cubit
5
9.9
- noun
- /ˈkjuːbɪt/
- Archaic
:
codo
- His height is six cubits and a span, and his spear is like a weaver's beam.
It was just cord, but yeah, man, I mean the the royal cubit conversation is kind of interesting.
- It was just cord, but yeah, man, I mean the the royal cubit conversation is kind of interesting.
Examples
-
Then he made the ten stands of bronze; the length of each stand was four cubits, its width four cubits, and its height three cubits.
Blog text (34) -
We're commanded to keep sabbaths and holy days, on which we may not travel more than two thousand cubits.
Fiction book (2001) -
Can any of you by taking thought add one cubit to his stature?
Blog text (17) -
About six cubits ought to be enough for emergency repair.
-
HOBBES: A cubit, that's a distance or something, right?
-
The staff she carried in her right hand was a cubit and a half of ebony, bound and ornamented with silver wire.
Fiction book (2002) -
You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
Blog text (34) -
"The ark was 300 cubits long and 50 cubits high."
-
The length of the ark shall be 300 cubits... the breadth of it 50 cubits... and the height of it 30 cubits.
-
The length of the room was measured to be about five cubits from one end to the other.
How Long
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cubit comes from the Latin cubitum, which means 'elbow'. Ancient people used the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger as a simple way to measure, so a cubit is that body-length and the origin explains the word's meaning.