שָׁטַח shâṭach — to expand
Translated in the KJV as all abroad, enlarge, spread, stretch out.
a primitive root; to expand.
shâṭach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2Infinitive absolute 1Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 1
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›