פָּרַשׂ
pa.ra.s
to spread
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "pa.ra.s" (H6566) is a verb that means "to spread". It is a physical action that can be applied to various objects or substances, such as spreading oil, dust, or a net. This verb is used 67 times in the Bible, indicating its significance and frequency in the Hebrew language. The range of usage for "pa.ra.s" is broad, encompassing actions like spreading a cloth, scattering seeds, or spreading a rumor. This verb can also imply a sense of expansion or dispersion, as seen in the context of spreading a cloud or a shadow. The physical nature of the action is emphasized, suggesting a tangible or visible outcome. The significance of "pa.ra.s" lies in its ability to convey a sense of movement and expansion, often with a sense of purpose or intention. By analyzing the various occurrences of this verb in the Bible, we can gain insight into the physical and spiritual actions of the characters and the consequences of their actions.
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Occurrences in Scripture
67 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;
Job 11:13“If you set your heart aright, stretch out your hands toward him.
Job 36:30Behold, he spreads his light around him. He covers the bottom of the sea.
Job 39:26“Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
Psalms 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
Psalms 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
Psalms 105:39He spread a cloud for a covering, fire to give light in the night.
Psalms 140:5The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.
Psalms 143:6I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land.
Proverbs 13:16Every prudent man acts from knowledge, but a fool exposes folly.
Proverbs 29:5A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.
Isaiah 1:15When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 19:8The fishermen will lament, and all those who fish in the Nile will mourn, and those who spread nets on the waters will languish.
Isaiah 25:11He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
Isaiah 25:11He will spread out his hands in the middle of it, like one who swims spreads out hands to swim, but his pride will be humbled together with the craft of his hands.
Isaiah 33:23Your rigging is untied. They couldn’t strengthen the foot of their mast. They couldn’t spread the sail. Then the prey of a great plunder was divided. The lame took the prey.
Isaiah 37:14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
Isaiah 65:2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah 4:31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her who gives birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, saying, “Woe is me now! For my soul faints before the murderers.”
Jeremiah 48:40For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.
Jeremiah 49:22Behold, he will come up and fly as the eagle, and spread out his wings against Bozrah. The heart of the mighty men of Edom at that day will be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
Lamentations 1:10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
Lamentations 1:13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
Lamentations 1:17Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
Ezekiel 12:13I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.
Lamentations 4:4The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask bread, and no one breaks it for them.
Ezekiel 2:10He spread it before me. It was written within and without; and lamentations, mourning, and woe were written in it.
Ezekiel 16:8“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
Ezekiel 17:20I will spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon, and will enter into judgment with him there for his trespass that he has trespassed against me.
Ezekiel 17:21All his fugitives in all his bands will fall by the sword, and those who remain will be scattered toward every wind. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have spoken it.’
Ezekiel 19:8Then the nations attacked him on every side from the provinces. They spread their net over him. He was taken in their pit.
Ezekiel 32:3The Lord Yahweh says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they will bring you up in my net.
Hosea 5:1“Listen to this, you priests! Listen, house of Israel, and give ear, house of the king! For the judgment is against you; for you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread on Tabor.
Hosea 7:12When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.
Joel 2:2A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
Micah 3:3who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.
Zechariah 2:6Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.
Proverbs 31:20She opens her arms to the poor; yes, she extends her hands to the needy.
Exodus 9:29Moses said to him, “As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to Yahweh. The thunders shall cease, and there will not be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is Yahweh’s.
Exodus 9:33Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to Yahweh; and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
Exodus 25:20The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
Exodus 37:9The cherubim spread out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim were toward the mercy seat.
Exodus 40:19He spread the covering over the tent, and put the roof of the tabernacle above on it, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Numbers 4:6put a covering of sealskin on it, spread a blue cloth over it, and put in its poles.
Numbers 4:7“On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
Numbers 4:8They shall spread on them a scarlet cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
Numbers 4:11“On the golden altar they shall spread a blue cloth, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in its poles.
Numbers 4:13“They shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread a purple cloth on it.
Numbers 4:14They shall put on it all its vessels with which they minister about it, the fire pans, the meat hooks, the shovels, and the basins—all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread on it a covering of sealskin, and put in its poles.
Deuteronomy 22:17Behold, he has accused her of shameful things, saying, ‘I didn’t find in your daughter the tokens of virginity;’ and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.” They shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.