חֹפֶןchôphen
hollow of hand, only dual חָפְנַיִם (Ecclesiastes 4:6; Ezekiel 10:7; Ezekiel 10:2; Leviticus 16:2; Proverbs 30:4)
Pronunciation: kho'-fen · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2651
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 9:8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of soot from a brick kiln, and have Moses toss it into the air while Pharaoh watches.
- Leviticus 16:12 he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the Lord. Then he will take two handfuls of fragrant powdered incense and will carry the burner and the incense behind the inner curtain.
- Proverbs 30:4 Who but God goes up to heaven and comes back down? Who holds the wind in his fists? Who wraps up the oceans in his cloak? Who has created the whole wide world? What is his name—and his son’s name? Tell me if you know!
- Ecclesiastes 4:6 And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.”
- Ezekiel 10:2 Then the Lord spoke to the man in linen clothing and said, “Go between the whirling wheels beneath the cherubim, and take a handful of burning coals and scatter them over the city.” He did this as I watched.
- Ezekiel 10:7 Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some live coals from the fire burning among them. He put the coals into the hands of the man in linen clothing, and the man took them and went out.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).