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title: טַפְחָה — handbreadths · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טַפְחָה (lemma:טַפְחָה), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: handbreadths. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טַפְחָה

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«טַפְחָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **handbreadths** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:טַפְחָה

### Glosses

handbreadths (1); stone (1)

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Why these entries: BDB: none; OSHB: none

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טַפְחָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/lemma_3a_5d8_5b7_5e4_5b0_5d7_5b8_5d4/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 39:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.39.6/)

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הִנֵּ֤ה טְפָח֨וֹת ׀ נָ֘תַ֤תָּה יָמַ֗י וְחֶלְדִּ֣י כְאַ֣יִן נֶגְדֶּ֑ךָ אַ֥ךְ כָּֽל־הֶ֥בֶל כָּל־אָ֝דָ֗ם נִצָּ֥ב סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* here! handbreadths you.have.made days my and lifespan my \[is\].like nothing before you \[is\].only all vanity all humankind \[which\].stands Selah

*JPS 1917:* Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; and mine age is as nothing before Thee; surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity.

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[1 Kings 7:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.7.9/)

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כָּל־אֵ֜לֶּה אֲבָנִ֤ים יְקָרֹת֙ כְּמִדֹּ֣ת גָּזִ֔ית מְגֹרָר֥וֹת בַּמְּגֵרָ֖ה מִבַּ֣יִת וּמִח֑וּץ וּמִמַּסָּד֙ עַד־הַטְּפָח֔וֹת וּמִח֖וּץ עַד־הֶחָצֵ֥ר הַגְּדוֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* all these \[were\].stones costly according to.measurements of.hewn.\[stone\] sawn with (the) saw from inside and from outside and from.\[the\] foundation to the.coping stone and from.\[the\] outside to the court (the) great

*JPS 1917:* All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.

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