Strong's #2946: taphach (pronounced taw-fakh')

a primitive root; to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse a child (as promotive of growth); or perhaps a denom. from 2947, from dandling on the palms:--span, swaddle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ṭâphach

1) to extend, spread, trip, take quick little steps

1a) (Piel)

1a1) to spread out

1a2) to carry on the palms, dandle

1a3) to rear children

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 2 times:

 

Isaiah 48:13: "hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto"
Lamentations 2:22: "none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy"