Cubits Sentence Examples

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  • It was a distance of 2000 cubits.

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  • Between each pair of its joints is a distance of twelve cubits.

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  • From this root, which lay horizontally, smaller roots pushed down into the mud, and the stem of the plant sprang up to the height of 4 cubits, being triangular and tapering in form.

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  • Again, there are many theories of the equivalence of different cubic cubits of water with various multiples of talents (2, 3, 18, 24, 33); but connexion by lesser units would be far more probable, as the primary use of weights is not to weigh large cubical vessels of liquid, but rather small portions of precious metals.

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  • By taking all the ancient cubits, there appears to be a remarkable coincidence throughout with 20.6109 in.

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  • On three Egyptian cubits there is a prominent mark at the 19th digit or 14 in., which shows the existence of such a measure (33).

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  • Much has been written (2, 3, 33) on supposed cubits of about 17 to 18 in.

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  • On the Egyptian cubits a small cubit is marked as about 17 in., which may well be this unit, as (5/6)ths of 20.6 is 17.2; and, as these marks are placed before the 23rd digit or 17.0, they cannot refer to 6 palms, or 17.7, which is the 24th digit, though they are usually attributed to that (33).

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  • A length of 10 digits is marked on all the inscribed Egyptian cubits as the "lesser span" (33).

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  • For other Jewish cubits see 18.2 and 21.6.

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  • The Egyptian cubits have an arm at 15 digits or about 10.9 marked on them, which seems like this same unit (33).

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  • The Gemara names 3 Jewish cubits (2) of 5, 6 and 7 palms; and, as Oppert (24) shows that 25.2 was reckoned 7 palms, 21.6 being 5 palms, we may reasonably apply this scale to the Gemara list, and read it as 18, 21.6 and 25.2 in.

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  • There is great uncertainty as to the exact values of all ancient standards of volume -- the only precise data being those resulting from the theories of volumes derived from the cubes of feet and cubits.

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  • He laid out a fine park or Paradise, for pleasure and the chase, to the east of his palaces, and built up a magnificent "triumphal way" sixty-two cubits broad and forbade any householder to encroach upon the street.

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  • In his translations of Euripides' Cyclops, 381, "a bowl I Three cubits wide and four in depth, as much i As would contain four amphorae" the Greek original clearly points to "ten amphorae" and four may have come from the previous line.

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  • After it is strapped on, the man must walk four cubits in the presence of the court.

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  • It is a square well with an octagonal pillar marked in cubits in the centre.

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  • This altar was in the centre of the court of the tabernacle, of acacia wood, 3 cubits high and 5 square.

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  • Four thousand cubits to the east the great rampart was built "mountain high," which surrounded both the old and the new town; it was provided with a moat, and a reservoir was excavated in the triangle on the inner side of its south-east corner, the western wall of which is still visible.

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  • The Babil mound probably represents the site of a palace built by Nebuchadrezzar at the northern extremity of the city walls and attached to a defensive outwork 60 cubits in length.

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  • Before the side-chambers of the Temple, on either side, were galleries in three stories, extending outward ten cubits north and south.

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  • The right hand veil stood a million cubits high and the left one also.

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  • It rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountain on earth.

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  • For if the seated figure were erect, then he would 3 2/3 royal cubits high which would be four of these cubits high which would be four of these cubits.

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  • You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

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  • And I answered, I varda a flying roll; the length thereof is dewey dacha cubits, and the breadth thereof dacha cubits.

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  • And I answered, I varda a flying roll; the length thereof is dewey dacha cubits, and the breadth thereof dacha cubits, and the breadth thereof dacha cubits.

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  • Apart from medieval and other very uncertain data, such as the Sabbath day's journey being 2000 middling paces for 2000 cubits, it appears that Josephus, using the Greek or Roman cubit, gives half as many more to each dimension of the temple than does the Talmud; this shows the cubit used in the Talmud for temple measures to be certainly not under 25 in.

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  • The first accurate description of the plant is given by Theophrastus, from whom we learn that it grew in shallows of 2 cubits (about 3 ft.) or less, its main root being of the thickness of a man's wrist and 10 cubits in length.

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  • Io), and the (late) description of its appearance represents it as an oblong box 22 cubits long, IZ cubits in breadth and height (roughly 1.2 by.

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  • For instance, Lepsius (3) supposed two primitive cubits of 13.2 and 20.63, to account for 28 digits being only 20.4 when free from the cubit of 20.63--the first 24 digits being in some cases made shorter on the cubits to agree with the true digit standard, while the remaining 4 are lengthened to fill up to 20.6.

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  • The normal rise of the Nile was sixteen cubits at the island of Roda, and two cubits more or less caused a failure of the harvest.

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  • The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

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  • From the Valley Gate the wall took an easterly course for a distance of woo cubits to the Dung Gate, near which on the east was the Fountain Gate, not far from the lower pool of Siloam.

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  • Its dimensions are given as 300 cubits long, 50 cubits broad and 30 cubits high (cubit =18-22 in.).

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  • From this cubit, mahi, was formed the xylon of 3 cubits, the usual length of a walking staff; fathom, nent, of 4 cubits, and the khet of 40 cubits (18); also the schoenus of 12,000 cubits, actually found marked on the Memphis-Faium road (44).

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  • Rather than resorting to allegory he defended the literal meaning by arguing that Moses meant geometrical cubits - equal to 6 ordinary cubits.

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