Settle

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) A seat of any kind.

(2): ( n.) A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part.

(3): ( n.) A bench; especially, a bench with a high back.

(4): ( n.) To clear of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; - said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.

(5): ( n.) To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; - said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.

(6): ( n.) To cause to sink; to lower; to depress; hence, also, to render close or compact; as, to settle the contents of a barrel or bag by shaking it.

(7): ( n.) To determine, as something which is exposed to doubt or question; to free from unscertainty or wavering; to make sure, firm, or constant; to establish; to compose; to quiet; as, to settle the mind when agitated; to settle questions of law; to settle the succession to a throne; to settle an allowance.

(8): ( n.) To adjust, as something in discussion; to make up; to compose; to pacify; as, to settle a quarrel.

(9): ( n.) To adjust, as accounts; to liquidate; to balance; as, to settle an account.

(10): ( n.) Hence, to pay; as, to settle a bill.

(11): ( n.) To cause to be no longer in a disturbed condition; to render quiet; to still; to calm; to compose.

(12): ( v. i.) To become fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state.

(13): ( v. i.) To fix one's residence; to establish a dwelling place or home; as, the Saxons who settled in Britain.

(14): ( v. i.) To enter into the married state, or the state of a householder.

(15): ( v. i.) To be established in an employment or profession; as, to settle in the practice of law.

(16): ( v. i.) To become firm, dry, and hard, as the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared; as, the roads settled late in the spring.

(17): ( v. i.) To become clear after being turbid or obscure; to clarify by depositing matter held in suspension; as, the weather settled; wine settles by standing.

(18): ( v. i.) To sink to the bottom; to fall to the bottom, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reserveir.

(19): ( v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc.

(20): ( v. i.) To become calm; to cease from agitation.

(21): ( v. i.) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement; as, he has settled with his creditors.

(22): ( v. i.) To make a jointure for a wife.

(23): ( n.) To place in a fixed or permanent condition; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish; to fix; esp., to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, or the like.

(24): ( n.) To establish in the pastoral office; to ordain or install as pastor or rector of a church, society, or parish; as, to settle a minister.

(25): ( n.) To plant with inhabitants; to colonize; to people; as, the French first settled Canada; the Puritans settled New England; Plymouth was settled in 1620.

King James Dictionary

SET'TLE, n. L. sedile. See Set. A seat or bench something to sit on.

SET'TLE, from set.

1. To place in a permanent condition after wandering or fluctuation.

I will settle you after your old estates.  Ezekiel 36 .

2. To fix to establish to make permanent in any place.

I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever.  1 Chronicles 17 .

3. To establish in business or way of life as, to settle a son in trade. 4. To marry as, to settle a doughter. 5. To establish to confirm.

Her will alone could settle or revoke. Prior.

6. To determine what is uncertain to establish to free from doubt as, to settle questions or points of law. The supreme court have settled the question. 7. To fix to establish to make certain or permanent as, to settle the succession to the thron in a particular family. So we speak of settled habits and settled opinions. 8. To fix or establish not to suffer to doubt or waver.

It will settle teh wavering and confirm the doubtful. Swift.

9. To make close or compact.

Cover ant-hills up that the rain may settle the turf before the spring.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Τίθημι (Strong'S #5087 — Verb — tithemi — tith'-ay-mee )

"to put, place," is translated "settle (it therefore in your hearts)" in  Luke 21:14 , Active Voice in the best texts (some have the Middle), the aorist tense signifying complete decision, i.e., "resolve" (not "consider"); cp.  Acts 5:4 , "to conceive in the heart," and contrast  Luke 1:66 , "to lay up" (both have aorist tense, Middle Voice). See Appoint , No. 3.

 1—Peter 5:10 Colossians 1:23Determine

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Settle (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] ‘ledge’).   Ezekiel 43:14 (only) as tr. [Note: translate or translation.] of ‘ăz ârâh , which is used of the two ledges between the base and the hearth of the altar.