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STRONGS NUMBER H2947
Transliteration: tephach
Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-fakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a span, handbreadth, coping
Meaning: a spread of the hand, a palm-breadth, a corbel
Word Summary
tephach: a span, handbreadth, coping
Original Word: טֵפַחTransliteration: tephach
Phonetic Spelling: (tay'-fakh)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a span, handbreadth, coping
Meaning: a spread of the hand, a palm-breadth, a corbel
Strong's Concordance
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.
see HEBREW taphach
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2947. tephach
טֶ֫פַח noun [masculine]
1 a span, hand-breadth;
2 coping (?); —
1 a span, hand-breadth, טֶ֫פַח 1 Kings 7:26 2 Chronicles 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, עַדהַֿטְּפָחוֺת וּמִמַּסַּד 1 Kings 7:9.