Bible Dictionary: Stretches

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Strong's Hebrew

7971. shalach -- to send
... away (3), set (12), set your free (1), set free (1), shot (1), spread (2), spreads
(3), stretch (13), stretch forth (3), stretched (11), stretches (2), surely ...
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6566. paras -- to spread out, spread
... 1), displays (1), extended (2), extends (1), scattered (2), spread (47), spreading
(3), spreads (2), stretch (1), stretched (2), stretches (1), stretching (2). ...
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8388a. taar -- probably to incline
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition probably to incline NASB Word Usage curved
(3), extended (2), stretches (1). 8388, 8388a. taar. 8388b . Strong's Numbers
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5186. natah -- to stretch out, spread out, extend, incline, bend
... pervert (4), perverted (1), pitch (1), pitched (11), push aside (1), spread (3),
stretch (28), stretched (32), stretched-out (1), stretches (5), stretching (2 ...
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Library

The Sovereignty of God in Creation
... In the great expanse of eternity which stretches behind Genesis 1:1, the universe
was unborn and creation existed only in the mind of the great Creator. ...
/.../pink/the sovereignty of god/chapter two the sovereignty of.htm

Deep Indeed Will be the Thought Necessary to Understand the ...
... who have received their life from the will of the flesh and from blood; that, when
human nature has been based by passionate inclinations, it stretches out its ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/chapter ii deep indeed will.htm

Was, Is, is to Come
... Luke's biography of Jesus stretches from the cradle in Bethlehem to the Ascension
from Olivet. He narrates the Ascension twice, because it has two aspects. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/was is is to come.htm

Man's Greatness and God's Greatness.
... eyes on that which is to come. Time stretches back immeasurably, but it also
stretches on and on for ever. Now it is by such a conception ...
/.../robertson/sermons preached at brighton/xviii mans greatness and gods.htm

A New Years Message
... text begins. The Prophet has been asking for a little more light to shine
on the dark unknown that stretches before him. And his ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/a new years message.htm

Constant, Instant, Expectant
... Now he bends and twists, and anon he strains and stretches: now he uses one foot
and then another; he tries his arm and stretches: now he uses one foot and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 25 1879/constant instant expectant.htm

The Paradox of Love's Measure
... time; so as that you and I, looking back over all the centuries, and asking ourselves
what is the length of the love of Christ, can say, 'It stretches over all ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the paradox of loves measure.htm

1 John ii. 27-iii. 8
... wouldest put in, and seest that the bag is narrow; by stretching thou makest it
capable of holding more: so God, by deferring our hope, stretches our desire ...
/.../ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians/homily iv 1 john ii.htm

The Valley of Achor
... The narrow gorge stretches before us, with its dark overhanging cliffs that almost
shut out the sky; the path is rough and set with sharp pebbles; it is narrow ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture a/the valley of achor.htm

The Hiding-Place
... hearts, in order to come to the conclusion that the world is full of strange and
terrible sadness, that every life has dark tracts and long stretches of sombre ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the hiding-place.htm

Thesaurus

Stretches (14 Occurrences)
...Stretches (14 Occurrences). Joshua 19:13 From there it passed along eastward to
Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah. ...
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Stretcher (3 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) One who, or that which, stretches. 2.
(n.) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in ...
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Stretch (73 Occurrences)
... 7. (vi) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread;
to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake ...
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Spreads (31 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants
are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and ...
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Goshen (16 Occurrences)
... The western half, immediately East of the Bubastic branch of the Nile, stretches
from Zoan to Bubastis (at both of which cities records of the Hyksos ruler ...
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Esdraelon
... of the Hebrew "Jezreel," the name of the great plain (called by the natives Merj
Ibn Amer; ie, "the meadow of the son of Amer") which stretches across Central ...
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Syria (73 Occurrences)
... Beginning in the neighborhood of Riblah, the chain of anti-Lebanon extends southward
to Hermon (9, 200 ft.), and thence stretches out into the plateau of the ...
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Curtain (60 Occurrences)
... Psalms 104:2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the
heavens like a curtain. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS). ...
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Plain (113 Occurrences)
... valley from Mount Hermon to the eastern branch of the Red Sea, a distance of about
200 miles, as well as to that portion of the valley which stretches from the ...
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Kazin (1 Occurrence)
... Kazin (1 Occurrence). Joshua 19:13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher,
to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah. ...
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Bible Concordance

Stretches (14 Occurrences)

Joshua 19:13 From there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
(WEB NAS)

Job 9:8 He alone stretches out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Job 26:7 He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Job 39:26 "Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
(WEB)

Psalms 104:2 He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS NIV)

Proverbs 31:19 She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
(See NAS)

Proverbs 31:20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
(See NAS)

Isaiah 31:3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Isaiah 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold a land stretching afar.
(See RSV NIV)

Isaiah 40:22 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 44:24 Thus says Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb: "I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;
(WEB)

Lamentations 1:17 Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Ezekiel 30:25 And I have strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And the arms of Pharaoh do fall down, And they have known that I 'am' Jehovah, In My giving My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, And he hath stretched it out toward the land of Egypt.
(See NAS)

Zechariah 12:1 An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
(WEB NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Stretches

Related Terms

Stretcher (3 Occurrences)

Stretch (73 Occurrences)

Spreads (31 Occurrences)

Goshen (16 Occurrences)

Esdraelon

Syria (73 Occurrences)

Curtain (60 Occurrences)

Plain (113 Occurrences)

Kazin (1 Occurrence)