55 occurrences in 11 translations

'Dwellings' in the Bible

At this, his father Isaac replied to him, "Look! Away from the fertile land will be your dwellings; away from the dew of the skies above.

Verse ConceptsdewLack Of Rain

chief Magdiel, chief Iram: these are chiefs of Edom, in reference to their dwellings, in the land of their possession; he is Esau father of Edom.

Verse ConceptsRulers Of Edom

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.

Verse ConceptsLight, NaturalPlaguesThree DaysLight In The WorldUnseenMoving To A New Place

anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'

You are not to light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath."

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtCampfirescooking

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Verse ConceptsForbidden Foodvampires

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.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPerpetual StatutesEating Forbidden Food

out of your dwellings ye bring in bread of a wave-offering, two loaves, of two tenth deals of flour they are, with yeast they are baken, first -fruits to Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsLeavenFeast Of WeeksYeastSwingingLeavenedTwo Other Things

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.

Verse ConceptsHolidayNo Work On Feast Days

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesPerpetual Statutes

'Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land of your dwellings, which I am giving to you,

“Tell the community: Get away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.”

Verse ConceptsSeparation From Evil People

So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. Meanwhile, Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrance of their tents with their wives, children, and infants.

How beautiful are your tents, Jacob,your dwellings, Israel.

Verse ConceptsBeautifulJacob, The Patriarchassertiveness

So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Verse ConceptsGenerations

and all their villages that are round about these cities unto Baal; these are their dwellings, and they have their genealogy:

And these are their dwellings, throughout their towers, in their borders, of the sons of Aaron, of the family of the Kohathite, for theirs was the lot;

And their possession and their dwellings are Beth-El and its small towns, and to the east Naaran, and to the west Gezer and its small towns, and Shechem and its small towns, unto Gaza and its small towns;

“The tents of the destroyers prosper;And those who provoke God are [apparently] secure,Whom God brings into their power.

Verse ConceptsSecurityTentsApparent InjusticeThe Wicked Prosperthieves

“A [dreadful] sound of terrors is in his ears;While at peace and in a time of prosperity the destroyer comes upon him [the tent of the robber is not at peace].

Verse ConceptsThose Who DestroyFear Is Due

He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsReasons For Barrenness

Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing God

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?

Verse ConceptsTentsThe Wicked Will Perish

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Verse ConceptsLiving In The Wilderness

[There is] a river whose streams gladden the city of God, the holiest of the dwellings of the Most High.

Verse ConceptsNames For JerusalemHoly Spirit, Types OfRiverspotential

Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming ThingsInner Beauty

Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheSheolNearness Of DeathDeath Looms NearWhilst Alivenatural DeathHurt And BetrayalLoss Of A Loved Onesurprises

Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.

Verse ConceptsViolence In The EarthViolenceNations DescribedDarkness Of EvilGod Keeps Covenant

Then He let them fall in the midst of their camp,Round about their dwellings.

Verse ConceptsAnimals Falling

How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies!

Verse ConceptsGod's DwellingLoving God's Things

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous:The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

Verse ConceptsJoy In WorshipShouting For JoySongsVictory, As An Act Of GodJoyJoy And HappinessCelebrationjoyfulsalesjoyfulness

If thou knowest not, O fair among women, Get thee forth by the traces of the flock, And feed thy kids by the shepherds' dwellings!

Verse ConceptsBeauty, SpiritualPasturing The Flockfootprints

"Enlarge the location of your tent, let the curtains of your dwellings be stretched wide, and don't hold back. Lengthen your cords; strengthen your stakes.

Verse ConceptsDevelopmentStretching OutRopesCordsEnlargementSpiritual ProgressPegsspacecredibility

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.'"

Verse ConceptsSabbath, In OtBurning JerusalemSabbath Observed

Behold, I am against thee, inhabitress of the valley, the rock of the plain, saith Jehovah; ye that say, Who shall come down against us, or who shall enter into our dwellings?

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceSecurity, FalseGod Opposing

This is what the Lord says:I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tentsand show compassion on his dwellings.Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;every citadel will stand on its proper site.

