Strong’s H7502 · Hebrew

רָפַד
râphad
raw-fad'

Definition

to spread (a bed); by implication, to refresh

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • comfort
  • make (a bed)
  • spread

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.