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# cubit

«cubit» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **an old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (cubits; old use)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) A cubit is an old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, about 45 cm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The cubit (ammah) is the Torah's measure for Noah's ark, the Tabernacle, the court and the altar. Interpretation: Tradition debates the exact length of the cubit and uses it to work out many laws on building and distance, such as how far one may walk on Shabbat. In the primary lessons: in old tales a cubit measures a fish, a horn or a heap of grain

### examples

- And for the east side eastward fifty cubits. (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x1)
- Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered. (Torah GEN.7.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x2)
- And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits. (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x3)
- And the house, that is, the temple before the Sanctuary, was forty cubits long. (Prophets 1KI.6.17, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x4)
- And in the Sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high. (Prophets 1KI.6.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x5)
- And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad. (Prophets EZK.40.30, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x6)
- The fish was only a cubit long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x7)
- The horn is about a cubit long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x8)
- They have cleared only one cubit of the granary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/cubit/#x9)

### note

a cubit is a length, not a count of things; to change cubits to centimetres, multiply by about 45.

### 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/judaism/C/cubit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.