81 occurrences in 12 translations

'Spreading' in the Bible

And the cherubs have been spreading out wings on high, covering the mercy-seat over with their wings, and their faces are one towards another -- towards the mercy-seat are the faces of the cherubs.

Verse ConceptsWingsCovering The ArkFacingAngel's WingsCherubim

and the cherubs are spreading out wings on high, covering over the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces are one towards another; towards the mercy-seat have the faces of the cherubs been.

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

If, however, the scab is spreading further on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his purification, then he must show himself to the priest a second time.

Verse ConceptsSpreading

The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then he shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

Verse ConceptsSpreading

If it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is an infection.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingAbscess

The priest must then examine it on the seventh day, and if it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is a diseased infection.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingThe Seventh Day Of The WeekDay 7

And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCordsAnimal Skinsmold

"When you have come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put a spreading mildew in a house in the land of your possession,

Verse ConceptsInvasionsmold

then the priest shall come and look again, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is [ceremonially] unclean.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingInspectingUnclean Thingsmold

So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—

Verse ConceptsDiscontentSpying

Like an eagle stirs its nest, hovering near its young, spreading out his wings to take him and carry him on his pinions,

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

No, my sons; for the report that I keep hearing from the passers-by among the Lord’s people is not good.

Verse ConceptsThe Saints, Without Offence

The battle there was spreading over the surface of all the land, and {the forest devoured more among the army than} the sword [did] on that day.

Verse ConceptsBattle

For the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark In The TempleCherubim

whatever prayer or petitionanyone from Your people Israel might have—each man knowing his own afflictionsand spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Verse ConceptsSelf Knowledgesupplication

and for the altar of perfume refined gold by weight, and for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubs of gold -- spreading and covering over the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsWingsCherubim, As DecorationsHeavenly Chariots

The wings of these cherubs are spreading forth twenty cubits, and they are standing on their feet and their faces are inward.

and the cherubs are spreading out wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs cover over the ark, and over its staves, from above;

whatever prayer or petitionanyone from your people Israel might have—each man knowing his own affliction and suffering,and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

Verse ConceptsStretching Out

and at the spreading forth of the thing have the sons of Israel multiplied the first-fruit of corn, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field, and the tithe of the whole in abundance they have brought in.

Verse ConceptsSeedStoring

Then I replied to him, “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Verse ConceptsHeadsIndividuals Who LiedEverything Happening For A Reasonimaginationrumors

Mordecai was of high rank in the king's palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence continued to become greater and greater.

Verse ConceptsFameProvinces

He is a fresh sapling planted in the sunlight, spreading out its branches over its garden.

Verse ConceptsGarden, NaturalHorticultureSpreadingThe SunSunSunshine

Magnifying the nations, and He destroyeth them, Spreading out the nations, and He quieteth them.

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

He obscures the view of His throne,spreading His cloud over it.

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceAstronomyThe Moon

“Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds,The thundering of His pavilion?

Verse ConceptsClouds, God's PresenceThunderUnderstanding

"Is it by your understanding that the hawk flies, spreading its wings toward the south?

Verse ConceptsSouthBirds, Types Of BirdsHawksFacing SouthFalconsflyingsoaring

His undersides are jagged potsherds,spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

Verse ConceptsThreshingThings UnderMarshes

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

Verse ConceptsColors, GreenAffluenceWicked Described AsPursuing ViolenceAbuse

The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.

Verse ConceptsFaultsSinful HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedSpreading Storiesgossiping

To Him spreading the earth over the waters, For to the age is His kindness.

A man who flatters his neighborIs spreading a net for his steps.

Verse ConceptsFlatteryNetsMan Trapping

It will pour into Judah,flood over it, and sweep through,reaching up to the neck;and its spreading streamswill fill your entire land, Immanuel!

Verse ConceptsNecksPresent, TheGod With You

For before the harvest, when the season of budding is over, and sour grapes ripen into mature grapes, he cuts off the shoots with pruning knives, clearing away the spreading branches as he lops them off.

