Digit
אֶצְבַּעStrong’s H0677etsba (ets-ba)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Etsba is the Aramaic word usually translated “toes the”, “toes of” and “fingers”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.”
Meaning
- Finger, toe
How it's translated
- and toes the 1
- and toes of 1
- fingers 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:42In contextAnd as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
- Daniel 5:5In contextIn the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Aramaic dictionary
אֶצְבַּע etsba · digit
finger, toe Aramaic of ets.ba (אֶצְבַּע "finger" H0676) Aramaic of ets.ba (אֶצְבַּע "finger" H0676)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “digit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIGIT, noun
[Latin, a finger, that is, a shoot; Gr.]
- The measure of a fingers breadth, or three fourths of an inch.
- The twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of six digits is one which hides one half of the disk.
- In arithmetic, any integer under 10; so called from counting on the fingers.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.