cubit-a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (. 5m). There are several cubits used in the OT, the cubit of a man or common cubit (De 3:11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Eze 40:5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment. Aramaic equivalent: am.mah (אַמָּה "cubit" H0521)
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am.mah · cubit · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Genesis 6:15 · אַמָּ֗ה · אַמָּה֙ · אַמָּ֖הand this is that which thou dost with it: three hundred cubits is the length of the ark, fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height;Genesis 6:16 · אַמָּה֙a window dost thou make for the ark, and unto a cubit thou dost restrain it from above; and the opening of the ark thou dost put in its side,—lower, second, and third stories dost thou make it.Genesis 7:20 · אַמָּה֙fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;Exodus 25:10 · אַמָּתַ֨יִם · וְאַמָּ֤ה · וְאַמָּ֥ה‘And they have made an ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;Exodus 25:17 · אַמָּתַ֤יִם · וְאַמָּ֥ה‘And thou hast made a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;Exodus 25:23 · אַמָּתַ֤יִם · וְאַמָּ֣ה · וְאַמָּ֥ה‘And thou hast made a table of shittim wood, two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,Exodus 26:2 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · בָּאַמָּ֔הthe length of the one curtain is eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit, one measure is to all the curtains;Exodus 26:8 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · בָּאַמָּ֔הthe length of the one curtain is thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure is to the eleven curtains;Exodus 26:13 · וְהָאַמָּ֨ה · וְהָאַמָּ֤הand the cubit on this side, and the cubit on that, in the superfluity in the length of the curtains of the tent, is spread out over the sides of the tabernacle, on this and on that, to cover it;Exodus 26:16 · אַמּ֖וֹת · וְאַמָּה֙ · הָֽאַמָּ֔הten cubits is the length of the board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the one board;Exodus 27:1 · אַמּ֨וֹת · אַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֖וֹת‘And thou hast made the altar of shittim wood, five cubits the length, and five cubits the breadth—the altar is square—and three cubits its height.Exodus 27:9 · בָֽאַמָּה֙And thou hast made the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward, hangings for the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit is the length for the one side,Exodus 27:12 · אַמָּ֑הAnd for the breadth of the court at the west side are hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.Exodus 27:13 · אַמָּֽה׃And for the breadth of the court at the east side, eastward, are fifty cubits.Exodus 27:14 · אַמָּ֛הAnd the hangings at the side are fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three.Exodus 27:16 · אַמָּ֗ה‘And for the gate of the court a covering of twenty cubits, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen, work of an embroiderer; their pillars four, their sockets four.Exodus 27:18 · בָֽאַמָּ֜ה · אַמּ֖וֹתThe length of the court is a hundred by the cubit, and the breadth fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits, of twined linen, and their sockets are brass,Exodus 30:2 · אַמָּ֨ה · וְאַמָּ֤ה · וְאַמָּתַ֖יִםa cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth, (it is square), and two cubits its height; its horns are of the same.Exodus 36:9 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הThe length of the one curtain is eight and twenty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain four by the cubit; one measure is to all the curtains.Exodus 36:15 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · אַמּ֔וֹתthe length of the one curtain is thirty by the cubit, and the breadth of the one curtain is four cubits; one measure is to the eleven curtains;Exodus 36:21 · אַמֹּ֖ות · וְאַמָּה֙ · הָֽאַמָּ֔הten cubits is the length of the one board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the one board;Exodus 37:1 · אַמָּתַ֨יִם · וְאַמָּ֤ה · וְאַמָּ֥הAnd Bezaleel maketh the ark of shittim wood, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height;Exodus 37:6 · אַמָּתַ֤יִם · וְאַמָּ֥הAnd he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;Exodus 