Ṭôphach — H2948

Definition

masculine noun

a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)

1. span, hand breadth

Usually translated as

hand-breadth

Origin

from H2946 (the same as H2947)

• Same as Ṭâphach (H2946)
• Same as Ṭêphach (H2947)

Occurrences

Ṭôphach occurs 6 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), 1 Kings (1), Ezekiel (3)

• Exodus 25:25 — And thou shalt make unto it a border of (טֹ֖פַח) an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
• Exodus 37:12 — Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth (טֹ֖פַח) round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
• 1 Kings 7:9 — 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.
• Ezekiel 40:5 — And 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 (וָטֹ֔פַח) an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
• Ezekiel 40:43 — And within were hooks, an hand broad (טֹ֧פַח), fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
• Ezekiel 43:13 — And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and (וָטֹ֑פַח) 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.