Strong's #520: 'ammah (pronounced am-maw')
prolonged from 517; properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance):--cubit, + hundred (by exchange for 3967), measure, post.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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'ammâh
1) cubit - a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 inches (.5 meters). There are several cubits used in the OT, the cubit of a man or common cubit (Deuteronomy 3:11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Ezekiel 40:5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment.
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: prolonged from H517
Usage:
This word is used 245 times:
Genesis 6:15: "of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height"
Genesis 6:15: "the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."
Genesis 6:15: "cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits."
Genesis 6:16: "shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above;"
Genesis 7:20: "Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains"
Exodus 25:10: "an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length and a half"
Exodus 25:10: "two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half"
Exodus 25:10: "and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 25:17: "a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length and a half"
Exodus 25:17: "two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth"
Exodus 25:23: "a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit thereof, and a cubit"
Exodus 25:23: "wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit thereof, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 25:23: "shall be the length thereof, and a cubit thereof, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 26:2: "curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth curtain four"
Exodus 26:2: "curtain four cubits: and every one of the curtains shall have one measure."
Exodus 26:8: "of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one four"
Exodus 26:8: "of one four cubits: and the eleven curtains shall be all of one"
Exodus 26:13: " And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length"
Exodus 26:13: "And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length"
Exodus 26:16: "Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth"
Exodus 26:16: "cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth board."
Exodus 27:1: "of shittim wood, five cubits and five cubits broad;"
Exodus 27:1: "cubits and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare:"
Exodus 27:1: "foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits."
Exodus 27:9: "for the court of fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long for one side:"
Exodus 27:12: "side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: ten, and their sockets ten."
Exodus 27:13: "side eastward shall be fifty cubits."
Exodus 27:14: "The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets"
Exodus 27:16: "of the court shall be a hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple,"
Exodus 27:18: "The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height"
Exodus 27:18: "fifty every where, and the height cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets"
Exodus 30:2: " A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits"
Exodus 30:2: "A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits"
Exodus 30:2: "the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits thereof: the horns thereof shall be of"
Exodus 36:9: "curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth curtain four"
Exodus 36:9: "curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size."
Exodus 36:15: "of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits of one"
Exodus 36:15: "was thirty cubits, and four cubits of one curtain: the eleven"
Exodus 36:21: "The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board"
Exodus 36:21: "and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half."
Exodus 37:1: "the ark of shittim wood: two cubits was the length of it, and a cubit and a half"
Exodus 37:1: "two cubits was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half"
Exodus 37:1: "of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 37:6: "the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length and a half"
Exodus 37:6: "two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth"
Exodus 37:10: "the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length the breadth thereof, and a cubit"
Exodus 37:10: "wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 37:10: "was the length the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height"
Exodus 37:25: "of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits"
Exodus 37:25: "the length and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns"
