Strong's Hebrew: 2947. טֶ֫פַח (tephach) -- a span, handbreadth, coping

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tephach: a span, handbreadth, coping

Original Word: טֶ֫פַח
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: tephach
Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-fakh)
Short Definition: handbreadth

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from taphach
Definition
a span, handbreadth, coping
NASB Translation
coping (1), handbreadth (2), handbreadths (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

טֶ֫פַח noun [masculine]

1 a span, hand-breadth;

2 coping (?); —

1 a span, hand-breadth, טֶ֫פַח 1 Kings 7:26 2Chronicles 4:5 of thickness of the molten sea; plural טְפָחוֺת Psalm 39:6 (a few) hand-breadths are my days.

2 architectural term, perh. coping, וּמִמַּסַּד עַדהַֿטְּפָחוֺת 1 Kings 7:9.

Strong's

coping, hand-breadth

From taphach; a spread of the hand, i.e. A palm- breadth (not "span" of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm) -- coping, hand-breadth.

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