 | John George Schmucker - 1821 - 448 σελίδες
...angel appeared to John in a hinnan form, but of an astonishing gigantick size, so that his cubit, ie the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger, was equal to the above 83? stadia, and the proportion of his whole body accordingly. According to this... | |
 | 1843 - 684 σελίδες
...ancient nations. The Hebrews called it mother, as being the mother or first of measures. Its length was the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger, which was about the fourth part of a well-proportioned man's stature. The Hebrew cubit ordinarily employed... | |
 | Augustin Calmet - 1832 - 1060 σελίδες
...resemblance to this substance. CUBIT, a measure used among the ancients, and which the Hebrews call ammah. A cubit was originally the distance from the elbow...fourth part of a well-proportioned man's stature. The Hebrew cubit, according to bishop Cumberland, and M. Pelletier, is twenty-one inches; but others... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1094 σελίδες
...The Hebrews call it ЛСМ, the mother of other measures : in Greek, wix1". A cubit originally was the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger : this is the fourth part of a well-proportioned man's stature. The common cubit is eighteen inches.... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1833 - 384 σελίδες
...glass-like e;em, from its resemblance to this substance. CUBIT, a measure used among the ancients. A cubit was originally the distance from the elbow...fourth part of a well-proportioned man's stature. The Hebrew cubit, according to some, is twenty-one inches ; but others fix it at eighteen. The Talmudists... | |
 | John Walker, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1836 - 820 σελίδες
...CUBlT=cïi' bït, ». The fore-arm ; the bono of the aim from the elbow t.> the wrist ; a measure, originally the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle linger: the Romau cubit was nearly »evrntfrn inches and a half; the Hebrew cubit, a little less than... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1837 - 372 σελίδες
...the little finger; novs, a. foot. The Herculean or Olympic foot was longer. The jiij^uj, a cubit, was the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. 'Ogyvm, a fathom, was the distance across the breast, between the extremities of the hands, the arms... | |
 | John Potter - 1840 - 864 σελίδες
...its first phalanx was sri/y»»=20 S«xri/X«, and that <rti^in=24 'S/ixTii).!.. was the cubit, or the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. The xnxui then contained 1£ rain. The fijfas was 2' vrSttt, and thus corresponded to the pes sestertius... | |
 | James Covel (jr.) - 1843 - 548 σελίδες
...glass, from its resemblance to ice. CU'BIT, a measure used among the ancients. A cubit originally was the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger: this is the fourth part of a well proportioned man's stature. The common cubit is eighteen inches.... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1848 - 978 σελίδες
...not admit strangers. CUBIT. A MEASURE used among the ancients, and which the Hebrews call iimma — the mother of other measures. A cubit was originally...fourth part of a well-proportioned man's stature. The Hebrew cubit, according to Bishop Cumberland, and M. Pelletier, is twenty-one inches ; but others... | |
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A cubit was originally the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger ; which is the fourth part of a wellproportioned man's stature. 
