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What Does “Dwell” Mean in the Bible?

To live in a place. An “abode” or “dwelling place” is the house where someone lives.

Where it appears in the Bible

Matthew 2:23; Acts 1:13

What the Bible says

Matthew 2:23

And coming he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was said by prophets: That he shall be called a Nazarene.

Acts 1:13

And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode Peter and John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Jude the brother of James.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: Dictionary.com, “dwell”

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