Topic
Handbreadth
10 passages cited, from 3 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Exodus 25:25Easton · ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
- Psalms 39:5Easton · ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
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.
- Exodus 37:12Easton · ISBE
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
- 1 Kings 7:26ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
- 2 Chronicles 4:5ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.
- Ezekiel 40:5ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man’s hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
- Ezekiel 40:43ISBE · Nave A measure (about four inches)
And within were hooks, an hand broad, fastened round about: and upon the tables was the flesh of the offering.
- Isaiah 48:13Nave A measure (about four inches)
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.
- Jeremiah 52:21Nave A measure (about four inches)
And concerning the pillars, the height of one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a fillet of twelve cubits did compass it; and the thickness thereof was four fingers: it was hollow.
- Ezekiel 43:13ISBE
¶ And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the…
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 3 references
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.