Hebrew noun (feminine) · H520
אַמָּה
ammaham-maw'
cubit; foundation
247 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼammâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H520is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 71spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H520
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)
The King James renders it: cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ammah is rendered "cubit; foundation". It stands 247 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Eighty-eight of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "cubit".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 6:15And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
- The Greek text spells it seventy-one different ways.
The first use
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
Genesis 6:15אַמָּ֗ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eighty-eight of the word's 247 uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: cubit, and foundation.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| cubitStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereGenesis 6:15And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide… |
| foundationStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cubits80
- cubit70
- by the cubit42
- and a cubit16
- a cubit14
- the cubit8
- two cubits6
- and the cubit2
- and two cubits2
- and about two cubits1
- and cubits1
- by a cubit of1
and 4 more, 247 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| אַמָּה | ammah | cubit | Uses4 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 247, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
71 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַמָּה֙15
- אַמָּֽה׃15
- אַמָּ֖ה14
- אַמּ֖וֹת14
- אַמּ֣וֹת14
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה14
- אַמּ֔וֹת10
- אַמָּ֑ה8
- אַמָּ֔ה8
- אַמּ֑וֹת8
- אַמּֽוֹת׃8
- אַמָּ֗ה6
and 59 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular84HNcfsa
- noun · feminine plural80HNcfpa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular42HRd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular16HC/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular8HTd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine dual6HNcfda
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dual2HC/Ncfda
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Td/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dual1HC/R/Ncfda
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
Genesis
five uses
And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Exodus
fifty-nine uses
And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- אַמָּתַ֨יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֤הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- אַמָּתַ֤יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- אַמָּתַ֤יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֣הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
- וְהָאַמָּ֨הvehaamahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the cubit
- וְהָאַמָּ֤הvehaamahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the cubit
Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- וְאַמָּה֙veamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- הָֽאַמָּ֔הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
“You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- אַמּ֨וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
- בָֽאַמָּה֙vaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
- אַמָּ֛הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
- בָֽאַמָּ֜הvaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
- אַמָּ֨הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֤הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּתַ֖יִםveamatayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: and two cubits
Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- אַמֹּ֖ותʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- וְאַמָּה֙veamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- הָֽאַמָּ֔הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- אַמָּתַ֨יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֤הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
- אַמָּתַ֤יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
- אַמָּתַ֤יִםʾamatayimnoun · feminine dualtagged: two cubits
- וְאַמָּ֣הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֥הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- וְאַמָּ֨הveamahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- וְאַמָּתַ֙יִם֙veamatayimconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine dualtagged: and two cubits
Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- אַמּ֨וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֤וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
- בָּאַמָּֽה׃baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
- בָֽאַמָּ֔הvaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Numbers
six uses
Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
- וּכְאַמָּתַ֖יִםukheamatayimconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine dualtagged: and about two cubits
The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֟הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֜הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּ֗הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֖הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Deuteronomy
three uses
(For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֛וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- בְּאַמַּת־beamat-preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: by a cubit of
Joshua
one use
But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
1 Samuel
one use
Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
1 Kings
forty-five uses
The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- אַמָּ֥הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֛הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
- בָּאַמָּ֣הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֖הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
- אַמָּ֜הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
- בָּאַמָּ֖הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
- אַמָּ֨הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.
- אַמּ֗וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֑הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
- אַמָּ֤הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
- אַמּ֗וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- בָּ֠אַמָּהbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- בָּאַמָּ֗הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּ֖הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- הָֽאַמָּ֑הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- הָאַמָּֽה׃haamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.
- הָאַמָּ֛הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
He also made ten bronze basins, each holding forty baths and measuring four cubits across, one basin for each of the ten stands.
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
2 Kings
three uses
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Ahaziah. Then Jehoash went to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.
- אַמָּ֜הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּוֹת֒ʾamahnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
1 Chronicles
one use
He also killed an Egyptian, a huge man five cubits tall. Although the Egyptian had a spear like a weaver’s beam in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.
- בָּאַמָּ֗הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
2 Chronicles
twenty-five uses
The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.
- אַמּ֞וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֥וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Then he made the Most Holy Place; its length corresponded to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the wall of the temple, and its other wing was five cubits long and touched the wing of the other cherub.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- לְאַמּ֣וֹתleamotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: to cubits
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The wing of the second cherub also measured five cubits and touched the wall of the temple, while its other wing measured five cubits and touched the wing of the first cherub.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
So the total wingspan of these cherubim was twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main room.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
- אַמּ֕וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֥וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
He made a bronze altar twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and ten cubits high.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
- בָּֽ֠אַמָּהbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Below the rim, figures of oxen encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Now Solomon had made a bronze platform five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had placed it in the middle of the courtyard. He stood on it, knelt down before the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- אַמּ֜וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּוֹת֙ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- וְאַמּ֥וֹתveamotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and cubits
There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Nehemiah
one use
The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it, installed its doors, bolts, and bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall as far as the Dung Gate.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Esther
two uses
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- אַמָּה֒ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Isaiah
one use
At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook, and the temple was filled with smoke.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: foundations of
Jeremiah
four uses
You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
- אַמַּ֥תʾamatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: cubit of
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The bronze capital atop one pillar was five cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its pomegranates, was similar.
- אַמּוֹת֒ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Ezekiel
eighty-eight uses
And I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- אַמּ֤וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- בָּֽאַמָּה֙baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
it was eight cubits deep, and its jambs were two cubits thick. And the portico of the gateway faced the temple.
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
And he measured the width of the gateway entrance to be ten cubits, and its length was thirteen cubits.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
In front of each gate chamber was a wall one cubit high, and the gate chambers were six cubits square.
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- וְאַמָּה־veamah-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one gate chamber to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was twenty-five cubits from doorway to doorway.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
And the distance from the entrance of the gateway to the far end of its inner portico was fifty cubits.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Its three gate chambers on each side, its side pillars, and its portico all had the same measurements as the first gate: fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- בָּאַמָּֽה׃baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around; it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
(The porticoes around the inner court were twenty-five cubits long and five cubits deep.)
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
- אַמָּ֨הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- אַמָּ֤הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.
- אַמּוֹת֙ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּוֹת֙ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
- אַמּ֨וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּֽוֹת־ʾamot-noun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
- אַמּוֹת֒ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּוֹת֙ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- אַמָּ֗הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֜וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- אַמָּ֛הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
- אַמּ֖וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמּ֥וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
- אַמּ֨וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּ֗וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
- אַמּ֣וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמּֽוֹת׃ʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- אַמּ֥וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
- אַמָּ֑הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
- אַמָּֽה׃ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- בָּֽאַמּ֔וֹתbaamotpreposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: by the cubits
- אַמָּ֥הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- אַמָּ֖הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- הָאַמָּ֜הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
- וְאַמָּה־veamah-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a cubit
The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- אַמָּ֣הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
- אַמּ֔וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
- הָאַמָּֽה׃haamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- אַמּ֑וֹתʾamotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: cubits
The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
- הָאַמָּ֗הhaamahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the cubit
- אַמָּה֙ʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a cubit
Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
- אַמָּ֔הʾamahnoun · feminine singulartagged: cubit
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
Zechariah
two uses
“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- בָּֽאַמָּ֔הbaamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
- בָּאַמָּֽה׃baamahpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: by the cubit
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