Lexicon péchus: the forearm, i.e. a cubit Original Word: πῆχυς, εως, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: péchus Phonetic Spelling: (pay'-khoos) Short Definition: a cubit Definition: a cubit, about a foot and a half. HELPS word-Studies 4083 pḗxys – "traditionally the distance from the elbow to the end of the fingers, about eighteen inches or one-half meter – 'cubit, eighteen inches, half meter' " (L & N, 1, 81.25). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. word Definitionthe forearm, i.e. a cubit NASB Translationhour (2), yards (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4083: πῆχυςπῆχυς, genitive πηχεως (not found in the N. T.), genitive plural πηχῶν contracted from Ionic πήχεων ( John 21:8; Revelation 21:17; 1 Kings 7:3 (15), 39 (2); Esther 7:9; Ezekiel 40:5) according to later usage, for the earlier and Attic πήχεων, which is common in the Sept. (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 245f; ( WHs Appendix, p. 157); Winer's Grammar, § 9, 2 e.), ὁ, the forearm i. e. that part of the arm between the hand and the elbow-joint ( Homer, Odyssey 17, 38; Iliad 21, 166, etc.); hence, a cubit (ell, Latin ulna), a measure of length equal to the distance from the joint of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger (i. e. about one foot and a half, but its precise length varied and is disputed; see B. D., under the phrase, Weights and Measures, II. 1): Matthew 6:27; Luke 12:25 (on these passages, cf. ἡλικία, 1 a.); John 21:8; Revelation 21:17. (The Sept. very often for אַמָּה.)
Strong's cubit. Of uncertain affinity; the fore-arm, i.e. (as a measure) a cubit -- cubit. |
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