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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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COUCH . See House, § 8 . The verb ‘to couch’ occurs in Deuteronomy 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.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Couch'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​c/couch.html. 1909.
 
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