134 occurrences in 21 translations

'Spread out' in the Bible

But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

Verse ConceptsProcreationThe RainbowRainbowfruitfulnessreproductionReproduction, After Kind

The coastland peoples spread out into their lands. These are Japheth’s sons by their clans, in their nations. Each group had its own language.

Verse ConceptsClansLanguages ConfusedCoastlandsLanguages SeparatedIdentity

These are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their family records, in their nations. The nations on earth spread out from these after the flood.

Verse ConceptsNationalismNoah's Flood

So he builded there all altar and called on the name of Yahweh, and spread out there, his rent, - and the servants of Isaac cut out there a well.

Verse ConceptsAltarsCalling upon GodNomadsTentsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsExcavation

Your offspring will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out toward the west, the east, the north, and the south. All the peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.

Verse ConceptsConsistencyeastNorthOffspringSpreadingSouthNorth, South, East And WestNumerous As DustBlessing Through God's PeopleBlessings For Jew And Gentile

And he bought the portion of the field where he had spread out his tent, at the hand of the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, - for a hundred kesitahs.

Verse ConceptsProperty, LandSilverTentsReal EstateLarge Denominations

And as he oppressed them, so they became many, and so they spread out, and [the Egyptians] were afraid because of the presence of the {Israelites}.

Verse ConceptsPeople MultiplyingFearing Other PeopleAfflictions Terminating In Goodoppressionpressure

So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

Verse ConceptsSeeking For Concrete Things

And Moses said to him, When I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Jehovah: the thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah's.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodKnowing God, Nature OfPlaguesPrayer, Practicalities OfProperty, LandStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings StoppingAll Things Belong To God

And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Jehovah; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not any more poured on the earth.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of Moses And AaronElements, Control OfDivine Power Over NatureStretching OutCessationPraying For SinnersThings Stopping

And the cherubim shall spread out their wings on high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, with their faces one to another; toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.

Verse ConceptsWingsCovering The ArkFacingAngel's WingsCherubim

and the cubit on this side, and the cubit on that, in the superfluity in the length of the curtains of the tent, is spread out over the sides of the tabernacle, on this and on that, to cover it;

Verse ConceptsCovering The TabernacleSurplus

and it hath come to pass, in the passing by of Mine honour, that I have set thee in a cleft of the rock, and spread out My hands over thee, until My passing by,

Verse ConceptsGod Being Our RefugeGod's HandGod's Hands On Peoplehiding

And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

Verse ConceptsWingsCovering The ArkFacingAngel's WingsPropitiatory [Mercy Seat]Cherubim

And he will spread out the tent upon the dwelling, and will put the covering of the tent upon it from above; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Verse ConceptsCovering The Tabernacle

And over the table of the presence they will spread [out] a blue cloth and put on it the plates, dishes, and libation bowls, and the pitchers of the libation; and the bread of continuity will be on it.

Verse ConceptsTablesBowlsBlue ClothTemple Utensils In UseHallowed

The people stayed up all that day, all that night, and all through the next day, gathering quails. The one who gathered least gathered enough to fill ten omers, as they spread out all around the camp.

Verse ConceptsGluttonyExcessWeights And Measures, DryGathering FoodLabour Day And Night

even the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.'

Verse ConceptsSetting Up The Bronze AltarThings As Signs

They are spread out like valleys, like gardens on a river, like aloes planted by Yahweh, like cedars at [the] waters.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalSpreadingGardens

Moreover, he has raised accusations of impropriety by saying, 'I discovered your daughter was not a virgin,' but this is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!" The cloth must then be spread out before the city's elders.

Verse ConceptsDistinctive Clothingaccusationsvirginity

Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, so the Lord spread out his wings and took him, he lifted him up on his pinions.

Verse ConceptsNestsDivine LeadingMothers, As A SymbolWingsGod's WingsGod Carrying PeopleEaglesGod Urgingphotographysoaring

(Now she had taken them up to the roof and had hidden them in the stalks of flax she had spread out on the roof.)

Verse ConceptsFlaxHousesStoringHousetopsRooftopPeople Hiding People

They said, "We are happy to give you earrings." So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Verse ConceptsDividing The Spoil

Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land {is spread out on all sides}; God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that [is] on the earth."

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

And the ambush hasted, and they will spread out against Gibeah; and the ambush will draw out and will strike all the city with the mouth of the sword.

