Examples of using Cubit in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Uh, one cubit is half a yard.
Looks like our friend Fisk hit the jackpot. Cubit?
A cubit, that's a distance or something, right?
Which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his height?
Its length was two and a half cubits, and its width a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
Which of you, worrying,is able to add to his stature one cubit?
The foot is a sixth of the height of the body; the cubit a quarter, the breast also a quarter.
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
The internal length of the Mishkan is at least thirty cubits,since there are twenty boards each a cubit and a half wide.
Mat 6:27 And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?
The division of each tablet into 150 letter-units of 1/10 cubit led him to superimpose the prolonged hexagram on the slabs.
LK 12:25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
In the Bible, a cubit was set as the length extending from one's elbow to the tip of his finger, about 45 cm(1.5 feet) in today's measurement.
Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.
Luke 12:25 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?
There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
Mat 6: 27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Matt 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
Luke 12:25 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?
Since this is more than all the gold used in the Tabernacle(29.5 talents),clearly a cubit must be less than 48 centimeters long.