International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Haunt

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Haunt


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hônt, hant: The verb in Old English was simply “to resort to,” “frequent”; a place of dwelling or of business was a haunt. The noun occurs in as the translation of reghel, “foot,” “See his place where his haunt is,” the Revised Version margin, “Hebrew 'foot'”; the verb is the translation of yāshabh, “to sit down,” “to dwell” (, “on all that haunt it,” the Revised Version (British and American) “dwelt there,” margin “inhabited her”), and of hālakh, “to go,”' or “live” (, “all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt”).