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- noun Plural form of
handbreadth .
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Examples
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The proportions of twenty-four inches tall by twelve inches wide approximated the “six handbreadths” dimensions that were noted in ancient Midrashic descriptions of the tablets.
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Let the fat be ten handbreadths deep, and four broad.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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"A piece of ground containing four cabes of seed (saith the Gloss), is thirty-three cubits and two handbreadths broad, and fifty long."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Eighteen handbreadths was the height of the golden candlestick.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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And so, in like manner, Moses and Elijah halted ten handbreadths from heaven.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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It contained 4 _Palmi_ or handbreadths, each of which was therefore 3 inches long -- and it contained 16 _Digiti_, or finger breadths, each of which was therefore three-quarters of an inch long -- and it contained 12 _Unciæ_, or inches: any number of which was used to signify the same number of ounces.
Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) Charles K. Dillaway
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But no two handbreadths yielded/yet those warriors twain
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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[5] Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths;
XXXIX. Book I 1909
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Rabbi Maier “forbade it till he sink it three handbreadths, or till he raise it three.”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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But the Sages “forbid it, till he sink the heaps three handbreadths, or till he raise them three above the earth.”
Hebrew Literature Epiphanius Wilson 1880
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