- and Rome and in
medieval England,
where it was also
known as the hand,
handbreadth, or handsbreadth. The
length of the hand—originally the
Roman "greater...
- 40:43, is
usually taken to be palm or
handbreadth, and in
modern translations may be
rendered as "
handbreadth" or "three inches". The hand is a traditional...
- case, the
requirement is to make use of a
standard 6
handbreadths to each cubit, and
which handbreadth was not to be
confused with an
outstretched palm,...
-
although it is less than one
handbreadth when
measured in a
straight line or in diameter, its cir****ference
measures one
handbreadth), particularly, whenever...
- loom,
rather than embroidered, and each
curtain had the
thickness of a
handbreadth (ca. 9 cm.; 3½").
Josephus records that
Pompey profaned the
Temple by...
- palm [
handbreadth] (tefach) = 4
digit (etzba'ot) 1 span (zeret) = 3
palms (tefahim) 1 ell [cubit] (amah) = 2
spans (zeret), or 6
palms [
handbreadths] 1 mil...
-
remains kosher as long as the twin
middle leaves are not
split more than a
handbreadth,
approximating 3-4 inches. This rule
applies on the
first day of Sukkot...
- true
value of π.
Taking a
cubit to be
about 18
inches (46 cm) and a
handbreadth to be
about 4
inches (10 cm), the
ratio of the
described dimensions of...
- done
while standing and is
required to
extend in
length to a
tefach (
handbreadth), or what is
equivalent to
about 9
centimetres (3.5 in). Upon tearing...
-
Moses on the mountain.
Rabbinic sources teach that the
menorah stood 18
handbreadths/palms (three
common cubits) high, or
approximately 1.62
metres (5.3 ft)...
