Definition

a spread (as if tramped flat) of loose materials for a couch, i.e. (by implication) a bough of a tree so employed

Etymology

from a primary (to "step" or "stamp");

Where the KJV renders it

• branch

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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