 | Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje - Aceh (Indonesia) - 1906 - 482 pages
...level with the gravedigger's breast. The length and breadth are supposed to be four hdih (ell or cubit, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger) 2), but in fact it is more spacious than this, as otherwise it would be difficult for the men standing... | |
 | Xenophon - 1906 - 522 pages
...palus, marsh), mud, mire, i. 5. 7, 8, ii. 3. 11. iH)X"S, ems, o, forearm, as a measure of length, cubit, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The irîix«s was one and one-half Greek feet, or almost one foot five and one-half inches in English... | |
 | Xenophon, Charles Forster Smith - 1907 - 522 pages
...marsh), mud, mire, i. 5. 7, 8, ii. 3. 11. Trfjxus, tas, i, forearm, as a measure of length, cubit, the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. The vrixvs was one and one-half Greek feet, or almost one foot five and one-half inches in English... | |
 | George Soulé - Business mathematics - 1910 - 1042 pages
...finger when extended ; the digit or the finger, — the length of the first finger; the cubit, — the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; the fathom, — the distance from the tips of the middle fingers of the two hands when extended in... | |
 | Harry Ignatius Marshall - Burma - 1922 - 360 pages
...t'so; the interval between the end of the thumb and the end of the middle finger, t' hta; the cubit or the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, t' pla, and the reach of the outstretched arm, t' hkli. Inasmuch as 52 Two SOAW KAREN MAIDENS One from... | |
 | Harry Ignatius Marshall - Burma - 1922 - 360 pages
...t'so; the interval between the end of the thumb and the end of the middle finger, t' hta; the cubit or the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, t' pla, and the reach of the outstretched arm, t' hkli. Inasmuch as Two SOAW KAREN MAIDENS One from... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce - Commerce - 1946 - 302 pages
...capable of exact duplication without comparison. The "cubit" for example, of Biblical note. represented the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger! Whose elbow was not specified. The Tools of Precision The science of lineal measurement has two aspects... | |
 | Robert E. Lewis - Foreign Language Study - 1961 - 132 pages
...cobite, cupide, kebet, kibite. Pi. cübite(s. [OE cubit & L cubitum.] l. (a) A measure of length [orig. , the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger]; usu. , eighteen inches; ?also,a pace; (b) with uninflected pi. ; (c) commune ~, eighteen inches; ~... | |
 | Gnana Robinson - Religion - 1993 - 308 pages
...Bethlehem. It was waterless during summer and was therefore suitable as a field of batde. A cubit is the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, and a span is the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the litde finger when the fingers... | |
 | Plinio Prioreschi - Medical - 1996 - 569 pages
...into use at the time of the Sargonids.55 The units of measure used by the Babylonians were: the cubit (the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger) for length, the qa (about 85 ml.) for volume, and the mina (about 500 g.) for weight. The surface unit... | |
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For a person of average height, it is equal to about the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, plus a hand's-breadth, the former distance being the natural cubit (for a person of such height). 
