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Definition of Handbreadths
1. handbreadth [n] - See also: handbreadth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handbreadths
Literary usage of Handbreadths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, with Historical Surveys by Charles F Horne (1917)
"It extended over two handbreadths and a half on either side. ... Rabbi Meier
said, " the table was in length twelve handbreadths, and in breadth six hand- ..."
2. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"65 Rabbi Judah said, " the cubit contained five handbreadths, thus there are ten
handbreadths." From thence the Sages said, "the table was in length ten ..."
3. An Old Testament commentary for English readers, by various writers, ed. by edited by Charles John Ellicott (1882)
"As the cakes were ten handbreadths long, and the table was only six ... As the
two piles of six cakes each measured together ten handbreadths in width, ..."
4. Ancient Egyptian Science: A Source Book by Marshall Clagett (1989)
"4] of 5 handbreadths section; but he has brought them in logs [Lin. 5] of 4
handbreadths section." You are to square these 5 handbreadths. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"And indeed the rabbis speak of a cubit applied to furnishings of the Temple which
was five handbreadths in length and of one applied to the structure which ..."
6. Hebrew Literature: Comprising Talmudic Treatises, Hebrew Melodies and the by Epiphanius Wilson (1901)
"But the Sages " forbid it, till he sink the heaps three handbreadths, ...
Rabbi Maier " forbade it till he sink it three handbreadths, or till he raise it ..."
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