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Lexicon :: Strong's H520 - 'ammâ

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אַמָּה
Transliteration
'ammâ
Pronunciation
am-maw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Prolonged from אֵם (H517)
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TWOT Reference: 115c

Strong’s Definitions

אַמָּה ʼammâh, am-maw'; 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):—cubit, + hundred (by exchange for H3967), measure, post.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 245x

The KJV translates Strong's H520 in the following manner: cubit (242x), measure (1x), post (1x), not translated (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 245x
The KJV translates Strong's H520 in the following manner: cubit (242x), measure (1x), post (1x), not translated (1x).

  1. cubit - a measure of distance (the forearm), roughly 18 in (.5m). There are several cubits used in the OT, the cubit of a man or common cubit (Dt 3.11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Eze 40.5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment.

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַמָּה ʼammâh, am-maw'; 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):—cubit, + hundred (by exchange for H3967), measure, post.
STRONGS H520: Abbreviations
II. אַמָּה 246 noun feminine ell, cubit (SI אמה; so Sabean DHMZMG 1865, 613; Aramaic axmAf  , אַמָּא; Assyrian ammatu Nor280; Ethiopic እመት፡ etymology dubious; Thes and others mater brachii, i.e. length of fore-arm; others derive from √ אמם, أَمَّ precede, be in front, & hence fore-arm compare Di Isaiah 6:4; DlPr 109 MV derive immediately from √אמם be wide (see above), אַמָּה = distance, & hence a particular distance, ell, cubit) — א׳ absolute Genesis 6:15 +; construct אַמַּת Deuteronomy 3:11; Jeremiah 51:13; dual אַמָּתַיִם Exodus 25:10 +; plural אַמּוֺת Exodus 26:16 +; —
1. cubit, so אַמַּת־אִישׁ i.e. ordinary cubit, Deuteronomy 3:11 (compare Isaiah 8:1); in Ezekiel 40:5; Ezekiel 43:13 is a cubit one hand-breadth longer, compare 2 Chronicles 3:3 בַּמִּחָה הָרִאשׁוֺנָה א׳; absolute length dubious, compare SmithDict. Bib., article Weights and Measures; LepsiusLängenmaasse der Alten, SBAk 1883, 1195 f. identification with Egyptian, longer cubit. 525m., shorter.450m.; see also Id.Babylonian-Assyr. Längenmaasse 1877; MBAk 1877, 741 OppertGGA 1878, 1055; Rev. d'Assyr. i. 124 (also on the Babylonian 'half-cubit' =.270 m. HptAJPh 1888, 419 HomSemiten i. 501); on אַצִּילָה א׳ Ezekiel 41:8 compare Sm & Co (Co strike out); חֲמֵשׁ אמות קָנִים Ezekiel 42:16 Kt, read מֵאוֺת so Qr Co; chiefly in Exodus 25-27. 36-38 (56 times) 1 Kings 6, 7 (45 times) 2 Chronicles 3 & 2 Chronicles 4 (21 times) Ezekiel 40-43 (86 times); a (one) cubit = אַמָּה Genesis 6:16; Exodus 25:10, 23 +; הָאַמָּה Ezekiel 43:14; אַחַת א׳ Ezekiel 40:12 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 40:42 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 42:4; Ezekiel 43:14; two cubits = אַמָּתַיִם Exodus 25:10, 17, 23; Exodus 30:2; Exodus 37:1, 6, 10, 25; Numbers 11:31; שְׁתַּיִם אַמּוֺת Ezekiel 40:9; Ezekiel 41:3, 22; Ezekiel 43:14; with Numbers 1-10 א׳ mostly follows number in plural Exodus 26:16; Exodus 27:1 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 6:10; Ezekiel 40:5, 7, 9 +; with numbers 11-1000 +, it mostly following number in singular Genesis 6:15 (3 times in verse); Exodus 27:12, 13; Exodus 38:13, 14, 15; Numbers 35:4; Joshua 3:4; 1 Kings 6:2 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 6:3; 1 Kings 7:15 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 52:21, 22; Ezekiel 40:49 (twice in verse) +; seldom following, in plural Ezekiel 40:11 (strike out Co) Ezekiel 40:27 (Co singular) Ezekiel 42:2; so also עֶשְׂרִים וְחָמֵשׁ אַמּוֺת Ezekiel 40:13, 29 but חָמֵשׁ וְעֶשְׂרִים אַמָּה Ezekiel 40:25, 30, 33, 36; (late) also in plural precedes all Numbers 2 Chronicles 3:3 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 3:4, 8 (twice in verse) +; 2 Chronicles 6:13; Ezekiel 42:2; also often בָּאַמָּה following all numbers Exodus 26:2 (twice in verse); Exodus 26:8 (twice in verse); Exodus 27:9, 18; Exodus 36:9 (twice in verse); Exodus 36:15 (twice in verse); Exodus 36:21; Numbers 35:5 (4 times in verse); 1 Kings 6:6 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 7:23 (3 times in verse); 2 Chronicles 4:2 (3 times in verse); Ezekiel 40:21; Ezekiel 47:3; Zechariah 5:2 (twice in verse) +, compare לְאַמּוֺת חָמֵשׁ 2 Chronicles 3:11; often וַחֲצִי א׳ Exodus 25:10 (3 times in verse); Exodus 25:17 (twice in verse) +, also וַחֲצִי הָא׳ א׳ Exodus 26:16; Exodus 36:21; 1 Kings 17:31; 1 Kings 17:32; 1 Kings 17:35 etc.; compare שֵׁשׁ אַמּוֺת וָזָרֶ֑ת 1 Samuel 17:4; followed by בַּמִּדָּה in measurement Joshua 3:4; 2 Chronicles 3:3.
2. † measure, full measure, limit, only אַמַּת בִּצְעֵךְ the measure of thy gain-making Jeremiah 51:13 (|| קִצֵּךְ).

