אַמָּה ʼammâh

Meaning

properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)

In the King James Version: cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.

Derivation: prolonged from H517 (אֵם);

Where it is used

• Genesis 6:15 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.
• Genesis 6:16 You are to make a roof for the ark, finish its walls a cubit from the top, place a door in the side of the ark, and build lower, middle, and upper decks.
• Genesis 7:20 The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
• Exodus 25:10 And they are to construct an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
• Exodus 25:17 And you are to construct a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• Exodus 25:23 You are also to make a table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
• Exodus 26:2 Each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide—all curtains the same size.
• Exodus 26:8 Each of the eleven curtains is to be the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
• Exodus 26:13 And the tent curtains will be a cubit longer on either side, and the excess will hang over the sides of the tabernacle to cover it.
• Exodus 26:16 Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• Exodus 27:1 “You are to build an altar of acacia wood. The altar must be square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• Exodus 27:9 You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
• Exodus 27:12 The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
• Exodus 27:13 The east side of the courtyard, toward the sunrise, is to be fifty cubits wide.
• Exodus 27:14 Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
• Exodus 27:16 The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.
• Exodus 27:18 The entire courtyard shall be a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, with curtains of finely spun linen five cubits high, and with bronze bases.
• Exodus 30:2 It is to be square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns must be of one piece.
• Exodus 36:9 Each curtain was twenty-eight cubits long and four cubits wide; all the curtains were the same size.
• Exodus 36:15 Each of the eleven curtains was the same size—thirty cubits long and four cubits wide.
• Exodus 36:21 Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• Exodus 37:1 Bezalel went on to construct the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
• Exodus 37:6 He constructed a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
• Exodus 37:10 He also made the table of acacia wood two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.
• Exodus 37:25 He made the altar of incense out of acacia wood. It was square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high. Its horns were of one piece.
• Exodus 38:1 Bezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• Exodus 38:9 Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
• Exodus 38:11 The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
• Exodus 38:12 The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
• Exodus 38:13 And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
• Exodus 38:14 The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
• Exodus 38:15 And the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.
• Exodus 38:18 The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
• Numbers 11:31 Now a wind sent by the LORD came up, drove in quail from the sea, and brought them near the camp, about two cubits above the surface of the ground, for a day’s journey in every direction around the camp.
• Numbers 35:4 The pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
• Numbers 35:5 You are also to measure two thousand cubits outside the city on the east, two thousand on the south, two thousand on the west, and two thousand on the north, with the city in the center. These areas will serve as larger pasturelands for the cities.
• Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
• Joshua 3:4 But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
• 1 Samuel 17:4 Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
• 1 Kings 6:2 The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
• 1 Kings 6:3 The portico at the front of the main hall of the temple was twenty cubits long, extending across the width of the temple and projecting out ten cubits in front of the temple.
• 1 Kings 6:6 The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.
• 1 Kings 6:10 He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
• 1 Kings 6:16 He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
• 1 Kings 6:17 And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
• 1 Kings 6:20 The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
• 1 Kings 6:23 In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
• 1 Kings 6:24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.
• 1 Kings 6:25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,
• 1 Kings 6:26 and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
• 1 Kings 7:2 He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.
• 1 Kings 7:6 Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.
• 1 Kings 7:10 The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
• 1 Kings 7:15 He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
• 1 Kings 7:16 He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on top of the pillars, each capital five cubits high.
• 1 Kings 7:19 And the capitals atop the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, four cubits high.
• 1 Kings 7:23 He also made the Sea of cast metal. It was circular in shape, measuring ten cubits from rim to rim, five cubits in height, and thirty cubits in circumference.
• 1 Kings 7:24 Below the rim, ornamental buds encircled it, ten per cubit all the way around the Sea, cast in two rows as a part of the Sea.
• 1 Kings 7:27 In addition, he made ten movable stands of bronze, each four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.
• 1 Kings 7:31 The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.