אַמָּה ammah

Hebrew word for “cubit” · Strong’s H520 · used 247 times in 131 verses

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Meaning

cubit-a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (.

Senses in the lexicon

• cubit (246)
• foundation (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for ammah in context, with how often each is used:

• cubits 153
• cubit 76
• will be a cubit 8
• will be two cubits 4
• two cubits 4
• about two cubits 1
• foundations 1

Where it is used

Also in 4 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Ezekiel 40 (21), Ezekiel 41 (14), 1 Kings 7 (13), 1 Kings 6 (11), Exodus 38 (8), Exodus 27 (7), 2 Chronicles 3 (7), Exodus 26 (4), Exodus 37 (4), Ezekiel 42 (4)

Forms

• אמה 84
• אמות 81
• באמה 42
• ואמה 16
• האמה 8
• אמתים 6
• והאמה 2
• ואמתים 2
• וכאמתים 1
• באמת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with ammah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֹחַב rochav “width” 65
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 57
• קוֹמָה qomah “height” 30
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 34
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 27
• מָדַד madad “to measure” 18
• סָבִיב saviv “around” 25
• עֶשֶׂר eser “ten” 21
• אֶחָד echad “one” 30
• חֲמִשִּׁים chamishshim “fifty” 20
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 17
• אַרְבַּע arba “four” 19

Key verses

The verses using ammah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 25:23 — Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height…
• Exodus 27:1 — And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three…
• Exodus 27:9 — And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits…
• Exodus 38:1 — And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three…
• Deuteronomy 3:11 — For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine…
• 1 Samuel 17:4 — And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
• 2 Chronicles 4:1 — Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
• 2 Chronicles 25:23 — And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down…
• Esther 5:14 — Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be…
• Esther 7:9 — And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good…
• Jeremiah 51:13 — O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
• Ezekiel 41:22 — The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and the walls thereof, were of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.