Strong H5628סָרַח

to overrun

Transliteration: sârach
Pronunciation: saw-rakh'
Morphology: Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to extend (even to excess): - {exceeding} {hand} {spread} stretch {self} banish.

Detailed definition

1) to go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go free, be unrestrained, sprawl
1a1a) overrunning, spreading (participle)
1a2) to overhang
1b) (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone

In the Bible

Strong H5628 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

hang2
stretch2
exceed1
spreading1
vanish1

First verses

Exodus 26:12
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
Exodus 26:13
And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
Jeremiah 49:7
Concerning Edom, thus saith the Lord of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
Ezekiel 17:6
And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
Ezekiel 23:15
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Amos 6:4
That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
Amos 6:7
Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.