37:10 · אַמָּתַ֤יִם · וְאַמָּ֣ה · וְאַמָּ֥הAnd he maketh the table of shittim wood; two cubits its length, and a cubit its breadth, and a cubit and a half its height,Exodus 37:25 · אַמָּ֣ה · וְאַמָּ֨ה · וְאַמָּתַ֙יִם֙And he maketh the perfume-altar of shittim wood; a cubit its length, and a cubit its breadth (square), and two cubits its height; its horns have been of the same;Exodus 38:1 · אַמּ֨וֹת · אַמּ֤וֹת · אַמּ֖וֹתAnd he maketh the altar of burnt-offering of shittim wood, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth (square), and three cubits its height;Exodus 38:9 · בָּאַמָּֽה׃And he maketh the court; at the south side southward, the hangings of the court of twined linen, a hundred by the cubit,Exodus 38:11 · בָֽאַמָּ֔הand at the north side, a hundred by the cubit, their pillars are twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver;Exodus 38:12 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הand at the west side are hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars are ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets are silver;Exodus 38:13 · אַמָּֽה׃and at the east side eastward fifty cubits.Exodus 38:14 · אַמָּ֖הThe hangings on the side are fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three,Exodus 38:15 · אַמָּ֑הand at the second side at the gate of the court, on this and on that, are hangings, fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three;Exodus 38:18 · אַמָּה֙ · אַמּ֔וֹתAnd the covering of the gate of the court is the work of an embroiderer, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen; and twenty cubits is the length, and the height with the breadth five cubits, over-against the hangings of the court;Numbers 11:31 · וּכְאַמָּתַ֖יִםAnd a spirit hath journeyed from Jehovah, and cutteth off quails from the sea, and leaveth by the camp, as a day’s journey here, and as a day’s journey there, round about the camp, and about two cubits, on the face of the land.Numbers 35:4 · אַמָּ֖הAnd the suburbs of the cities which ye give to the Levites are, from the wall of the city and without, a thousand cubits round about.Numbers 35:5 · בָּֽאַמָּ֟ה · בָּאַמָּ֜ה · בָּֽאַמָּ֗ה · בָּאַמָּ֖הAnd ye have measured from the outside of the city, the east quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the south quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the west quarter, two thousand by the cubit, and the north quarter, two thousand by the cubit; and the city is in the midst; this is to them the suburbs of the cities.Deuteronomy 3:11 · אַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֛וֹת · בְּאַמַּת־for only Og king of Bashan had been left of the remnant of the Rephaim; lo, his bedstead is a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits its length, and four cubits its breadth, by the cubit of a man.Joshua 3:4 · אַמָּ֖הonly, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; ye do not come near unto it, so that ye know the way in which ye go, for ye have not passed over in the way heretofore.’1 Samuel 17:4 · אַמּ֖וֹתAnd there goeth out a man of the duellists from the camps of the Philistines, Goliath is his name, from Gath; his height is six cubits and a span,1 Kings 6:2 · אַמָּ֥ה · אַמָּ֖הAs to the house that king Solomon hath built for Jehovah, sixty cubits is its length, and twenty its breadth, and thirty cubits its height.1 Kings 6:3 · אַמָּה֙ · בָּאַמָּ֛הAs to the porch on the front of the temple of the house, twenty cubits is its length on the front of the breadth of the house; ten by the cubit is its breadth on the front of the house;1 Kings 6:6 · בָּאַמָּ֣ה · בָּֽאַמָּה֙ · בָּאַמָּ֖הThe lowest couch, five by the cubit is its breadth; and the middle, six by the cubit is its breadth; and the third, seven by the cubit is its breadth, for withdrawings he hath put to the house round about, without—not to lay hold on the walls of the house.1 Kings 6:10 · אַמּ֖וֹתAnd he buildeth the couch against all the house, five cubits is its height, and it taketh hold of the house by cedar-wood.1 Kings 6:16 · אַמָּ֜הAnd he buildeth the twenty cubits on the sides of the house with ribs of cedar, from the floor unto the walls; and he buildeth for it within, for the oracle, for the holy of holies.1 Kings 6:17 · בָּאַמָּ֖הAnd forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.1 Kings 6:20 · אַמָּ֨ה · אַמָּ֣ה · אַמָּה֙And before the oracle is twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits is its height; and he overlayeth it with gold refined, and overlayeth the altar with cedar.1 Kings 6:23 · אַמּ֖וֹתAnd he maketh within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits is their height;1 Kings 6:24 · אַמּ֗וֹת · אַמּ֔וֹת · אַמּ֔וֹתand five cubits is the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the ends of its wings even unto the ends of its wings;1 Kings 6:25 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הand ten by the cubit is the second cherub, one measure and one form are to the two cherubs,1 Kings 6:26 · בָּֽאַמָּ֑הthe height of the one cherub is ten by the cubit, and so is the second cherub;1 Kings 7:2 · אַמָּ֤ה · אַמָּה֙ · אַמָּ֖הAnd he buildeth the house of the forest of Lebanon; a hundred cubits is its length, and fifty cubits its breadth, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar-beams on the pillars;1 Kings 7:6 · אַמָּה֙ · אַמָּ֖הAnd the porch of the pillars he hath made; fifty cubits its length, and thirty cubits its breadth, and the porch is before them, and pillars and a thick place are before them.1 Kings 7:10 · אַמּ֔וֹת · אַמּֽוֹת׃And the foundation is of precious stone, great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits;1 Kings 7:15 · אַמָּ֗ה · אַמָּ֔הAnd he formeth the two pillars of brass; eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass the second pillar.1 Kings 7:16 · אַמּ֗וֹת · אַמּ֔וֹתAnd two chapiters he hath made to put on the tops of the pillars, cast in brass; five cubits the height of the one chapiter, and five cubits the height of the second chapiter.1 Kings 7:19 · אַמּֽוֹת׃And the chapiters that are on the top of the pillars are of lily-work in the porch, four cubits;1 Kings 7:23 · בָּ֠אַמָּה · בָּֽאַמָּה֙ · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הAnd he maketh the molten sea, ten by the cubit from its edge unto its edge; it is round all about, and five by the cubit is its height, and a line of thirty by the cubit doth compass it round about;1 Kings 7:24 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הand knops beneath its brim round about are compassing it, ten by the cubit, going round the sea round about; in two rows are the knops, cast in its being cast.1 Kings 7:27 · בָּאַמָּ֗ה · בָּֽאַמָּה֙ · בָּאַמָּ֖הAnd he maketh the ten bases of brass; four by the cubit is the length of the one base, and four by the cubit its breadth, and three by the cubit its height.1 Kings 7:31 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · אַמָּ֖ה · הָֽאַמָּ֑הAnd its mouth within the chapiter and above is by the cubit, and its mouth is round, the work of the base, a cubit and half a cubit; and also on its mouth are carvings and their borders, square, not round.1 Kings 7:32 · אַמָּ֖ה · הָאַמָּֽה׃And the four wheels are under the borders, and the spokes of the wheels are in the base, and the height of the one wheel is a cubit and half a cubit.1 Kings 7:35 · הָאַמָּ֛הAnd in the top of the base is the half of a cubit in the height all round about; and on the top of the base its spokes and its borders are of the same.1 Kings 7:38 · בָּֽאַמָּה֙And he maketh ten lavers of brass; forty baths doth the one laver contain, four by the cubit is the one laver, one laver on the one base is to the ten bases;2 Kings 14:13 · אַמָּֽה׃And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, caught hath Jehoash king of Israel in Beth-Shemesh, and they come in to Jerusalem, and he bursteth through the wall of Jerusalem, at the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits,2 Kings 25:17 · אַמָּ֜ה · אַמּוֹת֒eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it is of brass, and the height of the chapiter is three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates are on the chapiter round about—the whole is of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net.1 Chronicles 11:23 · בָּאַמָּ֗הAnd he hath smitten the man, the Egyptian—a man of measure, five by the cubit—and in the hand of the Egyptian is a spear like a beam of weavers, and he goeth down unto him with a rod, and taketh violently away the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slayeth