23 occurrences

'Inhabitants' in the Bible

“And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,Judge between Me and My vineyard.

“Then He shall become a sanctuary;But to both the houses of Israel, a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

And all the people know it,That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:

For he has said,“By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this,For I have understanding;And I removed the boundaries of the peoplesAnd plundered their treasures,And like a mighty man I brought down their inhabitants,

Madmenah has fled.The inhabitants of Gebim have sought refuge.

All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it,And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

So the inhabitants of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, such is our hope, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria; and we, how shall we escape?’”

Bring water for the thirsty,O inhabitants of the land of Tema,Meet the fugitive with bread.

And I will clothe him with your tunicAnd tie your sash securely about him.I will entrust him with your authority,And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,You merchants of Sidon;Your messengers crossed the sea

Pass over to Tarshish;Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

Behold, the Lord lays the earth waste, devastates it, distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants.

The earth is also polluted by its inhabitants, for they transgressed laws, violated statutes, broke the everlasting covenant.

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

At night my soul longs for You,Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;For when the earth experiences Your judgmentsThe inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

For behold, the Lord is about to come out from His placeTo punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity;And the earth will reveal her bloodshedAnd will no longer cover her slain.

“Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,They were dismayed and put to shame;They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

I said, “I will not see the Lord,The Lord in the land of the living;I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,Who stretches out the heavens like a curtainAnd spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices,The settlements where Kedar inhabits.Let the inhabitants of Sela sing aloud,Let them shout for joy from the tops of the mountains.

“For your waste and desolate places and your destroyed land—Surely now you will be too cramped for the inhabitants,And those who swallowed you will be far away.

“Lift up your eyes to the sky,Then look to the earth beneath;For the sky will vanish like smoke,And the earth will wear out like a garmentAnd its inhabitants will die in like manner;But My salvation will be forever,And My righteousness will not wane.

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גּוּר 
Guwr 
Usage: 98

דּוּר 
Duwr (Aramaic) 
Usage: 7

ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

שׁכן 
Shaken 
Usage: 20

κατοικέω 
Katoikeo 
Usage: 40

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