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In ancient Rome, according to Vitruvius, a cubit was equal to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 Roman feet or 6 palm widths (approximately 444 mm or 17 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). [23] A 120-centimetre cubit (approximately four feet long), called the Roman ulna, was common in the Roman empire, which cubit was measured from the fingers of the outstretched arm opposite the man's hip.
The closest thing to a formal area unit was the yoke (Hebrew: צמד tsemed) [22] (sometimes translated as acre), which referred to the amount of land that a pair of yoked oxen could plough in a single day; in Mesopotamia the standard estimate for this was 6,480 square cubits, which is roughly equal to a third of an acre.
2.3 Cubits. 2.4 Palms. 2.5 Inches. 2.6 Feet. 3 Loudness. 4 Mass. 5 Time. 6 Volume. 7 Miscellaneous. 8 See also. 9 References. Toggle the table of contents. List of ...
[6] The setat was the basic unit of land measure and may originally have varied in size across Egypt's nomes. [20] Later, it was equal to one square khet, where a khet measured 100 cubits. The setat could be divided into strips one khet long and ten cubit wide (a kha). [2] [6] [37] During the Old Kingdom:
William Smith (1851) gives a value of 0.9708 English feet, or about 295.9 mm. [2] An accepted modern value is 296 mm. [3] That foot is also called the pes monetalis to distinguish it from the pes Drusianus (about 333 or 335 mm) sometimes used in some provinces, particularly Germania Inferior.
References ^ Cf. Biblical Archaeology Review, March–April 1983, and Newsletter and Proceedings of the Society for Early Historic Archaeology, issue 159. Standard/Biblical cubit: 6 palms x 4 fingers = 24 units, Egyptian Royal cubit: 7 palms x 4 fingers = 28 units I tweaked the following with an excellent reference... The cubit is a traditional unit of length, based on the length of the ...
A "cubit" (Hebrew: ʼammah) is about 18 inches or 45 centimeters, [30] (in the ancient world usually varies from seventeen to eighteen inches), but there were longer and shorter cubits, as in Babylon and Egypt, measured 20.65 and 17.6 inches, respectively.
While both the Septuagint and Josephus' writings attributed only four cubits and a span (possibly about 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm) to Goliath's height, the Masoretic Text recorded Goliath's height as six cubits (possibly about 9 feet 6 inches (290 cm).