Thematic Bible: Handbreadth
Thematic Bible
Handbreadth » A measure (about four inches)
It was as thick as a man's open hand, and was curved like the edge of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it would take two thousand baths.
And there was a wall on the outside of the house all round, and in the man's hand there was a measuring rod six cubits long by a cubit and a hand's measure: so he took the measure of the building from side to side, one rod; and from base to top, one rod.
And as for the pillars, one pillar was eighteen cubits high, and twelve cubits measured all round, and it was as thick as a man's hand: it was hollow.
It was as thick as a man's open hand, and the edge of it was curved like the edge of a cup, like a lily flower; it would take three thousand baths.
And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.
And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
And make a frame all round it, as wide as a man's hand, with a gold edge to the frame.
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Related Topics
- Breadth
- Chaos
- Corpses Of Animals
- Dimensions Of Other Things
- Dimensions Of Pillars
- Dimensions Of Walls
- Earth's Foundation
- Earth, Creation Of
- Edge Of Other Things
- Finger Of God
- Fingers
- Foundations
- God Creating With His Finger
- Gold Items For The Tabernacl
- Hand Of God
- Hollow
- Hollowness
- Length
- Man A Mere Breath
- Perspective
- Physical Life
- Power Of God, Expressed
- Power, Of God
- Psalm Interjections
- Right Hand Of God
- Vanity
- Weights And Measures, Linear