אַמָּהʼammâh
אַמָּה: ell, cubit
Pronunciation: am-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H520
Meanings
1. cubit (Deuteronomy 3:11; Isaiah 8:1; Ezekiel 40:5)
2. measure (Jeremiah 51:13)
אַמָּה: etymology & meaning dubious (Isaiah 6:4)
ᵑ7: cubit (Daniel 3:1; Ezra 6:3; Ezra 6:8)
Same root
- אֵםʼêm · H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
- אַמָּהʼammâh · H521{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)}
- אַמָּהʼAmmâh · H522Ammah, a hill in Palestine
- מֶתֶג הָאַמָּהMetheg hâ-ʼAmmâh · H4965Metheg-ha-Ammah, an epithet of Gath
Where it appears
Appears 247 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 6:15 Make the boat 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
- Genesis 6:16 Leave an 18-inch opening below the roof all the way around the boat. Put the door on the side, and build three decks inside the boat—lower, middle, and upper.
- Genesis 7:20 rising more than twenty-two feet above the highest peaks.
- Exodus 25:10 “Have the people make an Ark of acacia wood—a sacred chest 45 inches long, 27 inches wide, and 27 inches high.
- Exodus 25:17 “Then make the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—from pure gold. It must be 45 inches long and 27 inches wide.
- Exodus 25:23 “Then make a table of acacia wood, 36 inches long, 18 inches wide, and 27 inches high.
See every passage
- Genesis 6:15, 6:16, 7:20
- Exodus 25:10, 25:17, 25:23, 26:2, 26:8, 26:13, 26:16, 27:1, 27:9, 27:12, 27:13, 27:14, 27:16, 27:18, 30:2, 36:9, 36:15, 36:21, 37:1, 37:6, 37:10, 37:25, 38:1, 38:9, 38:11, 38:12, 38:13, 38:14, 38:15, 38:18
- Numbers 11:31, 35:4, 35:5
- Deuteronomy 3:11
- Joshua 3:4
- 1 Samuel 17:4
- 1 Kings 6:2, 6:3, 6:6, 6:10, 6:16, 6:17, 6:20, 6:23, 6:24, 6:25, 6:26, 7:2, 7:6, 7:10, 7:15, 7:16, 7:19, 7:23, 7:24, 7:27, 7:31, 7:32, 7:35, 7:38
- 2 Kings 14:13, 25:17
- 1 Chronicles 11:23
- 2 Chronicles 3:3, 3:4, 3:8, 3:11, 3:12, 3:13, 3:15, 4:1, 4:2, 4:3, 6:13, 25:23
- Nehemiah 3:13
- Esther 5:14, 7:9
- Isaiah 6:4
- Jeremiah 51:13, 52:21, 52:22
- Ezekiel 40:5, 40:7, 40:9, 40:11, 40:12, 40:13, 40:14, 40:15, 40:19, 40:21, 40:23, 40:25, 40:27, 40:29, 40:30, 40:33, 40:36, 40:42, 40:47, 40:48, 40:49, 41:1, 41:2, 41:3, 41:4, 41:5, 41:8, 41:9, 41:10, 41:11, 41:12, 41:13, 41:14, 41:15, 41:22, 42:2, 42:4, 42:7, 42:8, 43:13, 43:14, 43:15, 43:17, 45:2, 47:3
- Zechariah 5:2
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).