Exodus 28:16
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
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Span
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Ezekiel 43:13
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 higher place of the altar.
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זֶרֶת
zereth · zeh'-reth
7 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span
Strong's KJV usage: span.
Strong's first: Exodus 28:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:13
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Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
H2239
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
H2239
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
H2239
It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
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span
SPAN, noun [This word is formed on the root of bend, Latin pando. The primary sense is to strain, stretch, extend, hence to join a team.]
1. The space from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; the eighth of a fathom.
2. A short space of time. Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.
3. A span of horses, consists of two of nearly the same color, and otherwise nearly alike, which are usually harness side by side. The word signifies properly the same as yoke, when applied to horned cattle, from buckling or fastening together. But in America, span always implies resemblance in color at least; it being an object of ambition with gentlemen and with teamters to unite two horses abreast that are alike.
4. In seamen's language, a small line or cord, the middle of which is attached to a stay.
SPAN, verb transitive
1. To measure by the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder.
2. To measure. This soul doth span the world.
SPAN, verb intransitive To agree in color, or in color and size; as, the horses span well. [New England.]
SPAN, pert. of spin. We now use spun.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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