Bible Dictionary: Measure: A Span

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Exodus 28:16
Foursquare it shall be being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall be the breadth thereof.
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1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
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Isaiah 40:12
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Isaiah 48:13
My hand also has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: when I call to them, they stand up together.
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Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Ezekiel 43:13
And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar.
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Library

It Will not do to Apply this Conception, as Drawn Out Above, of ...
... time. But the supreme and blessed life has no time-extension accompanying
its course, and therefore no span nor measure. Created ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 26 it will not.htm

That "Through Whom" is Said Also in the Case of the Father, and " ...
... Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with
the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/chapter v that through whom.htm

The Foreword
... prayer revealed in the Holy Scriptures. For one to undertake such a task
would be like an attempt to measure eternity by a span. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/anderson/prayer availeth much/the foreword.htm

The True Doctrine is to be Sought in the Prophets.
... And again by Isaiah, "Who shall measure heaven with a span, and the whole earth
with his hand?" [934] Behold God's greatness, and be filled with amazement. ...
/.../clement/exhortation to the heathen/chapter viii the true doctrine is.htm

The Comforter
... Go measure heaven with thy span; go weigh the mountains in the scales; go take the
ocean's water, and tell each drop; go count the sand upon the sea's wide ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 1 1855/the comforter.htm

Do Your Best --Leave the Rest.
... "Which of you can by being anxious add a single span to the measure of his life?"
Jesus asks in that sixth of Matthew. But much more can be said. ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on service/do your bestleave the rest.htm

He Does Wrong in Assuming, to Account for the Existence of the ...
... of such a radius will be cut as the instrument possesses of length, and, to put
the matter the other way, the span of the instrument will measure and cut out a ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 20 he does wrong.htm

The Eternity and Unchangeableness of God.
... Thou canst not measure the circumference of the heaven, how then canst thou find
out him, "who metes out heaven with the span," "and stretcheth them out as a ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture viii the eternity and.htm

All Fulness in Christ
... Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with
the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/all fulness in christ.htm

John Chapter viii. 31-36
... not even the infant whose life is but a day's span upon the earth." [761] But ... But
crime is grievous sin, deserving in the highest measure to be denounced and ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xli john chapter viii.htm

Subtopics

Measure

Measure: A Bath, About Eight Gallons and a Half

Measure: A Bushel, About a Peck

Measure: A Cab, or Kab, About Two Quarts

Measure: A Cor, Equal to One Homer or Ten Ephahs, Equal to About Eleven and One-Ninth Bushels

Measure: A Fathom

Measure: A Finger

Measure: A Firkin, Nearly Nine Gallons

Measure: A Furlong

Measure: A Half-Homer, About Five and a Half Bushels

Measure: A Handbreadth