Strong's #6566: paras (pronounced paw-ras')
a primitive root; to break apart, disperse, etc.:--break, chop in pieces, lay open, scatter, spread (abroad, forth, selves, out), stretch (forth, out).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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pâraś
1) to spread, spread out, stretch, break in pieces
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to spread out, display
1a2) to spread over
1b) (Niphal) to be scattered, be spread out
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to spread out
1c1) to scatter
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 68 times:
Jeremiah 49:22: "he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that"
Lamentations 1:10: "The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen"
Lamentations 1:13: "hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned"
Lamentations 1:17: "Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob,"
Lamentations 4:4: "ask bread, and no man breaketh"
Ezekiel 2:10: " And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein"
Ezekiel 12:13: "My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon"
Ezekiel 16:8: "thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness:"
Ezekiel 17:20: " And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead"
Ezekiel 17:21: "shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that"
Ezekiel 19:8: "against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken"
Ezekiel 32:3: "saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company"
Ezekiel 34:12: "that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep,"
Hosea 5:1: "a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor."
Hosea 7:12: "When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven;"
Joel 2:2: "of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people"
Micah 3:3: "from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh"
Zechariah 2:6: "of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds"
