cubit in English

noun
1
an ancient measure of length, approximately equal to the length of a forearm. It was typically about 18 inches or 44 cm, though there was a long cubit of about 21 inches or 52 cm.
Tamil Brahman women wear a sari that is eighteen cubits long.

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1. Long cubit (7 handbreadths)

2. Cubit (2 spans / 6 handbreadths)

3. The Hebrew text reads: “A way of one cubit.”

4. 23 “You will also make a table+ of acacia wood, two cubits long and a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high.

5. 10 “They are to make an ark* of acacia wood, two and a half cubits* long and a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high.

6. 2: Enter the value you want to convert (Cubitus (cubit))

7. This is a conversion chart for Cubitus (cubit) (Ancient Roman)

8. Who of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?

9. It is nine cubits* long and four cubits wide, by the standard cubit.

10. Bloc also extends BlocBase which means it has a similar public API as Cubit

11. 27 Who of you by being anxious can add one cubit* to his life span?

12. The measurement according to celestial time, which celestial time signifies one day to a cubit.

13. “Who of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?”

14. + 25 Who of you by being anxious can add a cubit* to his life span?

15. + 16 Each panel frame is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.

16. It covers the Bloc package (version 6.0.3) in all flavors: Bloc, flutter_Bloc hydrated_Bloc, replay_Bloc, Bloc_test and cubit

17. 12 The partitioned area in front of the guard chambers on either side was one cubit.

18. + 3 And there were ornamental gourds+ under it, completely encircling it, ten to a cubit all around the Sea.

19. The Amah (אמה, sometimes rendered as cubit or ell) was a unit of length or distance in the Ancient Hebrew measurement system

20. 17 “You will make a cover of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

21. It is said that at the end of this period, humans will be no more than one cubit in height, and twenty years in age.

22. Alternative Titles: covid, Cubitus, kus Cubit, unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 bc; it …

23. The Cubitus (usually rendered cubit in translation; this name is often used to render similar-sized units in other cultures as well) was an ancient Roman unit of length or distance

24. The International Herald Tribune reports that in France, one of the world’s most nuclear-reliant countries, up to 670 billion cubic feet [19 billion cubit meters] of water is required annually to cool reactors.

25. For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his Bedstead was a Bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.

26. The width may be figured as follows: The rear or W wall was constructed of six panel frames of one and one half cubits each (totaling 9 cubits) and two panel frames called corner posts, which evidently were positioned so that each added one half cubit to the inside dimension.

27. Cubital relates to the cubit or ulna and may refer to: Cubital fossa, the triangular area on the anterior view of the elbow joint of the arm Cubital index, the ratio of two of the wing vein segments of honeybees Cubital tunnel, channel which allows the Ulnar nerve (commonly known as the "funny bone") to travel over the elbow