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:
Exodus 37:25: "and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of"
Exodus 38:1: "of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth"
Exodus 38:1: "was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits"
Exodus 38:1: "the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height"
Exodus 38:9: "were of fine twined linen, a hundred cubits:"
Exodus 38:11: "And for the north side the hangings were a hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and their sockets"
Exodus 38:12: "side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, ten;"
Exodus 38:13: "side eastward fifty cubits."
Exodus 38:14: "of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three,"
Exodus 38:15: "on this hand and that hand, were hangings cubits; their pillars"
Exodus 38:18: "and purple, and scarlet, and twenty cubits was the length,"
Exodus 38:18: "and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to"
Numbers 11:31: "journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth."
Numbers 35:4: "shall reach from the wall of the city a thousand cubits round about."
Numbers 35:5: "on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand"
Numbers 35:5: "and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand"
Numbers 35:5: "cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand"
Numbers 35:5: "cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this"
Deuteronomy 3:11: "in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits"
Deuteronomy 3:11: "nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."
Deuteronomy 3:11: "was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man."
Joshua 3:4: "a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: unto"
1 Samuel 17:4: "named Goliath, of Gath, was six cubits and a span."
1 Kings 6:2: "for the LORD, the length cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty"
1 Kings 6:2: "thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits."
1 Kings 6:3: "before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length"
1 Kings 6:3: "to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before"
1 Kings 6:6: "The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six"
1 Kings 6:6: "broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits"
1 Kings 6:6: "broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house"
1 Kings 6:10: "all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house"
1 Kings 6:16: "And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both"
1 Kings 6:17: "before it, was forty cubits"
1 Kings 6:20: "And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits"
1 Kings 6:20: "cubits in length, and twenty cubits and twenty cubits in the height"
1 Kings 6:20: "cubits and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold;"
1 Kings 6:23: "of olive tree, each ten cubits high."
1 Kings 6:24: "And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits"
1 Kings 6:24: "wing of the cherub, and five cubits wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part"
1 Kings 6:24: "unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits."
1 Kings 6:25: "And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one"
1 Kings 6:26: "of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other"
1 Kings 7:2: "of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height"
1 Kings 7:2: "and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon"
1 Kings 7:2: "cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar"
1 Kings 7:6: "of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth cubits: and the porch"
1 Kings 7:6: "cubits, and the breadth cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars"
1 Kings 7:10: "stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits."
1 Kings 7:10: "and stones of eight cubits."
1 Kings 7:15: "pillars of brass, of eighteen cubits apiece:"
