Definition

a seat; figuratively, a site; abstractly, a session; by extension an abode (the place or the time); by implication, population

Etymology

or מֹשָׁב; from H3427 (יָשַׁב);

Where the KJV renders it

• assembly
• dwell in
• dwelling(-place)
• wherein (that) dwelt (in)
• inhabited place
• seat
• sitting
• situation
• sojourning

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.