H2239

זרת

זרת

zarath

Feminine noun · From זרה (H2219)

From H2219; the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span:—span.

Outline

span

a unit of measure, approx half-cubit, or the distance from the thumb to the little finger on an outstretched hand

Usages

Exodus 28:16

Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.

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Exodus 39:9

It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

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1 Samuel 17:4

¶ And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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Isaiah 40:12

¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

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Ezekiel 43:13

¶ And 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.

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