Handbreadth
טֹ֫פַחStrong’s H2948tophach (to-phach)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tophach is the Hebrew word usually translated “hand breadth”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.”
Meaning
- Span, hand breadth
How it's translated
- a hand breadth 3
- and a hand breadth 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 3
- Exodus 2
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 37:12Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
- Ezekiel 40:5And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:43And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
- Ezekiel 43:13And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
Hebrew dictionary
טֹ֫פַח tophach · handbreadth
span, hand breadth
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.