אַמָּה
ama · cubit
Aramaic word · Strong’s number H521 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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ama (אַמָּה) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “cubit”.
(Aramaic): a measure of length, from the elbow to the tip of the fingers, about half a meter. The same word as the Hebrew "amma".
How to say it
a·ma
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Measure of length, elbow to fingertip (Aramaic).
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Ezra 6:3
In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king gave an order: Concerning the house of Elah in Jerusalem, let the house be built, the place where they sacrifice sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid; its height, sixty cubits; its width, sixty cubits;
- Daniel 3:1
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, its height sixty cubits, its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
And 2 more times.