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

• Ezekiel 42:2 The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
• Ezekiel 42:4 In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
• Ezekiel 42:7 An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
• Ezekiel 42:8 For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
• Ezekiel 43:13 These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
• Ezekiel 43:14 The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.
• Ezekiel 43:15 The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
• Ezekiel 43:17 The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
• Ezekiel 45:2 Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
• Ezekiel 47:3 As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.
• Zechariah 5:2 “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”