Lexicon :: Strong's G2730 - katoikeō

Let God extend Japheth;[fn]

let Japheth dwell in the tents of Shem;

let Canaan be Shem’s slave.

As people migrated from the east,[fn] they found a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.

Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran’s son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they set out together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. But when they came to Haran, they settled there.

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,

Abram lived in the land of Canaan, but Lot lived in the cities on the plain and set up his tent near Sodom.

So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.

Then they came back to invade En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and they defeated the whole territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who lived in Hazazon-tamar.

They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom, and they went on.

“This man will be like a wild donkey. His hand will be against everyone, and everyone’s hand will be against him; he will settle near all his relatives.”

He demolished these cities, the entire plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and whatever grew on the ground.

So it was, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham and brought Lot out of the middle of the upheaval when he demolished the cities where Lot had lived.

Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you want.”[fn]

God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,[fn] for he was living in the Negev region.

After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

And they[fn] settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt as you go toward Asshur.[fn] He[fn] stayed near[fn] all his relatives.

The LORD appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Live in the land that I tell you about;

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

So Isaac left there, camped in the Gerar Valley, and lived there.

“Live with us. The land is before you. Settle here, move about, and acquire property in it.”

“We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.

“But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me, making me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and the Perizzites. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went in and slept with his father’s concubine Bilhah, and Israel heard about it.

Jacob had twelve sons:

These are the sons of Seir the Horite,

the inhabitants of the land:

Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.

“You can settle in the land of Goshen and be near me ​— ​you, your children, and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.

“you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our ancestors, have raised livestock[fn] from our youth until now.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are detestable to Egyptians.”

And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to stay in the land for a while because there is no grazing land for your servants’ sheep, since the famine in the land of Canaan has been severe. So now, please let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.”

Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the region of Goshen. They acquired property in it and became fruitful and very numerous.

“Zebulun will live by the seashore

and will be a harbor for ships,

and his territory will be next to Sidon.

When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim.[fn] It is across the Jordan.

Joseph and his father’s family remained in Egypt. Joseph lived 110 years.

The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt[fn] was 430 years.

When the peoples hear, they will shudder;

anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

“Do not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, or follow the practices of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their customs.

“You are to keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.

“You are to live in shelters for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in shelters,

“You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

“You are to keep my statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.

“Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.