- Original: טפח - Transliteration: Taphach - Phonetic: taw-fakh' - Definition: 1. to extend, spread, trip, take quick little steps a. (Piel) 1. to spread out 2. to carry on the palms, dandle 3. to rear children - Origin: a primitive root - TWOT entry: 821 - Part(s) of speech: Verb - Strong's: A primitive root; to flatten out or extend (as a tent); figuratively to nurse a child (as promotive of growth); or perhaps a denominative from H2947 from dandling on the palms: - span swaddle. Total KJV Occurrences: 2 • spanned, 1 Isaiah 48:13 • swaddled, 1 Lamentations 2:22