Couch:
kouch (substantive.).
Couch (verb): rabhats, "to crouch," "lurk," as a beast in readiness to spring on its prey. "If thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door" (Ge 4:7, the King James Version "lieth"), waiting for it to open. Cain is warned to beware of the first temptations to evil, in his case especially a sullen and jealous disposition (compare Dante, Inferno, I, 30). See ABEL; CAIN. The tribe of Judah is compared for its bravery to a recumbent lion or lioness (Ge 49:9; compare Nu 24:9 f); and Issachar to "a strong ass, couching down between the sheepfolds" (Ge 49:14, the King James Version "between two burdens"; compare Jud 5:16). "The deep that coucheth beneath" (De 33:13), probably the springs of water, or possibly, as Driver suggests, "the subterranean deep, pictured as a gigantic monster."
Written by M. O. Evans
See ABYSS
1 | Strong's Number: g2826 | Greek: klinidion |
Couch:
"a small bed," a diminutive form of kline, "a bed" (from klino, "to incline, recline"), is used in Luk 5:19, 24 of the "bed" (kline, in ver. 18) on which the palsied man was brought.
See BED.
2 | Strong's Number: g2895 | Greek: krabbatos |
Couch:
See BED, No. 4.
Couch:
SEE [BED].
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