Lexicon :: Strong's H3427 - yāšaḇ

Then Cain went out from the LORD’s presence and lived in the land of Nod,[fn] east of Eden.

Adah bore Jabal; he was the first[fn] of the nomadic herdsmen.

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.

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.

So Abram’s wife, Sarai, took Hagar, her Egyptian slave, and gave her to her husband, Abram, as a wife for him. This happened after Abram had lived in the land of Canaan ten years.

The LORD appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.

The two angels entered Sodom in the evening as Lot was sitting in Sodom’s gateway. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them. He bowed with his face to the ground

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.

From there Abraham traveled to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

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

and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die! ” While she sat at a distance, she[fn] wept loudly.

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

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

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

Ephron was sitting among the Hethites. So in the hearing[fn] of all the Hethites who came to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hethite answered Abraham:

“and I will have you swear by the LORD, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,

“My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live

But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us for about ten days. Then she[fn] can go.”

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.

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[fn] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[fn]

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

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

Jacob replied to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game so that you may bless me.”

“and stay with him for a few days until your brother’s anger subsides ​— ​

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”[fn]

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay with me.”

Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of the camel, and sat on them. Laban searched the whole tent but found nothing.

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

“Then we will give you our daughters, take your daughters for ourselves, live with you, and become one people.

“These men are peaceful toward us,” they said. “Let them live in our land and move about in it, for indeed, the region is large enough for them. Let’s take their daughters as our wives and give our daughters to them.

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.”

God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

For their possessions were too many for them to live together, and because of their herds, the land where they stayed could not support them.

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.

They sat down to eat a meal, and when they looked up, there was a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying aromatic gum, balsam, and resin, going down to Egypt.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.