Strong's #2947: tephach (pronounced tay'-fakh)

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

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ṭêphach

1) span, width of the hand, hand breadth

1a) a unit of measurement, measurement of length

2) coping (an architectural term)

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H2946

Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

 

1 Kings 7:26: " And it was a handbreadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies:"
2 Chronicles 4:5: " of it was a handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies;"
Psalms 39:5: "thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily"