shevet · seat, dwelling

What it means

shevet (שֶׁבֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “seat, dwelling”.

Seat, place where someone is or stays; the act of sitting or dwelling. In 2 Samuel 23:7 its sense is uncertain ("in their place").

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Where one sits or lives.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• seat ×2
• dwelling ×1
• place ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Amos×1
• Obadiah×1

• 2 Samuel 23:7

  The man who touches them will be filled with iron and the shaft of a spear, and with fire they will be utterly burned in their place.”

• 1 Kings 10:19

  There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round at its back; and there were arms on this side and on that of the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the arms.

• Amos 6:3

  Those who put far away the evil day and bring near the seat of violence;

• Obadiah 1:3

  The arrogance of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, in the height of his dwelling, who says in his heart, “Who will bring me down to the earth?”