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# מֻטָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4298

**spreading** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

spreading [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4298/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֻטָּה: n.f. spreading, outspreading [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4298/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. spreading, outspreading;—only pl. cstr. מֻטּוֹת כְּנָפָיו Is 8:8 the outspreading of his wings (cf. Ges§ 145 o Köii. 1, 192, 399), fig. of invading Assyrian army.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the spreading(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.8.8/#tree)

וְחָלַ֤ף בִּֽיהוּדָה֙ שָׁטַ֣ף וְעָבַ֔ר עַד־צַוָּ֖אר יַגִּ֑יעַ וְהָיָה֙ מֻטּ֣וֹת כְּנָפָ֔יו מְלֹ֥א רֹֽחַב־אַרְצְךָ֖ עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל עִמָּ֥נוּ אֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.will.pass.on in Judah it.will.overflow and it.will.pass.over to \[the\].neck it.will.reach and it.will.be the.spreading(s) its.wings his the.fullness of.the.breadth your.land your O Immanuel

*JPS 1917:* And he shall sweep through Judah overflowing as he passeth through he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4298.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4298/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).