H2947: טֵפַח
ṭêphach · pronounced tay'-fakh · “handbreadth”
Definition
a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)
KJV translates it as: coping, hand-breadth.
Word origin: from H2946 (טָפַח);
Extended definition
1a) a unit of measurement, measurement of length
2) coping (an architectural term)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H2947 is translated
- was a hand breadth ×2
- coping stone ×1
- handbreadths ×1
Bible verses with H2947 (ṭêphach)
Ṭêphach appears in 4 verses.
- 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.
- 1 Kings 7:26
And 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 4:5
And 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 39:5
Behold, 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.