Verse ConceptsPruningKnivesToolsCutting Off Branches

And lamented have the fishers, And mourned have all casting angle into a brook, And those spreading nets on the face of the waters have languished.

Verse ConceptsFishesLamentingNetsOccupationsFishermen

this iniquity of yours will belike a spreading breach,a bulge in a high wallwhose collapse will come in an instant—suddenly!

Verse ConceptsSin, God's Judgment OnWallsAfflictions Of The WickedThe Insecurity Of The WickedSudden DestructionSuddenlyThings Falling

For fools utter contempt, and their minds plot wrong things: practicing ungodliness, spreading lies about the LORD, leaving the pangs of hungry people unsatisfied, and depriving thirsty people of drink.

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMind, The HumanMorality, And CreationSin, Nature OfHypocrites, Description OfMischiefBeing MisleadStingy PeopleErrorHypocrisy

Thus said God, Jehovah, preparing The heavens, and stretching them out, Spreading out the earth and its productions, Giving breath to the people on it, And spirit to those walking 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

Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, And thy framer from the womb: 'I am Jehovah, doing all things, Stretching out the heavens by Myself, Spreading out the earth -- who is with Me?

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

you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?

Verse ConceptsChild sacrificeSanctity Of LifeOaksKilling Sons And Daughters

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?Is it for bowing one’s head like a reedAnd for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?

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

For I heard a voice like an ill woman, anxiety like [a woman who] bears her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion. She is gasping for breath, she is spreading out her hands: "Woe is me, for I am becoming tired before killers."

Verse ConceptsPunishment, Nature OfVoicesLabour PainsHaving No BreathFaintingJudged As Murderers

Do not go out into the countryside. Do not travel on the roads. For the enemy is there with sword in hand. They are spreading terror everywhere."

Verse ConceptsRoadsAmbushWar As God's JudgmentGoing OutsideFear Will Come

All are stubborn rebelsspreading slander.They are bronze and iron;all of them are corrupt.

Verse ConceptsBackbitingRebellion, Of IsraelWicked Described AsSpreading StoriesThings Like Bronzeapostasy

Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.

Verse ConceptsWingsLabour PainsGod's WingsEaglessoaring

And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingSprouting PlantsSmall ThingsSproutingThose Subjected To People

It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

Verse ConceptsNetsSpreadingFishing

And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingNeverEmpty CitiesThings StrippedFishing

And it hath come to pass, fishers do stand by it, from En-Gedi even unto En-Eglaim; a spreading place of nets they are; according to their own kind is their fish, as the fish of the great sea, very many.

Verse ConceptsNetsSpreadingSeaMediterranean SeaFishingKinds Of Living Things

a day of darkness and gloom,a day of clouds and dense overcast,like the dawn spreading over the mountains;a great and strong people appears,such as never existed in ages pastand never will againin all the generations to come.

Verse ConceptsBlackLargenessDark DaysUnique EventsLarge Armies

A very large crowd spread their robes on the road; others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingCutting Off BranchesCrowds Around JesusFoliageUsing Roads

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news [of his healing], to such an extent that Jesus could no longer openly enter a city [where He was known], but stayed out in the unpopulated places; yet people were still coming to Him from everywhere.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGod's Deed RevealedTemporary Stay In The Wildernesslonliness

Jesus ordered the people not to tell anyone, but the more he kept ordering them, the more they kept spreading the news.

Verse ConceptsUnwise ZealGrowth In ProclamationChrist Concealing ThingsSpreading StoriesChrist's Orders

Many spread their garments on the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and spreading them on the road.

Verse ConceptsSpreadingFoliageUsing Roads

But the news about Him was spreading even farther, and large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.

Verse ConceptsHealingFameInfirmitiesSecret PrayerHearing ChristJesus HealingTelling Of JesusComing Together

So they left and went from village to village, spreading the good news and healing diseases everywhere.

