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Topic

HANDBREADTH

A measure (about four inches) EXO 25:25; 1KI 7:26; 2CH 4:5; PSA 39:5; ISA 48:13; EZK 40:5,43; JER 52:21

Passages on this topic · 8

  • Exodus 25:25

    You shall make a rim of a hand width around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.

  • 1 Kings 7:26

    It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand baths.

  • 2 Chronicles 4:5

    It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held three thousand baths.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

  • Isaiah 48:13

    Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.

  • Jeremiah 52:21

    As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.

  • Ezekiel 40:5

    Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a hand width each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.

  • Ezekiel 40:43

    The hooks, a hand width long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the meat of the offering.

From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).