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Strong's H4186 מוֹשָׁב (moshab)

Moshab means “seat” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G4186 — polytimos (“very costly”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H4186
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 43
Books 13

Strong's H4186 Quick Answer

Strong's H4186 מוֹשָׁב מוֹשָׁב (mowshab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. mowshab (mo-shawb') (or moshab {mo-shawb'}) n-m. 1. a seat 2. (figuratively) a site It has 43 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include seat, dwelling, place, and their. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
mowshab (mo-shawb') (or moshab {mo-shawb'}) n-m. 1. a seat 2. (figuratively) a site
Usage
43 linked usages
Books
13 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
seat, dwelling, place, and their

Meaning and Definition

mowshab (mo-shawb') (or moshab {mo-shawb'}) n-m. 1. a seat 2. (figuratively) a site 3. (abstractly) a session 4. (by extension) an abode (the place or the time) 5. (by implication) population [from H3427] KJV: assembly, dwell in, dwelling(-place), wherein (that) dwelt (in), inhabited place, seat, sitting, situation, sojourning. Root(s): H3427

Original Word
מוֹשָׁב מוֹשָׁב
Transliteration
mowshab
Derivation
Root: ישׁב First root strongs: 3427
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H4186. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

seat

Usage: 1) seat, assembly, dwelling-place, dwelling, dwellers 1a) seat, sitting, those sitting, sitting company or assembly 1b) dwelling place, dwelling 1c) situation, location 1d) time of dwelling 1e) those dwelling, dweller

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How Strong's H4186 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render mowshab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

seat 1 Samuel 20:18 dwelling Genesis 10:30 place Exodus 10:23 their Genesis 36:43

How Strong's H4186 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 43 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H4186 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H4186 in the Old Testament

43 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 10:30 KJV

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

Genesis 27:39 KJV

And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

Genesis 36:43 KJV

Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

Usage Excerpts

First 43 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4186.

Genesis 10:30 Old Testament, KJV
And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Genesis 27:39 Old Testament, KJV
And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
Genesis 36:43 Old Testament, KJV
Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.
Exodus 10:23 Old Testament, KJV
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Exodus 12:20 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Exodus 12:40 Old Testament, KJV
Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
Exodus 35:3 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Leviticus 3:17 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
Leviticus 7:26 Old Testament, KJV
Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.
Leviticus 13:46 Old Testament, KJV
All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.
Leviticus 23:3 Old Testament, KJV
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:14 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:17 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:21 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
Leviticus 23:31 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 25:29 Old Testament, KJV
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
Numbers 15:2 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Numbers 24:21 Old Testament, KJV
And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.
Numbers 31:10 Old Testament, KJV
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Numbers 35:29 Old Testament, KJV
So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
1 Samuel 20:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then Jonathan said to David, To morrow is the new moon: and thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty.
1 Samuel 20:25 Old Testament, KJV
And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon a seat by the wall: and Jonathan arose, and Abner sat by Saul's side, and David's place was empty.
2 Samuel 9:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.
1 Kings 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
2 Kings 2:19 Old Testament, KJV
And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren.
1 Chronicles 4:33 Old Testament, KJV
And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
1 Chronicles 6:54 Old Testament, KJV
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
1 Chronicles 7:28 Old Testament, KJV
And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
2 Chronicles 9:4 Old Testament, KJV
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
Job 29:7 Old Testament, KJV
When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
Psalms 1:1 Old Testament, KJV
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 107:4 Old Testament, KJV
They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
Psalms 107:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
Psalms 107:32 Old Testament, KJV
Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Psalms 107:36 Old Testament, KJV
And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
Psalms 132:13 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
Ezekiel 6:6 Old Testament, KJV
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
Ezekiel 6:14 Old Testament, KJV
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
Ezekiel 28:2 Old Testament, KJV
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Ezekiel 34:13 Old Testament, KJV
And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Ezekiel 37:23 Old Testament, KJV
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 48:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4186, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 9 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Kings 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 7 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H4186 FAQ

What does moshab (מוֹשָׁב) mean?

Moshab (Strong's H4186) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "seat". mowshab (mo-shawb') (or moshab {mo-shawb'}) n-m. 1. a seat 2. (figuratively) a site

How many times is moshab (מוֹשָׁב) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 43 linked usages for Strong's H4186 across 13 books.

Where can I study moshab (מוֹשָׁב) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4186 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate moshab (מוֹשָׁב)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as seat, dwelling, place, and their. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.