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The Definition of the word Fathom

Fathom

(Old A.S. faethm, bosom," or the outstretched arms), a span of" "six feet (Acts 27:28). Gr. orguia (from orego, "I stretch"), the" distance between the extremities of both arms fully stretched out.


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The New Testament