קוֹמָה qomah

Hebrew word for “height” · Strong’s H6967 · used 45 times in 43 verses

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Meaning

1) height; 1a) height, stature; 1b) height

How it is translated

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

• height 39
• stature 6

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

1 Kings 7 (7), 1 Kings 6 (5), Ezekiel 31 (4), Exodus 37 (3), Exodus 25 (2), Exodus 27 (2), Exodus 38 (2), 2 Chronicles 4 (2), Jeremiah 52 (2), Genesis 6 (1)

Forms

• קומתו 12
• קמתו 9
• קומת 8
• קומה 4
• וקומת 3
• קומתה 2
• וקומה 2
• וקמה 1
• קומתך 1
• הקומה 1

Words used with it

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

• אַמָּה ammah “cubit” 30
• רֹחַב rochav “width” 18
• אֹרֶךְ orekh “length” 17
• עֵץ ets “tree” 11
• שִׁטָּה shittah “acacia” 7
• חָמֵשׁ chamesh “five” 10
• נְחֹשֶׁת nechoshet “bronze” 8
• אֶרֶז erez “cedar” 6
• עַמּוּד ammud “pillar” 6
• חֲצִי chetsi “half” 6
• אֶחָד echad “one” 9
• רָבַע rava “to square” 4

Key verses

The verses using qomah 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 37:25 — And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of…
• 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…
• 1 Samuel 16:7 — But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth;…
• 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 6:13 — For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon…
• Isaiah 10:33 — Behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, shall lop the bough with terror: and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down, and the haughty shall be humbled.
• Isaiah 37:24 — By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of…
• Ezekiel 19:11 — And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the…
• Ezekiel 31:3 — Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
• Ezekiel 31:14 — To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees…

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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.