Couple
King James Dictionary [1]
COUPLE, n. L. G.
1. Two of the same species or kind, and near in place, or considered together as a couple of men a couple or oranges. I have planted a couple of cherry trees. We cannot call a horse and an ox a couple, unless we add a generic term. Of a horse and ox feeding in a pasture, we should say, a couple of animals. Among huntsmen and soldiers, brace is used for couple as a brace of ducks a brace or pistols. Couple differs from pair, which implies strictly not only things of the same kind, but likeness, equality or customary association. A pair is a couple but a couple may or may not be a pair. 2. Two things of any kind connected or linked together. 3. A male and female connected by marriage, betrothed or allied as a married couple a young couple. 4. That which links or connects two things together a chain.
COUPLE,
1. To link, chain or connect one thing with another to sew or fasten together.
Thou shalt couple the curtains with taches. Exodus 26 .
2. To marry to wed to unite, as husband and wife.
COUPLE, To embrace, as the sexes.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): (a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed.
(2): (a.) That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.
(3): (a.) Two of the same kind connected or considered together; a pair; a brace.
(4): (a.) See Couple-close.
(5): (a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; - called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.
(6): (a.) Two rotations, movements, etc., which are equal in amount but opposite in direction, and acting along parallel lines or around parallel axes.
(7): (v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.
(8): (v.) To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join.
(9): (v. i.) To come together as male and female; to copulate.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
kup ´' l :
(1) Used as a noun, indicates two objects of the same kind that are considered together. Thus we read of a couple of cakes ( 2 Samuel 13:6 , used loosely), and a couple of asses ( 2 Samuel 16:1 , Hebrew cemedh ).
(2) Used as a verb, it means to join or fasten one thing to another. This term occurs most frequently in the description of the tabernacle (see Exodus 26:6 , Exodus 26:9 , Exodus 26:11; Exodus 36:10 , Exodus 36:13 , Exodus 36:16 ). Couple is used in 1 Peter 3:2 to describe the joining of fear to chaste behavior (Hebrew ḥābhar ).
