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title: מָתַח — spread out · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָתַח (4969), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: spread out. BDB 1906: vb. spread out. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָתַח

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«מָתַח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **spread out** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4969 · **BDB:** מָתַח

### Glosses

he (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָתַח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4969/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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