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To spread

פָּשָׂהStrong’s H6581

pasah (pa-sah)

Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Pasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it has spread”, “certainly” and “it will spread”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:”
Leviticus 13:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. (Qal) to spread
How it's translated
  • it has spread 14
  • certainly 4
  • it will spread 4

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Leviticus 18

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

פָּשָׂה pasah · to spread

(Qal) to spread

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “certainly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CERTAINLY, adverb

  1. Without doubt or question; in truth and fact.“CERTAINLY this was a righteous man” Luke 23:47
  2. Without failure.“He said, I will certainly return to thee” Genesis 18:10

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.