'Span' in the Bible
It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its breadth.
It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its breadth a span, being double.
There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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.