Definition of Cubits

1. Noun. (plural of cubit), an ancient unit of measurement ¹

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Definition of Cubits

1. cubit [n] - See also: cubit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cubits

cubisms
cubist
cubistic
cubists
cubit
cubital
cubital bone
cubital fossa
cubital joint
cubital lymph nodes
cubital nerve
cubitals
cubiti
cubitiere
cubitieres
cubits (current term)
cubitus
cubitus valgus
cubitus varus
cubituses
cubless
cublike
cuboargyrite
cuboctahedra
cuboctahedral
cuboctahedric
cuboctahedron
cuboctahedrons
cuboctohedral
cuboid

Literary usage of Cubits

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"Thus the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle was a cube, ten cubits ... 15, et seq., the pillars were eighteen cubits high and twelve in circumferen«, ..."

2. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the (1854)
"23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward the north, and toward the east ; and he measured from gate to gate an hundred cubits. ..."

3. The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament by George V. Wigram (1866)
"15. the breadth of it fifty cubits, 17. a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. ... 9. and the breadth of one curtain 15.four cubits (was) the breadth ..."

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