Hebrew word · H4969
מָתַח
vaiyimtachem
to spread
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
(Qal) to spread out
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
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Where it appears
Isaiah · 1
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Isaiah 40:22 וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם and he spread out them
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Here: This word occurs only here. It means to stretch something out or spread it like canvas, and it carries on the tent-pitching picture of the previous verb.
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