Definition

to place (in the widest application, literally and figuratively; properly, in a passive or horizontal posture, and thus different from G2476 (ἵστημι), which properly denotes an upright and active position, while G2749 (κεῖμαι) is properly reflexive and utterly prostrate)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary (which is used only as alternate in certain tenses);

How the KJV renders it

• + advise
• appoint
• bow
• commit
• conceive
• give
• X kneel down
• lay (aside
• down
• up)
• make
• ordain
• purpose
• put
• set (forth)
• settle
• sink 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.