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# cubit

«cubit» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **half a metre (about 45 cm)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic sense

### modern equivalent

half a metre (about 45 cm)

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

An old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cubit/#m1)

### how it differs from today

No longer used; today we measure in metres and centimetres. Sentences give lengths in cubits.

### examples

- Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. (Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cubit/#x1)
- Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cubit/#x2)
- Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. (Torah EXO.26.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cubit/#x3)

### primary record

cubit

### tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 26 (Torah 20, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.9 (Torah alone 46.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

### In the corpora

- [Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.191/)
- [Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.756/)
- [And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.790/)
- [The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.791/)
- [And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.792/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cubit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/C/cubit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.