מָתַח
mâthach · H4969 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to spread out
To spread out a piece of cloth or a comparable object in such a way that it covers an as large as possible area
ExamplesIsaiah 40:22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to live in.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- כlike/as+ אֹהֶלtent 1
- לto/for+ יָשַׁבto dwell, to live, to sit 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- פָּרַשׂ pâras · H6566 · to spread out
- פָּרַשׂ denotes spreading out or expanding something over a surface, commonly used for spreading garments, wings, or hands. It shares the core spreading/extending semantics with מָתַח in spatial contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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- מָתַח denotes stretching or spreading something out, its sole occurrence at Isaiah 40:22 describing the LORD who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, associating the word with extending or spreading a material into an expanded form.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4969. mathach [מָתַח] verb spread out (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic , מְתַח; Arabic be long,…
[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 Isa 40:22 and he (׳י) hath spread them (the heavens) out as a tent to dwell in.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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