σπιθαμή
span (hand-width)
Where this word appears
Every passage where σπιθαμή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 28:16 σπιθαμή You shall make it square: it shall be double; of a span the length of it, and of a span the breadth.
- Exodus 28:16 σπιθαμή You shall make it square: it shall be double; of a span the length of it, and of a span the breadth.
- Exodus 36:16 σπιθαμή They made the oracle square and double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.
- Exodus 36:16 σπιθαμή They made the oracle square and double, the length of a span, and the breadth of a span, —double.
- Judges 3:16 σπιθαμή And Aod made himself a dagger of two edges, of a span long, and he girded it under his cloak upon his right thigh.
- 1 Samuel 17:4 σπιθαμή And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height was four cubits and a span.
- Isaiah 40:12 σπιθαμή Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?
- Ezekiel 43:13 σπιθαμή And these are the measures of the altar by the cubit of a cubit and a span, the cavity shall be a cubit deep, and a cubit shall be the breadth, and the border on the rim of it round about shall be a span: and this shall be the height of the altar
About this word
About this word
σπιθαμή (spithamḗ), “span (hand-width),” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 8 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →