Definition

to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

• at all
• cast down
• (lover-)lay (self) (down)
• (make to) lie (down
• down to sleep
• still with)
• lodge
• ravish
• take rest
• sleep
• stay

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

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