Lexicon :: Strong's H6566 - pāraś

“As an eagle that protects its nest,

That flutters over its young,

He spread out His wings and took them,

He carried them on His pinions.

Then Solomon stood [in the courtyard] before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

When Solomon finished offering this entire prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the LORD’S altar, where he had knelt down with his hands stretched toward heaven.

Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the house (temple) of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

At the evening offering I arose from my [time of] humiliation and penitence and having torn my clothing and my robe, I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the LORD my God,

“If you direct your heart [on the right path]

And stretch out your hands to Him,

“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],

And He covers the depths of the sea.

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,

Stretching his wings toward the south [as winter approaches]?

If we had forgotten the name of our God

Or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

When the Almighty scattered [the Canaanite] kings in the land of Canaan,

It was snowing on [fn]Zalmon.

The LORD spread a cloud as a covering [by day],

And a fire to illumine the night.

The proud have hidden a trap for me, and cords;

They have spread a net by the wayside;

They have set traps for me. Selah.

I reach out my hands to You;

My throat thirsts for You, as a parched land [thirsts for water]. Selah.

Every prudent and self-disciplined man acts with knowledge,

But a [closed-minded] fool [who refuses to learn] displays his foolishness [for all to see].

A man who flatters his neighbor [with smooth words intending to do harm]

Is spreading a net for his own feet.

She opens and extends her hand to the poor,

And she reaches out her filled hands to the needy.

“So when you spread out your hands [in prayer, pleading for My help],

I will hide My eyes from you;

Yes, even though you offer many prayers,

I will not be listening.

Your hands are full of blood!

The fishermen will lament (cry out in grief),

And all those who cast a hook into the Nile will mourn,

And those who spread nets upon the waters will languish.

And Moab will spread out his hands in the middle of the filth

As a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim,

But the Lord will humiliate his pride in spite of the [skillful] movements of his hands.

Your ship’s ropes (tackle) hang loose;

They cannot hold the base of their mast firmly,

Nor spread out the sail.

Then an abundance of spoil and plunder will be divided;

Even the lame will take the plunder.

Then Hezekiah took the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.

“I have spread out My hands all the day long to a rebellious and stubborn people,

Who walk in the way that is not good, [following] after their own thoughts and intentions,

For I heard a cry like a woman in labor,

The anguish as of one giving birth to her first child,

The cry of the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem), who gasps for breath,

Who stretches out her hands, saying,

“Woe is me [my judgment comes]! I faint [in fear] before the murderers.”

For thus says the LORD:

“Behold, one (Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon) will fly swiftly like an eagle

And spread out his wings against Moab.