Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Handbreadth » A measure (about four inches)
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits did compass it; and its thickness was four fingers: it was hollow.
It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Life » Brief » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
natural Life » Is compared to » A hand-breadth
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Measure » A hand-breadth
These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and its border around its edge a span; and this shall be the base of the altar.
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.
Behold, a wall on the outside of the house all around, and in the man's hand a measuring reed six cubits long, of a cubit and a handbreadth each: so he measured the thickness of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed.
It was a handbreadth thick; and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it received and held three thousand baths.
You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
The hooks, a handbreadth long, were fastened within all around: and on the tables was the flesh of the offering.
He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
Measures » Of length » Handbreadth
You shall make a rim of a handbreadth around it. You shall make a golden molding on its rim around it.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
The Providence of God » Is exercised in » Determining the period of human life
He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Time » Brevity of » Only a handbreadth in extent
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
Vanity » Man at his best estate is
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.