† III. [אַמָּה] noun feminine (etymology & meaning dubious; Thes foundation (compare Talmud AW), from אֵם in metaphorical sense, compare MV; De on Isaiah 6:4 derived similarly, but makes support of superliminaria (compare Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Vulgate); Ew Di derived from √ אמם = أَمَّ precede, whence إِمَامً front; DlPr 110 translates holder from √ אמם be wide, hence contain, hold) only הַסִּפִּים אַמּוֺת Isaiah 6:4.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H521.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

6:15; 6:15; 6:16

Exodus

25; 25; 25:10; 25:10; 25:10; 25:10; 25:17; 25:17; 25:23; 25:23; 26; 26:2; 26:8; 26:16; 26:16; 26:16; 27; 27:1; 27:9; 27:12; 27:13; 27:18; 30:2; 36:9; 36:15; 36:21; 36:21; 37:1; 37:6; 37:10; 37:25; 38:13; 38:14; 38:15

Numbers

1; 2; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11:31; 35:4; 35:5

Deuteronomy

3:11; 3:11

Joshua

3:4; 3:4

1 Samuel

17:4

1 Kings

6; 6:2; 6:3; 6:6; 6:7; 6:10; 7:15; 7:23

2 Chronicles

3; 3:3; 3:3; 3:4; 3:8; 3:11; 4; 4:2; 6:13

Isaiah

6:4; 6:4; 6:4; 8:1

Jeremiah

51:13; 51:13; 52:21; 52:22

Ezekiel

40; 40:5; 40:5; 40:7; 40:9; 40:9; 40:11; 40:12; 40:13; 40:21; 40:25; 40:27; 40:29; 40:30; 40:33; 40:36; 40:42; 40:49; 41; 41:3; 41:8; 41:22; 42; 42:2; 42:2; 42:4; 42:16; 43; 43:13; 43:14; 43:14; 43:14; 47:3

Zechariah

5:2

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Strong's Number H520 matches the Hebrew אַמָּה ('ammâ),
which occurs 249 times in 132 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 3 (Eze 40:33–Zec 5:2)

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:33

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:33 - Its guardrooms also, its side pillars, and its porches were according to those same measurements. And [fn]the gate and its porches had windows all around; it was fifty cubits H520 long and twenty-five cubits H520 wide.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:36 - with its guardrooms, its side pillars, and its porches. And [fn]the gate had windows all around; the length was fifty cubits H520 and the width twenty-five cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:42

