Etymology

From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible:

A primitive root (rather identical with “H7250”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979 through the idea of sprawling at all fours (or possibly the reverse is the order of derivation); compare “H702”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979); properly to be four (sided); used only as denominative of “H7253”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979; to be quadrate: - (four-) square (-d).