Verse ConceptsMiracles, Nature OfMission, Of The ChurchHealing Through DisciplesSpreading The Gospel

The Law and the Prophets continued until John came: from that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been spreading, and all classes have been forcing their way into it.

Verse Conceptsevangelists, identity ofJohn The BaptistKingdom Of God, Coming OfKingship, DivineLaw, Jesus Christ's Attitude ToPursuing ViolenceChrist PreachingThe Law ProclaimedWritten In The Prophetsthe Law of mosespreachingprophets

As He was going along, they were spreading their robes on the road.

Verse ConceptsUsing Roads

But to keep it from spreading any further among the people, let us warn them never again to speak to anyone in this name."

Verse ConceptsSpreadingPersecution, Forms OfWitnessing, And Holy SpiritSpeaking In Christ's NameSpreading The Gospel

The word of God kept on spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of FaithFaith, As A Body Of BeliefsGrowthProgressChurch, IncreasingAdditionsGrowth In ProclamationMany In The ChurchObeying The GospelThose Who Had FaithUnnamed PriestsSpreading The Gospelgroupspriests

So the word of the Lord was spreading through the entire region.

Verse ConceptsLordship, Human And DivineSpreadingSpreading The Gospel

To Him who has it in His power to make you strong, as declared in the Good News which I am spreading, and the proclamation concerning Jesus Christ, in harmony with the unveiling of the Truth which in the periods of past Ages remained unuttered,

Verse ConceptsConcealment, Of GodMysteryStabilityAbility, God's PowerThe AlmightyThe Mystery Of ChristGod Establishes UsStrengthened Through Christ

With him we have sent the brother who is praised in all the churches for spreading the gospel.

Verse ConceptsCommendation

Now I want you to know, believers, that what has happened to me [this imprisonment that was meant to stop me] has actually served to advance [the spread of] the good news [regarding salvation].

Verse ConceptsBeneficial Affliction In Furthering The GospelAfflictions, Benefits OfGrowth In ProclamationThe Gospel PreachedServingEverything Happening For A ReasonSpreading The Gospelpartnershiptrails

Indeed, I ask you too, my true companion, to help these women [to keep on cooperating], for they have shared my struggle in the [cause of the] gospel, together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceAliancesBook of lifeHelpfulnessLoyaltyYokesWhat Heaven Will Be LikePeople HelpingUnconditional LoveHelping Those In Needpartnership

that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and spreading all over the world, so it has been doing among you from the day you heard it and came to know the grace of God in truth.

Verse ConceptsGrowthResponseMissionary WorkGrowth In ProclamationBeginning Of SalvationFruitful LabourThe Truth Of The GospelThe Gospel WorldwideThe Grace Of GodUnderstanding God's WordGod's GraceGrowingSpreading The GospelChange And Growth

and so we sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in [spreading] the good news of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you [exhorting, comforting, and establishing you] in regard to your faith,

Verse Conceptsencouragement, examples ofEdification, Examples OfServants Of The LordEncouraging DoubtersSpecific Cases Of StrengtheningThose Who Had FaithFellow WorkersEncouragementSpreading The Gospel

Paul, a bondservant of God and an Apostle of Jesus Christ for building up the faith of God's own people and spreading a full knowledge of the truths of religion,

Verse ConceptsApostles, Function In Early ChurchFaith, Nature OfChristiansLettersPaul, Apostle To GentilesNames And Titles For The ChristianMaintaining FaithKnowing God's TruthThe Truth Of The Gospel

For this reason, when I come I will call attention to what he is doing in spreading false charges against us. And not content with that, he refuses to receive the brothers. He even tries to stop those who want to accept them and throws them out of the church.

Verse ConceptsInhospitalityWelcoming BelieversNot Welcoming PeopleExcommunicationBeing Contentaccusationsattentionwelcome

Bible Theasaurus

Broadcast (1 instance)
Circulate (3 instances)
Disperse (14 instances)
Disseminate (1 instance)
Distribute (34 instances)
Overspread (1 instance)
Propagate (1 instance)

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