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The biblical ell is closely related to the cubit, but two different factors are given in the Bible; Ezekiel's measurements imply that the ell was equal to 1 cubit plus 1 palm (Tefah), [6] [7] while elsewhere in the Bible, the ell is equated with 1 cubit exactly.
Historic standard units of the city of Regensburg: from left to right, a fathom (Klafter), foot (Schuch) and ell (Öln). Prussian ell. An ell (from Proto-Germanic *alinō, cognate with Latin ulna) [1] is a northwestern European unit of measurement, originally understood as a cubit (the combined length of the forearm and extended hand).
The cubit is an ancient unit of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. [1] It was primarily associated with the Sumerians , Egyptians , and Israelites . The term cubit is found in the Bible regarding Noah's Ark , the Ark of the Covenant , the Tabernacle , and Solomon's Temple .
Third, "Bible" and "Talmud" are not the names of a culture, which is what all of our other units of measurement pages are dabbed by. This needs to be moved to Hebrew units of measurement, Ancient Hebrew units of measurement, or (at minimum) the terser Biblical units of measurement. Any modern Talmudic or Jewish use derives from that and is ...
I agree. I am slowly working through various measurement article cataloguing the various sizes of the unit in question in various European countries (see Foot (unit) and Stone (imperial mass) for typical tables) - the ell needs quite a bit of research before I can do much. Martinvl 21:10, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric.
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Biblical mile (Hebrew: מיל, romanized: mīl) is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to ascertain distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or what was about four furlongs (four stadia). [1]