Lexicon :: Strong's H4186 - môšāḇ

Then Isaac his father answered and [prophesied and] said to him,

“Your dwelling shall be away from the fertility of the earth

And away from the dew of heaven above;

Now the period of time the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

‘For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation (calling together). You shall not do any work [on that day]; it is the Sabbath of the LORD [fn]wherever you may be.

‘If a man sells a house in a walled city, then his right of redemption remains valid for a full year after its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

And Balaam looked at the Kenites and took up his [sixth] discourse (oracle) and said:

“Strong is your dwelling place,

And you set your nest in the cliff.

‘These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be.

Then Jonathan said to David, “Tomorrow is the New Moon [festival], and you will be missed because your seat will be empty.

Then the men of the city said to Elisha, “Look, this city is in a pleasant place, as my lord [Elisha] sees; but the water is bad and the land [fn]is barren.”

Now these are their settlements according to their camps within their borders: to the sons of Aaron of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first allocation by lot)

Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, and Shechem, and as far as [fn]Ayyah with all their towns,

“When I went out to the gate of the city,

When I took my seat [as a city father] in the square,

[fn]Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favored by God] is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked [following their advice and example],

Nor stand in the path of sinners,

Nor sit [down to rest] in the seat of [fn]scoffers (ridiculers).

They wandered in the wilderness in a [solitary] desert region;

And did not find a way to an inhabited city.

He led them by the straight way,

To an inhabited city [where they could establish their homes].

Let them exalt Him also in the congregation of the people,

And praise Him at the seat of the elders.

And there He has the hungry dwell,

So that they may establish an inhabited city,

For the LORD has chosen Zion;

He has desired it for His dwelling place:

“Because your heart is lifted up

And you have said and thought, ‘I am a god,

I sit in the seat of the gods

In the heart of the seas’;

Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God,

Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God—

“The remaining [strip of] 5,000 cubits in width and 25,000 in length shall be for the city’s common (secular) use, for a place in which to live and for open country. The city shall be in the midst of it.