Definition

properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• (make to) abide(-ing)
• continue
• (cause to
• make to) dwell(-ing)
• ease self
• endure
• establish
• fail
• habitation
• haunt
• (make to) inhabit(-ant)
• make to keep (house)
• lurking
• marry(-ing)
• (bring again to) place
• remain
• return
• seat
• set(-tle)
• (down-) sit(-down
• still
• -ting down
• -ting (place) -uate)
• take
• tarry

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.