Abode
חָצִירStrong’s H2681chatsir (cha-tsir)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chatsir is the Hebrew word usually translated “grass”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.”
Meaning
- A dwelling, an abode, settled abode, haunt
How it's translated
- grass 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
חָצִיר chatsir · abode
a dwelling, an abode, settled abode, haunt
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “abode” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ABO'DE, noun
[See Abide.]
- Stay; continuance in a place; residence for a longer or shorter time.
- A place of continuance; a dwelling; a habitation.
- To make abode to dwell or reside.
All definitions and other forms of “abode”
ABO'DE, verb transitive
[See Bode.]
To foreshow.
ABO'DE, verb intransitive
To be an omen
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.