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:
Ezekiel 41:2: "on the other side: and he measured the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty"
Ezekiel 41:2: "the length thereof, forty cubits: and the breadth, twenty cubits."
Ezekiel 41:3: "the post of the door, two cubits; six cubits; and the breadth"
Ezekiel 41:3: "cubits; six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits."
Ezekiel 41:3: "and the breadth of the door, seven cubits."
Ezekiel 41:4: "the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty before"
Ezekiel 41:4: "cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said"
Ezekiel 41:5: "the wall of the house, six cubits; and the breadth of every side chamber, cubits,"
Ezekiel 41:5: "and the breadth of every side chamber, cubits, round about the house on every side."
Ezekiel 41:8: "were a full of six great cubits."
Ezekiel 41:9: "was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: was left was the place of the side chambers"
Ezekiel 41:10: "the chambers was the width of twenty cubits round about the house"
Ezekiel 41:11: "of the place that was left was five cubits round about."
Ezekiel 41:12: "at the end toward the west cubits broad; and the wall of the building"
Ezekiel 41:12: "broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about,"
Ezekiel 41:12: "thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits."
Ezekiel 41:13: "the house, a hundred cubits long; and the separate place, with the walls"
Ezekiel 41:13: "with the walls thereof, a hundred cubits long;"
Ezekiel 41:14: "and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits."
Ezekiel 41:15: "was behind thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits,"
Ezekiel 41:22: "The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two"
Ezekiel 41:22: "high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of wood:"
Ezekiel 42:2: "Before the length of a hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth"
Ezekiel 42:2: "was the north door, and the breadth cubits."
Ezekiel 42:4: "the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, of one"
Ezekiel 42:4: "inward, of one cubit; and their doors toward the north."
Ezekiel 42:7: "of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits."
Ezekiel 42:8: "were in the utter court was fifty cubits: and, lo, before the temple"
Ezekiel 42:8: "before the temple were a hundred cubits."
Ezekiel 43:13: "And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth;"
Ezekiel 43:13: "are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth; shall be a cubit,"
Ezekiel 43:13: "of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth; shall be a cubit, and the breadth"
Ezekiel 43:13: "is a cubit and a handbreadth; shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by"
Ezekiel 43:13: "shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about"
Ezekiel 43:14: "even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, one cubit;"
Ezekiel 43:14: "shall be two cubits, one cubit; and from the lesser settle"
Ezekiel 43:14: "and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth"
Ezekiel 43:14: "even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit."
Ezekiel 43:15: "So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns."
Ezekiel 43:17: "the four thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit"
Ezekiel 43:17: "thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs"
Ezekiel 45:2: "in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs"
Ezekiel 47:3: "eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles."
Zechariah 5:2: "roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits."
Zechariah 5:2: "cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits."
