Cubit/hour
πῆχυςStrong’s G4083pēchus
Appears in 4 verses of the New Testament
In short
Pēchus is the Greek word usually translated “hour” and “cubits”. It appears in 4 verses of the New Testament.
“Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?”
Meaning
Usually translated “hour” and “cubits”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- hour 2
- cubits 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 1
- Luke 1
- John 1
- Revelation 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Luke 12:25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
- John 21:8And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
- Revelation 21:17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Greek dictionary
πῆχυς pēchus · cubit/hour
πῆχυς, -εως genitive pl., -ῶν (for Att.. -εων, see WH, App., 157; Thackeray, Gr., 151; Deiss., BS, 153), [in LXX chiefly and frequently for אַמָּה ;] 1. the forearm (Hom.). 2. As a measure of length, a cubit: Mat.6:27, Luk.12:25, Jhn.21:8, Rev.21:17.† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HOUR, noun
our. [Latin hora; also Latin tempestivus, from tempus. See Time. But hour hora, afterward came to signify a certain portion or division of the day. This has been different in different nations.]
- A space of time equal to one twenty fourth part of the natural day, or duration of the diurnal revolution of the earth.
- Time; a particular time; as the hour of death.“Jesus saith, woman, my hour is not yet come” John 2:4
- The time marked or indicated by a chronometer, clock or watch; the particular time of the day.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.