Hebrew noun (feminine) · H2239
זֶרֶת
zerethzeh'-reth
span
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2239is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2239
the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span
The King James renders it: span.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zereth is rendered "span". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 28:16It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
Exodus 28:16זֶ֥רֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a span3
- and a span3
- with the span1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זֶרֶם | zerem | storm | Uses9 |
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְזֶ֥רֶת2
- בַּזֶּ֣רֶת1
- וָזָֽרֶת׃1
- זֶ֥רֶת1
- זֶ֧רֶת1
- זֶ֣רֶת1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular3HC/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular1HRd/Ncfsa
Exodus
four uses
It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- זֶ֥רֶתzeretnoun · feminine singulartagged: a span
- וְזֶ֥רֶתvezeretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a span
It was square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- זֶ֧רֶתzeretnoun · feminine singulartagged: a span
- וְזֶ֥רֶתvezeretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a span
1 Samuel
one use
Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
- וָזָֽרֶת׃vazaretconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a span
Isaiah
one use
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on a scale and the hills with a balance?
- בַּזֶּ֣רֶתbazeretpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: with the span
Ezekiel
one use
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- זֶ֣רֶתzeretnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a span
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.