Definition

to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary (of the same meaning, and used for it in certain tenses);

How the KJV renders it

• abide
• appoint
• bring
• continue
• covenant
• establish
• hold up
• lay
• present
• set (up)
• stanch
• stand (by
• forth
• still
• up)

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