Moshav מוֹשָׁב

Moshav (Hebrew מוֹשָׁב, Strong's H4186) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “seat”. It occurs 44 times in 43 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Moshav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 10:30
  And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.
• Genesis 27:39
  And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
• Genesis 36:43
  Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.Magdiel, and Iram. These were the chiefs of Edom, according to their settlements in the land they possessed. Esau was the father of the Edomites.

Exodus

• Exodus 10:23
  They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.
• Exodus 12:20
  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
• Exodus 12:40
  Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
• Exodus 35:3
  Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

Leviticus

• Leviticus 3:17
  It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.”
• Leviticus 7:26
  Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.
• Leviticus 13:46
  All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp.
• Leviticus 23:3
  Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
• Leviticus 23:14
  And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.You must not eat any bread or roasted or new grain until the very day you have brought this offering to your God. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
• Leviticus 23:17
  Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord.Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD.
• Leviticus 23:21
  And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.
• Leviticus 23:31
  Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
• Leviticus 25:29
  And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.If a man sells a house in a walled city, he retains his right of redemption until a full year after its sale; during that year it may be redeemed.

Numbers

• Numbers 15:2
  Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
• Numbers 24:21
  And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.Next he saw the Kenites and lifted up an oracle, saying: “Your dwelling place is secure, and your nest is set in a cliff.
• Numbers 31:10
  And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
• Numbers 35:29
  So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 20:18
  Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon, and you will be missed if your seat is empty.
• 1 Samuel 20:25
  And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, and David’s place was empty.He sat in his usual place by the wall, opposite Jonathan and beside Abner, but David’s place was empty.

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 9:12
  And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica, and all who dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants of Mephibosheth.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 10:5
  And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 2:19
  And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Please note, our lord, that the city’s location is good, as you can see. But the water is bad and the land is unfruitful.”

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 4:33
  And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.and all their surrounding villages as far as Baal. These were their settlements, and they kept a genealogical record:
• 1 Chronicles 6:54
  Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.Now these were the territories assigned to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clan for their settlements, because the first lot fell to them:
• 1 Chronicles 7:28
  And their possessions and habitations were, Beth–el and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 9:4
  And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the Lord; there was no more spirit in her.the food at his table, the seating of his servants, the service and attire of his attendants and cupbearers, and the burnt offerings he presented at the house of the LORD, it took her breath away.

Job

• Job 29:7
  When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!When I went out to the city gate and took my seat in the public square,

Psalms

• Psalm 1:1
  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
• Psalm 107:4
  They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
• Psalm 107:7
  And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
• Psalm 107:32
  Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.
• Psalm 107:36
  And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.
• Psalm 132:13
  For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.For the LORD has chosen Zion; He has desired it for His home:

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 6:6
  In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
• Ezekiel 6:14
  So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
• Ezekiel 8:3
  And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
• Ezekiel 28:2
  Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
• Ezekiel 34:13
  And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the settlements of the land.
• Ezekiel 37:23
  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.
• Ezekiel 48:15
  And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.The remaining area, 5,000 cubits wide and 25,000 cubits long, will be for common use by the city, for houses, and for pastureland. The city will be in the center of it

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).