אַמָּה
am.mah
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 (De 3:11), the legal cubit or cubit of the sanctuary (Eze 40:5) plus others. See a Bible Dictionary for a complete treatment.
Aramaic equivalent: am.mah (אַמָּה "cubit" H0521)
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Concordance 132 verses
- Ezekiel 40:33 אַמָּ֔האַמָּֽה׃
Its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico had the same measurements as the others. Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:36 אַמָּ֔האַמָּֽה׃
as did its gate chambers, side pillars, and portico. It also had windows all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 40:42 אַמָּ֨האַמָּ֤האַמָּ֣ה
There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
- Ezekiel 40:47 אַמָּ֗האַמָּ֖ה
Next he measured the court. It was square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide. And the altar was in front of the temple.
- Ezekiel 40:48 אַמּוֹת֙אַמּ֖וֹתאַמּוֹת֙אַמּ֖וֹת
Then he brought me to the portico of the temple and measured the side pillars of the portico to be five cubits on each side. The width of the gateway was fourteen cubits and its sidewalls were three cubits on either side.
- Ezekiel 40:49 אַמָּ֗האַמָּ֔ה
The portico was twenty cubits wide and twelve cubits deep, and ten steps led up to it. There were columns by the side pillars, one on each side.
- Ezekiel 41:1 אַמּ֨וֹתאַמּֽוֹת־
Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.
- Ezekiel 41:2 אַמּוֹת֒אַמּוֹת֙אַמּ֖וֹתאַמָּ֔האַמָּֽה׃
The width of the entrance was ten cubits, and the sides of the entrance were five cubits on each side. He also measured the length of the outer sanctuary to be forty cubits, and the width to be twenty cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:3 אַמּ֑וֹתאַמּ֔וֹתאַמּֽוֹת׃
And he went into the inner sanctuary and measured the side pillars at the entrance to be two cubits wide. The entrance was six cubits wide, and the walls on each side were seven cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 41:4 אַמָּ֗האַמָּ֖ה
Then he measured the room adjacent to the inner sanctuary to be twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. And he said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place.”
- Ezekiel 41:5 אַמּ֑וֹתאַמּ֜וֹת
Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:8 אַמּ֖וֹת
I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:9 אַמּ֑וֹת
The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple
- Ezekiel 41:10 אַמָּ֛ה
and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:11 אַמּ֖וֹת
The side rooms opened into this area, with one entrance on the north and another on the south. The open area was five cubits wide all around.
- Ezekiel 41:12 אַמָּ֔האַמּ֥וֹתאַמָּֽה׃
Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:13 אַמָּ֑האַמָּֽה׃
Then he measured the temple to be a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
- Ezekiel 41:14 אַמָּֽה׃
The width of the temple courtyard on the east, including the front of the temple, was a hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 41:15 אַמָּ֑ה
Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner sanctuary, and the porticoes facing the court,
- Ezekiel 41:22 אַמּ֨וֹתאַמּ֗וֹת
There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”
- Ezekiel 42:2 אַמּ֣וֹתאַמּֽוֹת׃
The building with the door facing north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
- Ezekiel 42:4 אַמּ֥וֹתאַמָּ֣ה
In front of the chambers was an inner walkway ten cubits wide and a hundred cubits long. Their doors were on the north.
- Ezekiel 42:7 אַמָּֽה׃
An outer wall in front of the chambers was fifty cubits long and ran parallel to the chambers and the outer court.
- Ezekiel 42:8 אַמָּ֑האַמָּֽה׃
For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those facing the temple were a hundred cubits long.
- Ezekiel 42:16 אֵמוֹת
With a measuring rod he measured the east side to be five hundred cubits long.
- Ezekiel 43:13 בָּֽאַמּ֔וֹתאַמָּ֥האַמָּ֖ההָאַמָּ֜הוְאַמָּה־
These are the measurements of the altar in long cubits (a cubit and a handbreadth): Its gutter shall be a cubit deep and a cubit wide, with a rim of one span around its edge. And this is the height of the altar:
- Ezekiel 43:14 אַמּ֔וֹתאַמָּ֣האַמּ֔וֹתהָאַמָּֽה׃
The space from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide. The space from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits, and the ledge one cubit wide.
- Ezekiel 43:15 אַמּ֑וֹת
The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.
- Ezekiel 43:17 הָאַמָּ֗האַמָּה֙
The ledge shall also be square, fourteen cubits long and fourteen cubits wide, with a rim of half a cubit and a gutter of a cubit all around it. The steps of the altar shall face east.”
- Ezekiel 45:2 אַמָּ֔ה
Within this area there is to be a section for the sanctuary 500 cubits square, with 50 cubits around it for open land.
- Ezekiel 47:3 בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה
As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.
- Zechariah 5:2 בָּֽאַמָּ֔הבָּאַמָּֽה׃
“What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”