Strong H2947טֶ֫פַח
handbreadth
- Transliteration
- ţêphach
- Pronunciation
- tay'-fakh
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H2946; a spread of the {hand} that {is} a palm breadth (not span of the fingers); architecturally a corbel (as a supporting palm): - {coping} hand-breadth.
Detailed definition
STEP sense: handbreadth
Exact lexical definition: a span
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: טֶ֫פַח n.[m.] 1. a span , hand-breadth ; 2. coping (?)
In the Bible
Strong H2947 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- handbreadth2
- breadth1
- coping1
First verses
- 1 Kings 7:9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
- 1 Kings 7:26And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.