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

Verse ConceptsFour ThousandKilling Within Israel

So he took David down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

Verse ConceptsGluttonyFeastingExcessRevelryEating And Drinking

Now the Philistines had arrived and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

The Philistines again came up and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

Verse Conceptsreinforcement

And they bring in the ark of Jehovah, and set it up in its place, in the midst of the tent which David hath spread out for it, and David causeth to ascend burnt-offerings before Jehovah, and peace-offerings.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, EventsTents

And they spread out for Absalom the tent on the roof, and Absalom goeth in unto the concubines of his father before the eyes of all Israel.

Verse ConceptsImmorality, Examples Of SexualRoofTentsRooftopSeeing People

Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered.

Verse ConceptsClothCovering The MouthPeople Hiding PeopleIgnorant Of Facts

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.

Verse ConceptsBattle

He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple. Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub's wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub's wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub's other wing touched the second cherub's other wing in the middle of the room.

Verse ConceptsWallsAngel's Wings

The two doors, also were of olive-wood, and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim, and palm-trees, and festoons of flowers, and overlaid them with gold, - yea he spread out, over the cherubim and over the palm-trees, the gold.

Verse ConceptsSculptureCherubim, As DecorationsOverlaid With GoldCherubim Depicted

Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.

Verse ConceptsAssemblyAttitudes, in prayerPrayer, Practicalities OfThe Altar Of The LordLifting Hands

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

Verse ConceptsSelf Knowledgesupplication

When Solomon finished presenting all these prayers and requests to the Lord, he got up from before the altar of the Lord where he had kneeled and spread out his hands toward the sky.

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfThe Altar Of The LordLifting Hands

The half-tribe of Manasseh lived in the land, spread out from Bashan to Baal-hermon, including Senir and Mount Hermon.

Verse ConceptsFractions, One Half

Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the Lord our God, let us spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands, that they should gather together with us.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, God's Promises Of

And the rovers came and they will spread out in the valley of the shades.

Verse ConceptsInvasions

And the rovers will yet add, and they will spread out in the valley.

Verse ConceptsAttacking

and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and the pattern of the chariot of the cherubim of gold, which spread out their wings and cover the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsWingsCherubim, As DecorationsHeavenly Chariots

But the ark of God David brought up from the city of forests in David's preparing for it: for he spread out for It a tent in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsTentsThe Ark In Jerusalem

for the cherubim spread out their wings over the place of the ark, making a covering above the ark and its carrying poles.

He stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

Verse ConceptsThe Altar Of The Lord

Solomon had made a bronze platform and had placed it in the middle of the enclosure. It was seven and one-half feet long, seven and one-half feet wide, and four and one-half feet high. He stood on it and then got down on his knees in front of the entire assembly of Israel. He spread out his hands toward the sky,

Verse ConceptsKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfBronze Items For The Tabernacle

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesCloaksHigh Priest, In OtKneelingPrayer, Practicalities OfReverence, And ObedienceLifting HandsThose Who Tore Clothes

I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, "The work is demanding and extensive, and we are spread out on the wall, far removed from one another.

Verse ConceptsSpreading

Now the city was spread out and large, and there were not a lot of people in it. At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessFew People

And, throughout every province, whithersoever the word of the king and his edict came, was great mourning to the Jews, and fasting and weeping, and lamentation, - sackcloth and ashes, were spread out for many.

Verse ConceptsProvincesAshesWailingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Haven’t You placed a hedge around him, his household, and everything he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Verse ConceptsSatan, Work OfBlessed By GodGod's ProtectionFamily FirstProtecting Your Familypossessions

Yet was this one speaking, when, another, came in and said, The Chaldeans, appointed three chiefs, and spread out against the camels, and took them, and, the young men, smote they with the edge of the sword; and escaped am, only I alone, to tell thee.

Verse ConceptsCamelsActing AloneThree GroupsWhile Still SpeakingTaking Animals

“He thrives before the sun,And his shoots spread out over his garden.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureSpreadingThe SunSunSunshine

If thou -- thou hast prepared thy heart, And hast spread out unto Him thy hands,

Verse ConceptsSurrenderingHeart, And Holy SpiritPrayer, Offered WithPreparationSurrender

Making great to the nations, and he will destroy them: he spread out to the nations, and he will guide them.

