Definition

to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain)

Etymology

or לִין; a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• abide (all night)
• continue
• dwell
• endure
• grudge
• be left
• lie all night
• (cause to) lodge (all night
• in
• -ing
• this night)
• (make to) murmur
• remain
• tarry (all night
• that night)

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.