cubit

Converse of object

• add: Which of you by being anxious is going to add a single cubit to his life span?
• extend: Before the side-chambers of the Temple, on either side, were galleries in three stories, extending outward ten cubits north and south.
• use: The Biblically minded may use the cubit for medium-scale measurement, otherwise the use of the rod, pole or perch is recommended.
• stand: The right hand veil stood a million cubits high and the left one also.
• rise: It rose fifteen cubits above the highest mountain on earth.

Preposition: in

• height: Altogether they appear to have stood about eight cubits in height.
• breadth: For at nine years they were nine cubit in breadth and in height nine fathoms.
• circumference: It was thirty cubits in circumference, ten in diameter. five in height, a handbreadth in thickness.

Adjective modifier

• threescore: The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.
• Egyptian: But not one of these was the usual Egyptian cubit.
• twenty-five: The stones of which it was built were white and wonderfully great: some say twenty-five cubits by twelve cubits.
• ordinary: Rather than resorting to allegory he defended the literal meaning by arguing that Moses meant geometrical cubits - equal to 6 ordinary cubits.
• single: Which of you by being anxious is going to add a single cubit to his life span?

Modifies a noun

• arm: Crest 1 A cubit arm erect, habited Azure, cuffed Argent, the hand proper holding a sun Or.
• high: For if the seated figure were erect, then he would 3 2/3 royal cubits high which would be four of these cubits.
• foot: There is a specific amount of energy in a gallon of gasoline or a cubit foot of gas, et cetera.

Noun used with modifier

• twelve: Between each pair of its joints is a distance of twelve cubits.
• half: You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.
• dacha: And I answered, I varda a flying roll; the length thereof is dewey dacha cubits, and the breadth thereof dacha cubits.
• stature: And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?