טָפַח ṭâphach — to flatten out or extend (as a tent)
Translated in the KJV as span, swaddle.
a primitive root; or perhaps a denominative from H2947, from dandling on the palms; to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively, to nurse a child (as promotive of growth).
ṭâphach in each stem
Pi'el
Perfect (qatal) 2
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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 ›