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# cubit

«cubit» in Mova's school 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/school/C/cubit/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales a cubit measures a fish, a horn or a heap of grain

### examples

- The fish was only a cubit long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cubit/#x1)
- The horn is about a cubit long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cubit/#x2)
- They have cleared only one cubit of the granary. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cubit/#x3)

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