Word Study · Strong's H521 · Hebrew
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.
- 4occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- אַמִּ֣ין3
- אַמִּ֥ין1
How it is rendered · 2
- [was] cubits2
- cubits2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- noun · masculine plural4
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Where this word lives
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Ezra2 occurrences
- Ezra 6:3אַמִּ֣יןʾaminnoun · masculine pluralIn the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,here: cubits
- Ezra 6:3אַמִּ֥יןʾaminnoun · masculine pluralIn the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,here: cubits
Daniel2 occurrences
- Daniel 3:1אַמִּ֣יןʾaminnoun · masculine pluralKing Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.here: [was] cubits
- Daniel 3:1אַמִּ֣יןʾaminnoun · masculine pluralKing Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.here: [was] cubits
Same headword in Strong's