KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

properly to fasten (or make {firm }) that {is} to close (the eyes)

an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)

properly to plait or {interpenetrate} that {is} (literally) to weave or (generally) to fabricate; figuratively to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to {think} regard: {value} compute

a perversity or fraud

to {pinch} that {is} (partially) to bite the {lips} blink the eyes (as a gesture of {malice}) or (fully) to squeeze off (a piece of clay in order to mould a vessel from it)

Probably from H5595 or H8192 through the idea of termination (compare H5490); the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication language; by analogy a margin (of a {vessel} {water} {cloth} etc.)

to {end} whether intransitively (to {cease} be {finished} perish) or transitively (to {complete} {prepare } consume)