Handbreadth
טֶ֫פַחStrong’s H2947tephach (te-phach)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tephach is the Hebrew word usually translated “hand breadth”, “coping stone” and “handbreadths”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“All 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.”
Meaning
- Span, width of the hand, hand breadtha unit of measurement, measurement of length
- Coping (an architectural term)
How it's translated
- a hand breadth 2
- the coping stone 1
- handbreadths 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
טֶ֫פַח tephach · handbreadth
1) span, width of the hand, hand breadth 1a) a unit of measurement, measurement of length 2) coping (an architectural term)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “handbreadth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAND'BREADTH, noun
A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.