To spread
שָׁטַחStrong’s H7849shatach (sha-tach)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shatach is the Hebrew word usually translated “spread out”, “completely” and “spread”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.”
Meaning
- To spread, spread abroad, stretch out(Qal) · (Piel) to spread out
How it's translated
- and they spread out 1
- completely 1
- and she spread 1
- spreading out 1
- i have spread out 1
- and they will spread out them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 17:19And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
- Job 12:23He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
- Psalms 88:9Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
- Jeremiah 8:2And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׁטַח shatach · to spread
1) to spread, spread abroad, stretch out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to spread 1a2) spreading, expanding (participle) 1b) (Piel) to spread out
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “completely” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COMPLETELY, adverb
Fully; perfectly; entirely.
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.