טֹפַח
tofach · handbreadth
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2948 · appears 5 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
tofach (טֹפַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “handbreadth”.
The width of four fingers, about 7.5 centimeters.
How to say it
to·fach
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
In today's measures
about 3 in (7.5 cm) approximate
The width of the hand, four fingers; a sixth of a cubit.
Its senses in the Bible
- The width of four fingers.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Exodus 25:25
You shall make for it a rim a handbreadth wide all around, and you shall make a molding of gold for its rim all around.
- Exodus 37:12
And he made for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and made a molding of gold for its rim all around.
- Ezekiel 40:5
And look, a wall outside the house all around, and in the hand of the man the measuring reed of six cubits, each a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the structure, one reed, and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:43
And the hooks, one handbreadth long, were fixed in the house all around; and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
- Ezekiel 43:13
And these are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit being a cubit and a handbreadth): the base, a cubit, and a cubit wide, and its border on its rim all around, one span; and this is the elevation of the altar.