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Words
πλατύνω G4115
- Home gloss
- broaden
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- enlarge
- Note
- Make broad (Matt 23:5; 2 Cor 6:11, 13). One root with πλάτος "breadth." The Hebrew's pun on Japheth's name (יַפְתְּ … יֶפֶת) is not in the Greek
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (3)
- 9:27 May God broaden for Japheth,and let him dwell in the houses of Shem;and let Canaan come to be their servant."
- 26:22 Now, having set out from there, he dug a different well, and they did not fight over it; and he named its name Broad Room, saying, "Because now the Lord has broadened for us, and has grown us on the land."
- 28:14 And your seed shall be like the sand of the sea, and it shall be broadened to the sea and to the southwest and to the north and to the east; and all the tribes of the land shall be blessed in you, and in your seed.