Definition

to prop (literally or figuratively); reflexively, to lean upon or take hold of (in a favorable or unfavorable sense)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• bear up
• establish
• (up-) hold
• lay
• lean
• lie hard
• put
• rest self
• set self
• stand fast
• stay (self)
• sustain

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.