'Spreads' in the Bible
“But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his [ceremonial] cleansing, he shall show himself to the priest again.
If it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a disease.
But if the scale spreads farther on the skin after his cleansing,
“Together they lie down in the dust,And the worms cover them.
“It is He who spreads out the north over emptinessAnd hangs the earth on nothing.
“He covers the face of the full moonAnd spreads His cloud over it.
“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],And He covers the depths of the sea.
“His underparts are like sharp pieces of broken pottery;He moves across and spreads out [grooves] like a threshing sledge on the mire (muddy river banks).
A righteous man hates lies,But a wicked man is loathsome, and he acts shamefully.
A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]Is spreading a net for his own feet.
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;[It is He] who stretches out the heavens like a veilAnd spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,Who stretches out her hands, saying,“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”
“O Hope of Israel,Her Savior in time of distress and trouble,Why should You be like a sojourner (temporary resident) in the landOr like a traveler who turns aside and spreads his tent to linger [only] for a night?
“For he will be [nourished] like a tree planted by the waters,That spreads out its roots by the river;And will not fear the heat when it comes;But its leaves will be green and moist.And it will not be anxious and concerned in a year of droughtNor stop bearing fruit.
You have increased your traders more than the [visible] stars of heaven—The creeping locust strips and destroys and then flies away.
But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us spreads and makes evident everywhere the sweet fragrance of the knowledge of Him.