:3)

3. situation (2 Kings 2:19; Ezekiel 8:3)

4. time of dwelling (Exodus 12:40)

5. collective = those dwelling (2 Samuel 9:12; Ezekiel 37:28)

Same root

יָשַׁבyâshab · H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

Where it appears

Appears 44 times in the Bible.

Genesis 10:30 The territory they occupied extended from Mesha all the way to Sephar in the eastern mountains.
Genesis 27:39 Finally, his father, Isaac, said to him, “You will live away from the richness of the earth, and away from the dew of the heaven above.
Genesis 36:43 Magdiel, and Iram. These are the leaders of the clans of Edom, listed according to their settlements in the land they occupied. They all descended from Esau, the ancestor of the Edomites.
Exodus 10:23 During all that time the people could not see each other, and no one moved. But there was light as usual where the people of Israel lived.
Exodus 12:20 During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
Exodus 12:40 The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

See every passage

Genesis 10:30, 27:39, 36:43
Exodus 10:23, 12:20, 12:40, 35:3
Leviticus 3:17, 7:26, 13:46, 23:3, 23:14, 23:17, 23:21, 23:31, 25:29
Numbers 15:2, 24:21, 31:10, 35:29
1 Samuel 20:18, 20:25
2 Samuel 9:12
1 Kings 10:5
2 Kings 2:19
1 Chronicles 4:33, 6:54, 7:28
2 Chronicles 9:4
Job 29:7
Psalms 1:1, 107:4, 107:7, 107:32, 107:36, 132:13
Ezekiel 6:6, 6:14, 8:3, 28:2, 34:13, 37:23, 48:15

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).