Sentences with cubit
cu·bit
C c - In ancient Egypt, a cubit was the distance from the elbow to the fingertips.
- The basic measuring instrument was the cubit rod, the cubit being the length of the pharaoh's arm from his elbow to the tip of his fingers.
- Between this pillar and the pillar of the true Trinity there was a gap three cubits wide in the wall.
- According to the Bible, the Ark was 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high.
- The temple extended 60 cubit beneath the earth and rose 120 cubits above the surface.
- The street twisted and turned to such a degree, he could not see more than twelve cubits in any direction.
- Summers mentions Indian sculpture that uses the palm as a module and Egyptian reliefs that use grids and cubits as their units.
- And from the deserts of India, too, came ancient reports of a serpent seventy cubits - that is, more than a hundred feet - long.
- After it had been quarried at Hatnub, I had it transported downstream in the barge that I had made for it, a barge of acacia wood of 60 cubits in length and 30 cubits in width.
- David leveled the Philistine Goliath, ‘whose height was six cubits and a span,’ with a stone.
- Tamil Brahman women wear a sari that is eighteen cubits long.