KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: Residing, remaining, or abiding. Sense 2: A habitation, home, resting place, or territory.
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 10:30
Complete exact-word concordance
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for euer, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their owne names.
1611 marginal noteHeb. to generation and generation.
Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling.
Like sheepe they are layd in the graue, death shall feede on them; and the vpright shall haue dominion ouer them in the morning, and their beauty shall consume in the graue, from their dwelling.
1611 marginal noteOr, strength
1611 marginal noteOr, the graue being an habitation to euery one of them.
God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
God shall likewise destroy thee for euer, hee shall take thee away and plucke thee out of thy dwelling place, and roote thee out of the land of the liuing. Selah.
1611 marginal noteHeb. beate thee downe.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
They haue cast fire into thy Sanctuary, they haue defiled by casting downe, the dwelling place of thy Nawe to the ground.
1611 marginal noteHebr. they bene sent thy Sanctuarie into the fire.
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Sion.
For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place.
For they haue deuoured Iacob: and laid waste his dwelling place.
LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
¶ LORD, thou hast bene our dwelling place in all generations.
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
There shall no euill befall thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
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Historical English dictionary sources
Inhabiting; residing; sojourning; continuing with fixed attention. DWELL'ING, noun Habitation; place of residence; abode. Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons. Jeremiah 49:33. 1. Continuance; residence; state of life. Thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. Daniel 4:25.
