# H520 אַמָּה

אַמָּה (ʼammâh), Strong’s H520: 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…

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*ʼammâh* — 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.

Derived from [אֵם ʼêm](https://besorah.bible/word/H517) (a mother)

Occurs 248 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 6:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=15) — This is how you shall make it. The length of the ship shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its…
- [Genesis 6:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/6?v=16) — 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…
- [Genesis 7:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/7?v=20) — The waters rose fifteen cubits higher, and the mountains were covered.
- [Exodus 25:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=10) — “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…
- [Exodus 25:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=17) — 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.
- [Exodus 25:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/25?v=23) — “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…
- [Exodus 26:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=2) — The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains…
- [Exodus 26:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=8) — The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall…
- [Exodus 26:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=13) — 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…
- [Exodus 26:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=16) — Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the width of each board.