Definition

to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abide (behind)
• appoint
• arise
• cease
• confirm
• continue
• dwell
• be employed
• endure
• establish
• leave
• make
• ordain
• be (over)
• place
• (be) present (self)
• raise up
• remain
• repair
• serve
• set (forth
• over
• -tle
• up)
• (make to
• make to be at a
• with-) stand (by
• fast
• firm
• still
• (be at a) stay (up)
• tarry

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew 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

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.