{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H520",
  "lemma": "אַמָּה",
  "transliteration": "ʼammâh",
  "definition": "properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)",
  "kjv": "cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.",
  "occurrences": 248,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H517",
      "lemma": "אֵם",
      "transliteration": "ʼêm",
      "meaning": "a mother",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H517"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[אַמָּה] n.f. (etym. & mng. dub.; Thes foundation) only Is 6:4.",
    "אַמָּה n.f",
    "אַמָּה 246 n.f. ell, cubit",
    "1. cubit",
    "2. † measure, full measure, limit"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:15",
      "text": "This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 6:16",
      "text": "You shall make a roof in the ship, and you shall finish it to a cubit upward. You shall set the door of the ship in its…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 7:20",
      "text": "The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:10",
      "text": "“They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its width a cubit and a half, and a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:17",
      "text": "You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 25:23",
      "text": "“You shall make a table of acacia wood. Its length shall be two cubits, and its width a cubit, and its height one and a…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:2",
      "text": "The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:8",
      "text": "The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:13",
      "text": "The cubit on the one side and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 26:16",
      "text": "Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=16"
    }
  ],
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