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אַמָּה

ammah

am-maw'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼammâh

properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

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)

Rendered in the KJV as

cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.

  • 247
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 16 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 71
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 247 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 71

  • אַמָּה֙15
  • אַמָּֽה׃15
  • אַמָּ֖ה14
  • אַמּ֖וֹת14
  • אַמּ֣וֹת14
  • בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה14
  • אַמּ֔וֹת10
  • אַמָּ֑ה8
  • אַמָּ֔ה8
  • אַמּ֑וֹת8
  • אַמּֽוֹת׃8
  • אַמָּ֗ה6

and 59 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 25

  • cubits73
  • cubit[s]70
  • by the cubit42
  • and [was] a cubit8
  • [was] cubits7
  • and [will be] a cubit7
  • [was] a cubit6
  • the cubit6
  • a cubit4
  • [is] a cubit3
  • [was] two cubits3
  • [will be] two cubits3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 15

  • noun · feminine singular84
  • noun · feminine plural80
  • preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular42
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular16
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular8
  • noun · feminine dual6
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dual2
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dual1
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1
  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcfsa · 84
  • HNcfpa · 80
  • HRd/Ncfsa · 42
  • HC/Ncfsa · 16
  • HTd/Ncfsa · 8
  • HNcfda · 6
  • HC/Ncfda · 2
  • HC/Td/Ncfsa · 2
  • HC/Ncfpa · 1
  • HC/R/Ncfda · 1
  • HNcfpc · 1
  • HNcfsc · 1

All 247, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

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Genesis5 occurrences
Exodus59 occurrences
Numbers6 occurrences
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
Joshua1 occurrence
1 Samuel1 occurrence
1 Kings45 occurrences
2 Kings3 occurrences
1 Chronicles1 occurrence
2 Chronicles25 occurrences
Nehemiah1 occurrence
Esther2 occurrences
Isaiah1 occurrence
Jeremiah4 occurrences
Ezekiel88 occurrences
Zechariah2 occurrences

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אַמָּה

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).