James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Couch

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Couch


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COUCH.—See House, § 8. The verb ‘to couch’ occurs in Deu_33:13 ‘the deep that coucheth beneath.’ The word means simply to lie down, but it is used almost exclusively of animals, as is the Heb. word also. The subterranean deep, says Driver, is perhaps pictured as a gigantic monster.