Definition

to crouch (on all four legs folded, like a recumbent animal); be implication, to recline, repose, brood, lurk, imbed

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• crouch (down)
• fall down
• make a fold
• lay
• (cause to
• make to) lie (down)
• make to rest
• sit

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.