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# טֹפַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2948

**span** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

span [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2948/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טֹ֫פַח: n.m. span, hand-breadth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2948/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 40:43 span, hand-breadth—always abs. טֹפַח Ex 25:25; 37:12 (both P), width of border of table in tabernacle; Ez 40:5; 43:13 addit. to common cubit; Ez 40:43 width of border (ledge) of four tables in new temple (Sm Co).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a hand breadth (4); of a hand breadth (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 25:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.25.25/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֨יתָ לּ֥וֹ מִסְגֶּ֛רֶת טֹ֖פַח סָבִ֑יב וְעָשִׂ֧יתָ זֵר־זָהָ֛ב לְמִסְגַּרְתּ֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.make for it a.rim a.hand.breadth all.around and you.will.make a.molding of.gold for rim its all.around

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

[Exodus 37:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.37.12/#tree)

וַיַּ֨עַשׂ ל֥וֹ מִסְגֶּ֛רֶת טֹ֖פַח סָבִ֑יב וַיַּ֧עַשׂ זֵר־זָהָ֛ב לְמִסְגַּרְתּ֖וֹ סָבִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* and he.made for it a.rim of.a.hand.breadth all.around and he.made a.molding of.gold for rim its all.around

*JPS 1917:* And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2948.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2948/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).