Lexicon mathach: to spread out Original Word: מָתַחPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: mathach Phonetic Spelling: (maw-thakh') Short Definition: spreads NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto spread out NASB Translationspreads (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs [ מָתַח] verb spread out (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic  , מְתַח; Arabic  be long,  long (probably load-word); compare perhaps Assyrian matâ—u, direct the eyes toward); — only Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיִּמְתָּחֵם Isaiah 40:22 and he (׳י) hath spread them (the heavens) out as a tent to dwell in.
Strong's spread out A primitive root; to stretch out -- spread out. |
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