Word

זֶרֶת

zereth · H2239 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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SpanMeasures of length in the Old Testament5 verses

Meanings

span

The distance between top of the thumb and the little finger of an outstretched hand, which is the equivalent of half a cubit

Examples
Exodus 28:16 “It shall be square and folded double, a span in length and a span in width.
Exodus 39:9 It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.
1 Samuel 17:4 Then a champion came forward from the army encampment of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֶחָדone 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

6 occurrences in 4 groups

רֹחַבbreadth 2
אֹרֶךְlength 2
גֹּבַהּheight 1
גְּבוּלborder, territory 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בin/on/with 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Near synonyms 1 word

טֵפַח ṭêphach · H2947 · handbreadth, width of a palm, coping: Both words denote small units of linear measurement, a span (about half a cubit) and a handbreadth (the width of a palm), and so refer to closely related measures.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Dimension002001001020: זֶרֶת denotes a span, a fixed unit of linear measure used for the priestly breastpiece's dimensions.

Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָרָה zârâh · H2219 · to scatter, to spread, to disperse · 39×זֶרֶתzereth · H2239מִזְרֶה mizreh · H4214 · winnowing fork · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2239. zereth זֶ֫רֶת noun feminine span (Late Hebrew id. (זַרְתָּא ᵑ7, Syriac ;…

H2239. zereth
זֶ֫רֶת noun feminine span (Late Hebrew id. (זַרְתָּא ᵑ7, Syriac ; apparently from Hebrew), etymology dubious; Thes and most derive from √ זרה, see Ol§ 146 b but also Sta§ 187 a; BaZMG 1887, 607 proposes √ זרה measure off, determine, compare p. 280) — span, as standard of measurement, בַּז ׳שָׁמַיִם תִּכֵּן Isa 40:12; elsewhere of actual size, a span, distance between ends of thumb and little finger of spread hand; = 1/2 cubit (see אַמָּה & references; compare Exo 25:10 with JosephAnt. iii. 6, 5), ׳ז Exo 28:16 (twice in verse); Exo 39:9 (twice in verse) (all P) Eze 43:13; זָ֑רֶת 1Sa 17:4 six cubits and a span. See HultschMetrol. 1882, 443 BenzArchäol. 179.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Dimension7 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0