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:
1 Kings 7:15: "apiece: and a line of twelve cubits did compass either of them about."
1 Kings 7:16: "of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five"
1 Kings 7:16: "of the other chapiter was five cubits:"
1 Kings 7:19: "work four cubits."
1 Kings 7:23: "a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim the other:"
1 Kings 7:23: "it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits"
1 Kings 7:23: "was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
1 Kings 7:24: "of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, the sea"
1 Kings 7:27: "cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height"
1 Kings 7:27: "bases of brass; four cubits of one base, and four"
1 Kings 7:27: "of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height"
1 Kings 7:31: "of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round"
1 Kings 7:31: "but the mouth thereof was round of the base, a cubit and a half: and also"
1 Kings 7:31: "thereof was round of the base, a cubit and a half: and a half: and also upon"
1 Kings 7:32: "were joined to the base: of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit."
1 Kings 7:32: "of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit."
1 Kings 7:35: "was there a round compass of half a cubit high: the top of the base"
1 Kings 7:38: "and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases"
2 Kings 14:13: "gate, four hundred cubits."
2 Kings 25:17: "of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon"
2 Kings 25:17: "and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen work, and pomegranates upon"
1 Chronicles 11:23: "an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear"
2 Chronicles 3:3: "of the house of God. by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits,"
2 Chronicles 3:3: "after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits."
2 Chronicles 3:3: "cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits."
2 Chronicles 3:4: "of it was according to the breadth twenty cubits, and the height was a hundred and twenty:"
2 Chronicles 3:8: "whereof was according to the breadth twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty"
2 Chronicles 3:8: "twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine"
2 Chronicles 3:11: "And the wings of the cherubims were twenty cubits long: one wing"
2 Chronicles 3:11: "one wing cubits, reaching to the wall of the house: and the other"
2 Chronicles 3:11: "and the other wing was likewise five cubits, reaching to the wing of the other cherub."
2 Chronicles 3:12: "of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to the wall and the other"
2 Chronicles 3:12: "and the other wing was five cubits also, joining to the wing of the other cherub."
2 Chronicles 3:13: "cherubims spread themselves forth twenty cubits: and they on their feet,"
2 Chronicles 3:15: "pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on"
2 Chronicles 3:15: "was on the top of each of them was five cubits."
2 Chronicles 4:1: "an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty the breadth"
2 Chronicles 4:1: "cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height"
2 Chronicles 4:1: "the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height"
2 Chronicles 4:2: "a molten sea of ten cubits from brim brim,"
2 Chronicles 4:2: "brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty"
2 Chronicles 4:2: "cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about."
2 Chronicles 4:3: "which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, the sea"
2 Chronicles 6:13: "a brazen scaffold, of five cubits and five cubits broad,"
2 Chronicles 6:13: "cubits and five cubits broad, and three cubits high,"
2 Chronicles 6:13: "cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court:"
2 Chronicles 25:23: "the corner gate, four hundred cubits."
Nehemiah 3:13: "thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and a thousand cubits on the wall unto the dung gate."
Esther 5:14: "unto him, Let a gallows be made cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king"
Esther 7:9: "also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made"