him with his own spear.2 Chronicles 3:3 · אַמּ֞וֹת · אַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֥וֹתAnd in these hath Solomon been instructed to build the house of God: The length in cubits by the former measure is sixty cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.2 Chronicles 3:4 · אַמּ֣וֹתAs to the porch that is on the front, the length is by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.2 Chronicles 3:8 · אַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֣וֹתAnd he maketh the most holy house: its length is by the front of the breadth of the house twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits, and he covereth it with good gold, to six hundred talents;2 Chronicles 3:11 · אַמּ֣וֹת · לְאַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֣וֹתas to the wings of the cherubs, their length is twenty cubits, the wing of the one is five cubits, touching the wall of the house, and the other wing is five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherub.2 Chronicles 3:12 · אַמּ֣וֹת · אַמּ֣וֹתAnd the wing of the other cherub is five cubits touching the wall of the house, and the other wing is five cubits, adhering to the wing of the other cherub.2 Chronicles 3:13 · אַמּ֣וֹתThe wings of these cherubs are spreading forth twenty cubits, and they are standing on their feet and their faces are inward.2 Chronicles 3:15 · אַמּ֕וֹת · אַמּ֥וֹתAnd he maketh at the front of the house two pillars, thirty and five cubits in length, and the ornament that is on their heads five cubits.2 Chronicles 4:1 · אַמָּה֙ · אַמָּ֖ה · אַמּ֖וֹתAnd he maketh an altar of brass, twenty cubits its length, and twenty cubits its breadth, and ten cubits its height.2 Chronicles 4:2 · בָּֽ֠אַמָּה · בָּֽאַמָּה֙ · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הAnd he maketh the molten sea; ten by the cubit, from its edge unto its edge, round in compass, and five by the cubit its height, and a line of thirty by the cubit doth compass it, round about.2 Chronicles 4:3 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔הAnd the likeness of oxen is under it, all round about encompassing it, ten in the cubit, compassing the sea round about; two rows of oxen are cast in its being cast.2 Chronicles 6:13 · אַמּ֜וֹת · אַמּוֹת֙ · וְאַמּ֥וֹתfor Solomon hath made a scaffold of brass, and putteth it in the midst of the court, five cubits its length, and five cubits its breadth, and three cubits its height, and he standeth upon it, and kneeleth on his knees over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth forth his hands towards the heavens—2 Chronicles 25:23 · אַמָּֽה׃And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, hath Joash king of Israel caught in Beth-Shemesh, and bringeth him in to Jerusalem, and breaketh down in the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits,Nehemiah 3:13 · אַמָּה֙The gate of the valley hath Hanun strengthened, and the inhabitants of Zanoah; they have built it, and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars, and a thousand cubits in the wall unto the dung-gate.Esther 5:14 · אַמָּה֒And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, ‘Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;’ and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.Esther 7:9 · אַמָּ֑הAnd Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, ‘Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;’ and the king saith, ‘Hang him upon it.’Isaiah 6:4 · אַמּ֣וֹתAnd the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.Jeremiah 51:13 · אַמַּ֥תO dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.Jeremiah 52:21 · אַמָּה֙ · אַמָּ֖הAs to the pillars, eighteen cubits is the height of the one pillar, and a cord of twelve cubits doth compass it, and its thickness is four fingers hollow.Jeremiah 52:22 · אַמּוֹת֒And the chapiter upon it is of brass, and the height of the one chapiter is five cubits, and net-work and pomegranates are on the chapiter round about, the whole is of brass; and like these have the second pillar, and pomegranates.Zechariah 5:2 · בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · בָּאַמָּֽה׃And he saith unto me, ‘What art thou seeing?’ And I say, ‘I am seeing a flying roll, its length twenty by the cubit, and its breadth ten by the cubit.’