Bible dictionaries
Spread
What Bible dictionaries say about “Spread”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Spread - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SPREAD, SPRED, v.t. pret. and pp. spread or spred. [G., to spread. The more correct orthography is spred.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Spreading - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
SPREADING, SPREDDING, ppr.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
spred, spred'-ing: Alone, or in phrases like "spread abroad," "spread forth," etc., "spread" represents very many Hebrew terms, principally paras; in the New Testament the act of spreading is stronnumi, where in Mt 21:8 b the King James Version has "strawed" (which see); compound in Lu 19:36. For "spread abroad" in Mr 1:28; 1Th 1:8 (exerchomai), the Revised Version (British and American) has "went out" and "gone forth"; conversely, the Revised Version (British and American) has "spread abroad" for the King James Version "break forth" (Isa 54:3,), and "published" (diaphero, Ac 13:49), and for "commonly reported" (diaphemizo, Mt 28:15).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915