length · Mesopotamia / Levant · Antiquity

Biblical ordinary cubit (reference reconstruction)

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Variant of cubit (biblical)

Record: M515
Definition quality: Historically reconstructed
Conversion mode: multiplicative
Calculator: Approximately calculable

Definition

One Biblical ordinary cubit (reference reconstruction) is understood to be about 0.4445 metres.

Reference value

One Biblical ordinary cubit (reference reconstruction) is understood to be about 0.4445 metres.

Modern use

Retained primarily for historical, educational, or reference use rather than as a current standardized calculator unit.

Did you know?

A cubit sounds anatomical because it was: the basic idea is the forearm from elbow to fingertip. The problem for a modern converter is that ancient cubit standards were not all the same length.

Sources & evidence

Source tier Tier B/C — recorded secondary/reference source · confidence Moderate

Trivia — https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/489757

Related measurements

metre

length · International · Modern

SI base unit of length. Its definition fixes the speed of light in vacuum at exactly 299,792,458 m/s, with the second defined from the caesium-133 hyperfine frequency.