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handbreadth
ˈhandbreadth Also 6 handbreth, -breath, 8– hand's breadth, handsbreadth. A Unit of lineal measure in many countries and periods, founded on the width of the adult human hand, a palm; formerly estimated as one-fourth of a foot, but now as four inches.1535 Coverdale 1 Kings vii. 26 The thicknesse was ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Lulav
tiyomet (, "twin"), should ideally not be split at all; however, the lulav remains kosher as long as the twin middle leaves are not split more than a handbreadth wikipedia.org
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handsbreadth
handsbreadth see handbreadth. Oxford English Dictionary
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Hand (unit)
History Ancient Egypt The hand, sometimes also called a handbreadth or handsbreadth, is an anthropic unit, originally based on the breadth of a male , and in modern translations may be rendered as "handbreadth" or "three inches". wikipedia.org
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Ezekiel 43
Verse 13 These are the measurements of the altar in cubits (the cubit is one cubit and a handbreadth): the base one cubit high and one cubit wide, with This is the height of the altar: "Cubit": here is a "long cubit", about , a sum of "short cubit" and "a handbreadth" as defined in Ezekiel 40:5. wikipedia.org
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shaftment
▪ I. ˈshaftment1 Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 sceaftmund, 4 schaftmonde, 5 schafftmon, schaftemonde, schaft-mun, shaftmone, -mon(d, -mount, chaftmonde, 5–6 shafmond, 6 shaft-man, shaftemente, (shafts-man Florio), 7 shaftmont, -men, -met, shafman, (corruptly shafnet), 7, 9 shafment, 9 shaffment, 6–9 shaf... Oxford English Dictionary
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Vayelech
Rabbi Meir subtracted 1 handbreadth for the two sides of the Ark (½ handbreadth for each side), leaving 2 handbreadths for the Torah scroll. , leaving 1 handbreadth. wikipedia.org
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Ezekiel 40
In the man's hand was a measuring rod six cubits long, each being a cubit and a handbreadth; and he measured the width of the wall structure, one rod; "A cubit and a handbreadth": a cubit is about "44.4 cm or 17.5 in."; a handbreadth (or "four fingers thick") is about "7.4 cm or 2.9 in." wikipedia.org
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Palm (unit)
The width of the palm was a traditional unit in Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece, and Rome and in medieval England, where it was also known as the hand, handbreadth England The English palm, handbreadth, or handsbreadth is three inches (7.62cm) or, equivalently, four digits. wikipedia.org
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Cubit
In this case, the requirement is to make use of a standard 6 handbreadths to each cubit, and which handbreadth was not to be confused with an outstretched This puts the handbreadth at roughly , and 6 handbreadths (1 cubit) at . wikipedia.org
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Psalm 127:2 In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread ...
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he gives his beloved sleep. vain. Psalm 39:5,6 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah…
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1 Kings 7
Charles Ryrie gives another explanation based on 1 Kings 7:26 (cf. 2 Chronicles 4:5) that the molten sea has a brim of a handbreadth (about 4 inches or 10 cm) wide, so when the inside diameter, subtracting 10 cubits (about 180 inches or 4.6 meter; from outer "brim to brim") with 2 times 4 inches (two handbreadth wikipedia.org
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2 Chronicles 4
, so when the inside diameter, subtracting 10 cubits (about 180 inches or 4.6 meter; from outer "brim to brim") with 2 times 4 inches (two handbreadth) "Handbreadth": a measurement of length of about 3 inches or 7.5 centimeters. wikipedia.org
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Paradiso (Dante)
Now who are you, who wish to sit on the bench and judge from a thousand miles away, with sight as short as handbreadth? wikipedia.org
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Rabbi Nehemiah
the diameter of the bowl was measured from the outside brim, while the circumference was measured along the inner brim, which with a brim that is one handbreadth wikipedia.org
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