Definition

to bend beside, i.e. lean over (so as to peer within)

Etymology

from G3844 (παρά) and G2955 (κύπτω);

Where the KJV renders it

• look (into)
• stoop down

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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