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:42 - For the burnt offering there were four tables of cut stone, a cubit H520 and a half long, a cubit H520 and a half wide, and one cubit H520 high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:47

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:47 - He measured the court, a perfect square, one hundred cubits H520 long and one hundred cubits H520 wide; and the altar was in front of the house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:48

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:48 -

Then he brought me to the porch of the house and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits H520 on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits H520 on each side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 40:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 40:49 - The length of the porch was twenty cubits H520 and the width eleven cubits H520; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:1 -

Then he brought me to the [fn]nave and measured the side pillars; [fn]six cubits H520 wide on each side was the width of the [fn]side pillar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:2 - The width of the entrance was ten cubits H520, and the [fn]sides of the entrance were five cubits H520 on each side. And he measured [fn]the length of the nave, [fn]forty cubits H520, and the width, twenty cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:3 - Then he went [fn]inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits H520, and the doorway, six cubits H520 high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:4 - He measured its length, twenty cubits H520, and the width, twenty cubits H520, before the nave; and he said to me, “This is the Holy of Holies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:5 -

Then he measured the wall of the house of Yahweh, six cubits H520; and the width of the side chambers, four cubits H520, all around about the house on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:8 - I saw also that the house had a raised [fn]platform all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full rod of [fn]six [fn]long cubits H520 in height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:9 - The [fn]thickness of the outer wall of the side chambers was five cubits H520. But the free space between the side chambers belonging to the house

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:10 - and the outer chambers was twenty cubits H520 in width all around the house on every side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:11 - The [fn]doorways of the [fn]side chambers toward the free space consisted of one doorway toward the north and another doorway toward the south; and the width of the place of the free space was five cubits H520 all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:12 -

The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was [fn]seventy cubits H520 wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits H520 [fn]thick all around, and its length was [fn]ninety cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:13 -

Then he measured the house, [fn]one hundred cubits H520 long; the separate area with the building and its walls were also one hundred cubits H520 long.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:14 - Also the width of the front of the house and that of the separate [fn]areas along the east side totaled one hundred cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:15 -

He measured the length of the building [fn]along the front of the separate area behind it, with a [fn]gallery on each side, one hundred cubits H520, along with the inner nave and the porches of the court.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 41:22 - The altar was of wood, three cubits H520 high and its length two cubits H520; its corners, its [fn]base, and its [fn]sides were of wood. And he said to me, “This is the table that is before Yahweh.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:2 - Along the length, which was [fn]one hundred cubits H520, was the north door; the width was fifty cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:4 - Before the chambers was an inner walk ten cubits H520 wide, a way of [fn]one hundred cubits H520; and their openings were on the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:7 - As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, its length was fifty cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:8 - For the length of the chambers which were in the outer court was fifty cubits H520; and behold, the length of those facing the temple was one hundred cubits H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 42:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 42:16 - He measured on the east [fn]side with the measuring reed 500 reeds by the measuring reed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:13 -

“And these are the measurements of the altar by cubits H520 (the cubit H520 being a [fn]cubit H520 and a [fn]handbreadth): the [fn]base shall be a cubit H520 and the width a cubit H520, and its border on its edge round about one [fn]span; and this shall be the height of the [fn]base of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:14 - “And from the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two [fn]cubits H520 and the width one cubit H520; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits H520 and the width [fn]one cubit H520.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:15 - “And the [fn]altar hearth shall be four cubits H520; and from the [fn]altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 43:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 43:17 - “The ledge shall be [fn]fourteen cubits long by fourteen wide in its four sides; the border around it shall be half a cubit H520, and its base shall be a cubit H520 round about; and its steps shall [fn]face the east.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 45:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 45:2 - “Out of this there shall be for the holy place a square round about [fn]five hundred by five hundred cubits, and [fn]fifty cubits H520 for its [fn]open space round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 47:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 47:3 -

When the man went out toward the east with a line in his hand, he measured [fn]one thousand cubits H520, and he had me pass through the water, water reaching the ankles.

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Unchecked Copy Box Zec 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 5:2 - And he said to me, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see a flying scroll; its length is [fn]twenty cubits H520 and its width ten cubits H520.”

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