Verse ConceptsGod, Compassion OfJacob, The PatriarchArchaeologyRebuilding JerusalemEzekiel InvasionRebirth Of IsraelLand Permanently Restored To Israelrebuilding

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘There will again be in this desolate place—[a place] without man or animal—and in all its cities, pastures for shepherds who rest their flocks.

Verse ConceptsLand Becoming EmptyBoth Men And Animals AffectedThose Who Kept Stock

ב BetWithout compassion the Lord has swallowed upall the dwellings of Jacob.In His wrath He has demolishedthe fortified cities of Daughter Judah.He brought them to the groundand defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toFortificationsFortressesAnger Of God, ConsequencesJacob, The PatriarchDestruction Of StrongholdsSwallowingPeople Being PollutedNot Sparing

In all your dwellings the cities are laid waste, And the high places are desolate, So that waste and desolate are your altars, And broken and ceased have your idols, And cut down have been your images, And blotted out have been your works.

Verse ConceptsAbolish, Evil ThingsDestruction Of CitiesDestruction Of Satan's WorksUseless LabourOne's DeedsAbandoning Idols

And I have stretched out my hand against them, And have made the land a desolation, Even a desolation from the wilderness to Diblath, In all their dwellings, And they have known that I am Jehovah!'

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGod's HandDestruction Of CountriesGod's Hands Stretched Out

Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.

Verse ConceptsMilkNomadsSeeking Food

And brought them out from the peoples, And have gathered them from the lands, And brought them unto their own ground, And have fed them on mountains of Israel, By streams, and by all dwellings of the land.

Verse ConceptsGathering IsraelThe Mountains Of Israel

Nor are they defiled any more with their idols, And with their abominations, And with any of their transgressions, And I have saved them out of all their dwellings, In which they have sinned, And I have cleansed them, And they have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to them for God.

Verse ConceptsOffenceBeing Cleansed From SinAvoiding IdolatryI Will Be Their God

And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a common place for the city, for dwellings and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst of it.

Verse ConceptsMeasuring Jerusalem And The Land

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsForgettingFortified CitiesBuildingGrowth Of EvilDestruction Of HousesBurning CitiesCreation Of All Mankind

For look! I am raising up the Chaldeans, the bitter and impetuous nation, the one who walks through the spacious places of earth to take possession of dwellings not belonging to it.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahRashnessLiving In HousesProcessionsQuestioning GodBitterness

I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction. The dwellings of the land of Midian trembled.

Verse ConceptsNomadsTentsGroups Trembling

And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

Verse ConceptsCoastlandsPasturing The Flock

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
מעין מעוןo 
Ma`own 
Usage: 19

נוה נוה 
Naveh 
Usage: 35

ἐνοικέω 
Enoikeo 
dwell in , vr dwell in
Usage: 5

אהל 
'ohel 
Usage: 345

גּוּר 
Guwr 
Usage: 98

דּוּר 
Duwr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

זבל זבוּל 
Z@buwl 
Usage: 5

זבל 
Zabal 
dwell with me
Usage: 1

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

יתב 
Y@thiyb (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

לין לוּן 
Luwn 
lodge , murmur , ... the night , abide , remain , tarry , lodge in , continue , dwell , endure , grudge , left , lie , variant
Usage: 84

מגר מגוּר 
Maguwr 
Usage: 11

מדר מדר מדור 
M@dowr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 4

משׁב מושׁב 
Mowshab 
Usage: 44

מענה מעונה 
M@`ownah 
Usage: 9

משׁכּן 
Mishkan 
Usage: 139

שׁכן 
Shakan 
Usage: 128

שׁכן 
Sh@kan (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

שׁרא 
Sh@re' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

ἐγκατοικέω 
Egkatoikeo 
Usage: 1

κάθημαι 
Kathemai 
sit , sit down , sit by , be set down , dwell
Usage: 78

κατοικέω 
Katoikeo 
Usage: 40

κατοίκησις 
Katoikesis 
Usage: 1

μένω 
meno 
Usage: 85

οἰκέω 
Oikeo 
Usage: 9

παροικία 
Paroikia 
Usage: 2

περιοικέω 
Perioikeo 
Usage: 1

σκηνόω 
Skenoo 
Usage: 5

συνοικέω 
sunoikeo 
dwell with
Usage: 1

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