Limitless Word
זֶרֶתzereth/zeh'-reth/
HebrewH22397 occurrences (KJV)

the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span

KJV renders it: span.

Where it appears(showing the first 5 of 7)

  • Exod 28:16It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its width.
  • Exod 39:9It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.
  • 1 Sam 17:4A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
  • Isa 40:12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
  • Ezek 43:13These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the width a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.