Bestead

Bestead - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

The rendering in Isa. 8:21, where alone it occurs, of a Hebrew word meaning to oppress, or be in circumstances of hardship.

Bestead - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BESTEAD', v.t. bested' pret.and pp. bested. [be and stead.] To profit.

How little you bestead.

1. To accommodate.

They shall pass through it, hardly bestead. Isa 8.

That is, distressed; perplexed.

2. To dispose.

be-sted' (niqsheh, "caught in a snare," "entrapped"; as Judah hard pressed in their own land by the Assyrians (Isa 8:21 the King James Version)): Found only here. Old English word steden meaning "place," hence, "set," "beset"; usually with "ill," "sorely bested." In the Revised Version (British and American) rendered "sore distressed."