Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2948
טֹפַח
tophachto'-fakh
handbreadth
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭôphach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2948is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2948
{a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)}
The King James renders it: hand-breadth (broad).
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
tophach is rendered "handbreadth". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 25:25And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
Exodus 25:25טֹ֖פַח
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 hand breadth3
- and a hand breadth2
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.
The words it stands beside
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- טֹ֖פַח2
- וָטֹ֔פַח1
- וָטֹ֑פַח1
- טֹ֧פַח1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
Exodus
two uses
And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- טֹ֖פַחtofachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a hand breadth
And he made a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- טֹ֖פַחtofachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a hand breadth
Ezekiel
three uses
And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- וָטֹ֔פַחvatofachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a hand breadth
The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.
- טֹ֧פַחtofachnoun · masculine singulartagged: a hand breadth
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:
- וָטֹ֑פַחvatofachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a hand breadth
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.