Verse ConceptsGod, Activity OfGod's Activity In The NationsEzekiel Invasion

If I wait -- Sheol is my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

My roots have spread out and have found water, and dew settles at night on my branches.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Figurative UsesdewMetaphorical Watering

Can anyone understand how the clouds spread outor how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceThunderUnderstanding

Lo! he hath spread out over it, his lightning, The bed of the sea, hath he covered.

Verse ConceptsOceansCreation Of The Seas

You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;Then you planted and established them (Israel);[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,Then You spread them abroad.

Verse Conceptsdriving outHeathenGod TroublingThe Lord Drove Them OutGod's People Planted

If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,

Verse ConceptsNeglecting God's Thingslukewarm

In a day of my distress the Lord I sought, My hand by night hath been spread out, And it doth not cease, My soul hath refused to be comforted.

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofNo ComfortHealing And ComfortOvercoming Hard TimesGetting Through Hard TimesFeeling Lostproblemssoultired

Its branches spread out to the Mediterranean Sea and its shoots to the Euphrates River.

Verse ConceptsAs Far As The Euphrates

Mine eye hath grieved because of affliction, I called Thee, O Jehovah, all the day, I have spread out unto Thee my hands.

Verse ConceptsDaily DutyUnceasingEyes HarmedAlways PrayingI Pray

He spread out a cloud to be a covering, and fire to give light in the night season.

Verse ConceptsCoveringDivine ManifestationsLight, NaturalGod Appearing In Fireclouds

to the one who spread out the earth over the waters, for his gracious love is everlasting

If I ascend the heavens -- there Thou art, And spread out a couch in Sheol, lo, Thee!

Verse ConceptsThe DeadAfterlifeClimbingThe Fact Of DeathGoing To Heaven

[The] proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords. They have spread out a net along [the] {side} of [the] path. They have set snares for me. Selah

Verse ConceptsHuntingNetsPride, Results OfTrapSnares Laid for PeopleHidden ThingsMan TrappingPsalm Interjections

Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

Verse ConceptsNetsInstinctUseless LabourThings Manifest

Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet - worms!

Verse ConceptsHarpsCovering The BodyMusical Instruments, types ofHumbling The ProudPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsNo Musicworms

For the fields of Heshbon wither, as well as the vines of Sibmah. The rulers of the nations have struck down its choicest vines, which once reached Jazer and pushed to the desert. Its shoots spread out and passed over the sea."

Verse ConceptsDestroying Vineyards

The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water's surface will grieve.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

They set the table, they spread out the cloth, they eat, they drink;“Rise up, captains, oil the shields,”

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilOfficersShieldsTablesAnointing ThingsEating And Drinking

And he will spread out his hands in the middle of itAs a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,But the Lord will lay low his pride together with the trickery of his hands.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilitySkillConquestSwimming

For the fortified city will be deserted,pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.Calves will graze there,and there they will spread out and strip its branches.

Verse ConceptsChaosCities Under AttackEmpty CitiesChaos As JudgmentHomestead

Your tackle hangs slack;It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly,Nor spread out the sail.Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided;The lame will take the plunder.

Verse ConceptsShipsDividing The Spoil

But Pelicans, Storks, great Owls, and Ravens shall have it in possession, and dwell therein. For God shall spread out the line of desolation upon it, and weight it with the stones of emptiness.

Verse ConceptsChaosRavensPlumb LineCrowsOwlsPelicansHedgehogsDwellings Of CreaturesOther Dwellings Of CreaturesChaos As Judgment

Thus says God the Lord,Who created the heavens and stretched them out,Who spread out the earth and its offspring,Who gives breath to the people on itAnd spirit to those who walk in it,

Verse ConceptsBreath Of LifeChaosGod, The CreatorGod, The LordCreation Of The Physical HeavensSpirit, Fallen And RedeemedMan, Creation OfGod Giving Breatha new beginningGod's Creationbreathingbreath

For thus sayeth the LORD thy redeemer, even he that fashioned thee from thy mother's womb: I am the LORD, which do all things myself alone. I only have spread out the heavens, and I only have laid the foundation of the earth.

