אַמָּה
am.mahcubitHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine248 occurrences16 books132 verses
Definition
prolonged from H517; 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)
Traditional renderings: cubit, + hundred (by exchange for H3967), measure, post.
Traditional renderings: cubit, + hundred (by exchange for H3967), measure, post.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אַמָּה:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
248 total
- Exodus 37:25אַמָּ֣ה · a cubit; וְאַמָּ֨ה · a cubit; וְאַמָּתַ֙יִם֙ · and two cubitsHe 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 38:1אַמּ֨וֹת · cubits; אַמּ֤וֹת · cubits; אַמּ֖וֹת · cubitsBezalel constructed the altar of burnt offering from acacia wood. It was square, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high.
- Exodus 38:9בָּאַמָּֽה׃ · cubits [long]Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
- Exodus 38:11בָֽאַמָּ֔ה · cubits [long]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 38:12בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · cubits longThe 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 38:13אַמָּֽה׃ · cubits [long]And the east side, toward the sunrise, was also fifty cubits long.
- Exodus 38:14אַמָּ֖ה · cubits [long]The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
- Exodus 38:15אַמָּ֑ה · cubits longAnd the curtains on the other side were also fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases as well.
- Exodus 38:18אַמָּה֙ · cubits; אַמּ֔וֹת · cubitsThe 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 11:31וּכְאַמָּתַ֖יִם · about two cubitsNow 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 35:4אַמָּ֖ה · cubitsThe pasturelands around the cities you are to give the Levites will extend a thousand cubits from the wall on every side.
- Numbers 35:5בָּֽאַמָּ֟ה · cubits; בָּאַמָּ֜ה; בָּֽאַמָּ֗ה; בָּאַמָּ֖הYou 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 3:11אַמּ֣וֹת · cubits; אַמּ֛וֹת · cubits; בְּאַמַּת־(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 3:4אַמָּ֖ה · cubitsBut 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 17:4אַמּ֖וֹת · cubitsThen 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 6:2אַמָּ֥ה · cubits; אַמָּ֖ה · cubitsThe house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:3אַמָּה֙ · cubits; בָּאַמָּ֛ה · cubitsThe 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 6:6בָּאַמָּ֣ה · cubits; בָּֽאַמָּה֙ · cubits; בָּאַמָּ֖ה · cubitsThe 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 6:10אַמּ֖וֹת · cubitsHe built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:16אַמָּ֜ה · cubitsHe 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 6:17בָּאַמָּ֖ה · cubits [long]And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
- 1 Kings 6:20אַמָּ֨ה · cubits; אַמָּ֣ה · cubits; אַמָּה֙ · cubitsThe 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 6:23אַמּ֖וֹת · cubitsIn the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.
- 1 Kings 6:24אַמּ֗וֹת · cubits long; אַמּ֔וֹת · cubits long [as well]; אַמּ֔וֹת · cubitsOne 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 6:25בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה · cubitsThe second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,
- 1 Kings 6:26בָּֽאַמָּ֑ה · cubits…and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:2אַמָּ֤ה · cubits; אַמָּה֙ · cubits; אַמָּ֖ה · cubitsHe 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 7:6אַמָּה֙ · cubits; אַמָּ֖ה · cubitsSolomon 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 7:10אַמּ֔וֹת · cubits [long]The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.