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zéreth [Hebrew, זָ֫רֶת ]

An ancient Hebrew unit of length, = 3 tophach (some say 2), about 22.2 centimeters (8.75 inches). Also romanized as zeres.

In the Bible in English, it has been translated as “span.”

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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.

1 Samuel 17:4 (King James)

And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an handbreadth; 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.

Ezekiel 43:13 (King James)

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 the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

Isaiah 40:12 (King James)