Breadth
פְּתָיStrong’s H6613petay (pe-tay)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Petay is the Aramaic word usually translated “width its”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Width, breadth
How it's translated
- width its 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Aramaic dictionary
פְּתָי petay · breadth
width, breadth
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “breadth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BREADTH, noun
bredth. The measure or extent of any plain surface from side to side; a geometrical dimension, which, multiplied into the length, constitutes a surface; as, the length of a table is five feet, and the breadth three; 5x3=15 feet, the whole surface.
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.