Definition

properly, to incline; by implication, to decline (of the slanting rays of evening); specifically, to pitch atent; gen. to encamp (for abode or siege)

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H2603 (חָנַן));

Word family

• חָנַן chânan

How the KJV renders it

• abide (in tents)
• camp
• dwell
• encamp
• grow to an end
• lie
• pitch (tent)
• rest in tent

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.