Verse ConceptsGod, Feminine Descriptions OfAbortionBaby dedicationArtificial InseminationEarth, Creation OfGod, The CreatorUniverseGod HimselfmyselfOccult Being Powerless Before God

and forgettest the LORD that made thee, that spread out the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth? But thou art ever afraid for the sight of thine oppressor, which is ready to do harm: Where is the wrath of the oppressor?

Verse ConceptsFoundations

Make thy tent wider, and spread out the hangings of thine habitation: spare not, lay forth thy cords, and make fast thy stakes:

Verse ConceptsDevelopmentStretching OutRopesCordsEnlargementSpiritual ProgressPegsspacecredibility

For you will spread out to the right and to the left; your children will conquer nations and will resettle desolate cities.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCities In IsraelMaking Decisionslimitationscredibility

Like this, shall the fast be that I choose, A day for the son of earth to humble his soul? Is it to bow down as a rush his head, And sackcloth and ashes, to spread out? Is it, this, thou wilt call a fast, Or a day of acceptance with Yahweh?

Verse ConceptsHumilityReedsSackcloth And AshesBowing Heads Before GodAshes Of HumiliationHow To FastHumbling OneselfFastingHumble Yourselfhumbleness

The prophets prophesied in falsehood, and the priests will spread out with their hands; and my people loved it thus: and what will ye do to its last part

Verse ConceptsSelf DeceptionCorrupt PriestsWicked ProphetsLoving EvilDirectionprophets

They'll be spread out to the sun, the moon, and all the stars of the heavens, which they loved and served, and which they followed, consulted, and worshipped. Their bones won't be collected, nor will they be buried. They'll be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligiondirtAstrologyMoonStarsDefecationBonesNo BurialsIdolatrous Worship Of The MoonGod Judging Star WorshippersThe Moon

Spread-out silver from Tarshish is brought, And gold from Uphaz, Work of an artisan, and of the hands of a refiner, Blue and purple is their clothing, Work of the skilful -- all of them.

Verse ConceptsColors, BlueGoldSilverSkillToolsWisdom, Human NatureCommercePurple ClothesSkilled Peopleartistscraftsmanship

But as for our God, he made the earth with his power, and with his wisdom hath he finished the whole compass of the world; with his discretion hath he spread out the heavens.

Verse ConceptsEarth, Creation OfGod, Wisdom OfCreation Of The Physical HeavensPower, Of GodPower Of God, ShownGod's Creation

My tabernacle is destroyed, and all my cords are broken. My children are gone from me, and can nowhere be found. Now have I none to spread out my tent, or to set up my hangings.

Verse ConceptsStretching OutTentsPeople Passing AwayUndoing FasteningsNo One To Be Found

They will be like a tree planted near a stream whose roots spread out toward the water. It has nothing to fear when the heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no need to be concerned in a year of drought. It does not stop bearing fruit.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenSpring Of WaterUnfading LifeThe Source Of FruitRiver BanksWater For PlantsHot WeatherGreenWater, As A Symbol Of LifeRiversOlive TreesAnxiety And FearWorrying

and say to them, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel: "Look, I [am] going to send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden. And he will spread out his canopy over them.

Verse Conceptselection, responsibilities ofCivil authoritiesAuthority, of human institutionsMinistry, Nature OfThrone

Bible Theasaurus

Disperse (14 instances)
Dissipate (1 instance)
Expand (7 instances)
Fanned (2 instances)
Scatter (87 instances)
Spread (323 instances)
Spread-Out (2 instances)
Unfold (5 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
φανερός 
Phaneros 
Usage: 15

ἐκχέω ἐκχύνω 
Ekcheo 
Usage: 20

ἐξάγω 
Exago 
Usage: 12

διανέμω 
Dianemo 
Usage: 1

διαφημίζω 
Diaphemizo 
Usage: 3

στρώννυμι 
Stronnumi 
Usage: 5

ὑποστρώννυμι 
Hupostronnumi 
Usage: 1

ἀνασπάω 
Anaspao 
Usage: 1

ἀποσυνάγωγος 
Aposunagogos 
be put out of the synagogue 9 , put out of the synagogue
Usage: 2

ἐκβάλλω 
Ekballo 
Usage: 43

ἐξέρχομαι 
Exerchomai 
go out , come , depart , go , go forth , come out , come forth ,
Usage: 164

ἔξω 
Exo 
Usage: 50

επανάγω 
Epanago 
Usage: 2

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