[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%97/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [מ](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/mem/)‎ / מָתַח‎

# מָתַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4969

**spread out** — 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

spread out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4969/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָתַח: vb. spread out [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4969/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. spread out (NH id.; Aramaic ܡܬܰܚ, מְתַח; Arabic مَتَحَ be long, مَتّاح long (prob. loan-word); cf. perhaps Assyrian matâḫu, direct the eyes toward);—only Impf. 3 ms. sf. וַיִּמְתָּחֵם Is 40:22 and he (י׳) hath spread them (the heavens) out as a tent to dwell in.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.22/#tree)

הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּחֲגָבִ֑ים הַנּוֹטֶ֤ה כַדֹּק֙ שָׁמַ֔יִם וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם כָּאֹ֖הֶל לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].sits above the.circle of the.earth and inhabitants its \[are\].like grasshoppers the.\[one who\].stretched.out like (the) curtain \[the\].heavens and he spread.them.out like (the) tent to dwell.in

*JPS 1917:* It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4969.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4969/): 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).