Cubit
אַמָּהStrong’s H0521ammah (am-mah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ammah is the Aramaic word usually translated “cubits”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.”
Meaning
- Cubit-a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (.
How it's translated
- cubits 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
- Daniel 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Aramaic dictionary
אַמָּה ammah · cubit
cubit-a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (. 5 m) Aramaic of am.mah (אַמָּה "cubit" H0520A)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cubit” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CUBIT, noun
[Latin, the elbow; signifying a turn or corner; Gr.]
- In anatomy, the fore arm; the ulna, and bone of the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
- In mensuration, the length of a mans arm from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.