'Stretched' in the Bible

When he heard the man of God curse the altar in Bethel, the king pointed at the man of God from where the king was standing at the altar. "Seize him!" he ordered. But all of a sudden his hand that he had stretched out dried up, and he could not bring it back to his side!

Then he stretched himself three times and cried out to the LORD, "LORD my God, please cause the soul of this little boy to return to him."