# H2239 זֶרֶת

זֶרֶת (zereth), Strong’s H2239: the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span KJV: span.. Occurs 7 times.

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*zereth* — the spread of the fingers, i.e. a span

KJV: span.

Derived from [זָרָה zârâh](https://besorah.bible/word/H2219) (to toss about)

Occurs 7 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זֶ֫רֶת n.f. span

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 28:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/28?v=16) — It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length, and a span its width.
- [Exodus 39:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/39?v=9) — It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.
- [1 Samuel 17:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/17?v=4) — A champion out of the camp of the Philistines named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span went out.
- [Isaiah 40:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/40?v=12) — Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of…
- [Ezekiel 43:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/43?v=13) — “These are the measurements of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a hand width): the bottom shall be a…