[dwel] 
verb, dwelt or dwelled, dwell⋅ing, noun | 1. | to live or stay as a permanent resident; reside. |
| 2. | to live or continue in a given condition or state: to dwell in happiness. |
| 3. | to linger over, emphasize, or ponder in thought, speech, or writing (often fol. by on or upon): to dwell on a particular point in an argument. |
| 4. | (of a moving tool or machine part) to be motionless for a certain interval during operation. |
| 5. | Machinery.
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| dwell (dwěl) intr.v. dwelt (dwělt) or dwelled, dwell·ing, dwells
[Middle English dwellen, from Old English dwellan, to mislead, delay, dwell.] dwell'er n. |
Dwell
Tents were in primitive times the common dwellings of men. Houses were afterwards built, the walls of which were frequently of mud (Job 24:16; Matt. 6:19, 20) or of sun-dried bricks. God "dwells in light" (1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 1:7), in heaven (Ps. 123:1), in his church (Ps. 9:11; 1 John 4:12). Christ dwelt on earth in the days of his humiliation (John 1:14). He now dwells in the hearts of his people (Eph. 3:17-19). The Holy Spirit dwells in believers (1 Cor. 3:16; 2 Tim. 1:14). We are exhorted to "let the word of God dwell in us richly" (Col. 3:16; Ps. 119:11). Dwell deep occurs only in Jer. 49:8, and refers to the custom of seeking refuge from impending danger, in retiring to the recesses of rocks and caverns, or to remote places in the desert.