cubit
kind
archaic sense
modern equivalent
half a metre (about 45 cm)
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
An old unit of length, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. tree →
how it differs from today
No longer used; today we measure in metres and centimetres. Sentences give lengths in cubits.
examples
- Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. (Torah EXO.36.21, JPS 1917) tree →
- Other fishes there were only a cubit long which had heads like owls. (The Arabian Nights Entertainments) tree →
- Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board. (Torah EXO.26.16, JPS 1917) tree →
primary record
cubit
tests
rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 26 (Torah 20, tales 6, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.9 (Torah alone 46.7); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)
In the corpora
- Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
- Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
- And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cubit» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.