Tophach טֹ֫פַח
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| טֹ֫פַח | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | tophach |
| Strong's number | H2948 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | handbreadth |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | Ezekiel (3) |
Tophach (Hebrew טֹ֫פַח, Strong's H2948) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “handbreadth”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
span, hand breadth
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | breadth (3), handbreadth (1), hand (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | handbreadth (3), handbreadth wide (2) |
Verses
Every verse with Tophach, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Exodus
- Exodus 25:25And 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.And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- 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.And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Ezekiel
- 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.And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- Ezekiel 40:43And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
- 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.These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).