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coping, hand-breadth

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

The top and projecting layer of a wall (1 Kings 7:9⁹All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. (1 Kings 7:9)).

Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:

Number:

2947 (find all occurrences in KJV Bible)

Transliteration:

tephach

Phonic:

tay’-fakh

Meaning:

from 2946; a spread of the hand, i.e. a palm- breadth (not "span" of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)

KJV Usage:

coping, hand-breadth