# H2947 טֵפַח

טֵפַח (ṭêphach), Strong’s H2947: a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm) KJV: coping, hand-breadth.. Occurs 4 times.

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*ṭêphach* — a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)

KJV: coping, hand-breadth.

Derived from [טָפַח ṭâphach](https://besorah.bible/word/H2946) (to flatten out or extend)

Occurs 4 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- טֶ֫פַח n.[m.] 1. a span, hand-breadth; 2. coping (?)

## Where it occurs
- [1 Kings 7:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=9) — All these were of costly stones, even of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from…
- [1 Kings 7:26](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/7?v=26) — It was a hand width thick. Its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It held two thousand…
- [Psalms 39:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/39?v=6) — Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”…
- [2 Chronicles 4:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/4?v=5) — It was a handbreadth thick. Its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily. It received and held…