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Short cubit

גֹּ֫מֶדStrong’s H1574

gomed (go-med)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Gomed is the Hebrew word usually translated “cubit”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh.”
Judges 3:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Cubit
  2. (CLBL) half-cubit-the measure between a cubit and a span-9 in (20 cm)
How it's translated
  • a cubit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Judges 1

1 book in all.

Explore in Scripture
    Hebrew dictionary

    גֹּ֫מֶד gomed · short cubit

    1) cubit 2) (CLBL) half-cubit-the measure between a cubit and a span-9 in (20 cm)

    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.]

    1. In anatomy, the fore arm; the ulna, and bone of the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
    2. 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.