From taphach; a spread of the hand, i.e. A palm- breadth (not "span" of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm) -- coping, hand-breadth.
1) span, width of the hand, hand breadth 1a) a unit of measurement, measurement of length 2) coping (an architectural term) Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H2946 Same Word by TWOT Number: 818b
Brown-Driver-Briggs
טֶ֫פַחnoun [masculine]
1a span, hand-breadth;
2coping (?); —
1a span, hand-breadth, טֶ֫פַח1 Kings 7:26 2Chronicles 4:5 of thickness of the molten sea; plural טְפָחוֺתPsalm 39:6 (a few) hand-breadths are my days.
1 Kings 7:9 HEB:וּמִמַּסָּד֙ עַד־ הַטְּפָח֔וֹת וּמִח֖וּץ עַד־ NAS: even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside KJV: even from the foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside INT: the foundation against to the coping the outside against
1 Kings 7:26 HEB: וְעָבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָת֛וֹ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה NAS:It was a handbreadth thick, KJV:And it [was] an hand breadth thick, INT: thick A handbreadth brim was made
2 Chronicles 4:5 HEB: וְעָבְי֣וֹ טֶ֔פַח וּשְׂפָתוֹ֙ כְּמַעֲשֵׂ֣ה NAS:It was a handbreadth thick, KJV: And the thickness of it [was] an handbreadth, and the brim INT: and the thickness of it an handbreadth and the brim the work
Psalm 39:5 HEB: הִנֵּ֤ה טְפָח֨וֹת ׀ נָ֘תַ֤תָּה יָמַ֗י NAS: my days [as] handbreadths, And my lifetime KJV: my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age INT: Behold handbreadths have made my days
