שָׁטַח
sha.tach
“to spread”
Definition
to expand
a primitive root;
- to spread, spread abroad, stretch out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to spread 1a2) spreading, expanding (participle) 1b) (Piel) to spread out
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
שָׁטַח appears 4 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.
He makes nations great and destroys them;He enlarges nations, then disperses them.
All that day and night, and all the next day, the people stayed up gathering the quail. No one gathered less than ten homers, and they spread them out all around the camp.
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