Brown-Driver-Briggs   [מָתַח]  verb spread out (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic  , מְתַח; Arabic   be long,   long (probably load-word); compare perhaps Assyrian matâ—u, direct the eyes toward); — only Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix וַיִּמְתָּחֵם Isaiah 40:22 and he (׳י) hath spread them (the heavens) out as a tent to dwell in.  Forms and Transliterations וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם וימתחם vaiyimtaChem way·yim·tā·ḥêm wayyimtāḥêmLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts | 
, מְתַח; Arabic 
 be long, 
 long (probably load-word); compare perhaps Assyrian matâ—u, direct the eyes toward); — only 


