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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Couch:

(Gen 49:4; 1Ch 5:1; Job 7:13; Psa 6:6, etc.), a seat for repose or rest. (See BED.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

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

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
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.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Couch:

SEE [BED].

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