Which ancient measurement mentioned in the Bible was approximately 18 inches?
"attested in Ptolemy's 2nd-century works. Ancient Egyptian units of measurement The ancient Egyptian units of measurement are those used by the dynasties of ancient Egypt prior to its incorporation in the Roman Empire and general adoption of Roman, Greek, and Byzantine units of measurement. The units of length seem to have originally been anthropic, based on various parts of the human body, although these were standardized using cubit rods, strands of rope, and official measures maintained at some temples. Following Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia and subsequent death, his bodyguard and successor Ptolemy assumed control in Egypt, partially reforming"
"records and the Hebrew Bible indicate that length was first measured with the forearm, hand, or finger and that time was measured by the periods of the sun, moon, and other heavenly bodies. When it was necessary to compare the capacities of containers such as gourds or clay or metal vessels, they were filled with plant seeds which were then counted to measure the volumes. When means for weighing were invented, seeds and stones served as standards. For instance, the carat, still used as a unit for gems, was derived from the carob seed. The Egyptian cubit, the Indus Valley"
"standard Biblical ell would have been 49.5 or 52.5 cm (19.49 or 20.67 in), but are fairly certain that it was one of these two figures. From these figures for the size of a Biblical ell, that of the basic unit — the finger-breadth (""Etzba"") — can be calculated to be either 2.1 or 2.2 cm (0.83 or 0.87 in); Rav Avraham Chaim Naeh approximates at 2 cm (0.79 in); Talmudic scholar Chazon Ish at 2.38 cm (0.94 in). The ""mile"" (""Mil"") is thus about 963 or 1146 meters (3160 or 3760 ft) — approximately six or seven tenths of"
"Biblical mile Biblical mile () is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to tell short distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or what was about four furlongs (""stadia""). The basic Jewish traditional unit of distance was the cubit (), each cubit being roughly between The standard measurement of the biblical mile, or what is sometimes called ""tǝḥūm šabbat"" (Sabbath limit; Sabbath boundary), was 2,000 cubits. The word ""mīl"", as used in Hebrew texts between the 2nd and"
"diagonally. Nearly two-thousand years of Jewish exile from the Land of Israel have given rise to disputes over the precise length of the biblical mile observed by the ancients. Some hold the biblical mile to be 1 km 152 m, while others hold it to be 960 m, depending on the length they prescribe to each cubit. Originally, the 2,000 cubit Sabbath limit was measured with a standard 50-cubit rope. Biblical mile Biblical mile () is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to tell short distances between cities and"
"biblical giants. The 1st-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, and the 1st-2nd-century BC Dead Sea Scrolls give Goliath's height as ""four cubits and a span,"" approximately 2.00 m or about six feet seven inches. The King James translation of the Bible reports the giant Goliath as ""six cubits and a span"" in height—about nine feet nine inches tall, (over 2.75 m) ( KJV), but the Septuagint, a Greek Bible, gives Goliath's height as ""four cubits and a span"" (~2.00 m). For comparison, the Anakites are described as making the Israelites seem like grasshoppers. See also Gibborim. Josephus also described the Amorites"
"Pyramid inch The pyramid inch is a unit of measure claimed by pyramidologists to have been used in ancient times. Supposedly it was one twenty-fifth of a ""sacred cubit"", 1.00106 imperial inches, or 2.5426924 centimetres. The first suggestion that the builders of the Great Pyramid of Giza used units of measure related to modern measures is attributed to Oxford astronomy professor John Greaves (1602–1652), who journeyed to Egypt in 1638 to make measurements of the pyramid. His findings were published in his ""Pyramidographia"" and under his name in an anonymous tract. More than a century later, Greaves' measurements and additional"
"clothing, or bartering food or raw materials. The earliest known uniform systems of measurement seem to have all been created sometime in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC among the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus Valley, and perhaps also Elam in Persia as well. Weights and measures are mentioned in the Bible (Leviticus 19:35–36). It is a commandment to be honest and have fair measures. In the ""Magna Carta"" of 1215 (The Great Charter) with the seal of King John, put before him by the Barons of England, King John agreed in Clause 35 ""There shall be"
"Biblical exegesis the hand measurement, as for example in the Vision of the Temple, Authorized Version , is usually taken to be palm or handbreadth, and in modern translations may be rendered as ""handbreadth"" or ""three inches"". The hand is a traditional unit in the UK. It was standardised at four inches by a statute of King Henry VIII in 1540, but some confusion between the various types of hand measurement, and particularly between the hand and the handsbreadth, appears to have persisted. Phillips's dictionary of 1706 gives four inches for the length of the handful or hand, and three"
"the Hebrew language, and borrowed measurements - the Latin ""mille"", and Iranian ""parasang"", respectively; both were units of itinerant distance, and thus varied according to terrain and stride length, and, in the case of the ""parasang"", also on the speed of travel. The Israelite measurements were related as follows: The biblical ""ell"" is closely related to the cubit, but two different factors are given in the Bible; Ezekiel's measurements imply that the ell was equal to 1 cubit plus 1 palm (""Tefah""), while elsewhere in the Bible, the ell is equated with 1 cubit exactly. Ezekiel's ell, by which he"
"the Sumerian cubit as about . The Near Eastern or Biblical cubit is usually estimated as approximately . Epiphanius of Salamis, in his treatise ""On Weights and Measures"", describes how it was customary, in his day, to take the measurement of the biblical cubit: ""The cubit is a measure, but it is taken from the measure of the forearm. For the part from the elbow to the wrist and the palm of the hand is called the cubit, the middle finger of the cubit measure being also extended at the same time and there being added below (it) the span,"
"Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later Judaic scripture, such as the Mishnah and Talmud. These units of measurement are still an important part of Jewish life today. There is much debate within Judaism, as well as by outside scholars, about the exact relationship between measurements in the system and those in other measurement systems. Classical statements, such as that an ""Etzba"" was seven barleycorns laid side by side, or that a ""Log"" was equal to six"
"Omer (unit) The omer ( ""‘ōmer"") is an ancient Israelite unit of dry measure used in the era of the Temple in Jerusalem. It is used in the Bible as an ancient unit of volume for grains and dry commodities, and the Torah mentions as being equal to one tenth of an ""ephah"". According to the ""Jewish Encyclopedia"" (1906), an ""ephah"" was defined as being 72 ""logs"", and the ""Log"" was equal to the Sumerian ""mina"", which was itself defined as one sixtieth of a ""maris""; the ""omer"" was thus equal to about of a ""maris"". The ""maris"" was defined"
"Great Pyramid"" (1864), claiming that the measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, equivalent to 1.001 British inches, that could have been the standard of measurement by the pyramid's architects. From this he extrapolated a number of other measurements, including the pyramid pint, the sacred cubit, and the pyramid scale of temperature. Smyth claimed—and presumably believed—that the inch was a God-given measure handed down through the centuries from the time of Israel, and that the architects of the pyramid could only have been directed by the hand of God. To"
"Matthew 6:27 Matthew 6:27 is the twenty-seventh verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues the discussion of worry about material provisions. In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The World English Bible translates the passage as: For a collection of other versions see here: In the original Greek this verse speaks of adding one cubit, a word and a measure of length derived from the forearm. It was usually equivalent to about 46 centimetres or 18 inches."
"Smyth subsequently published his book ""Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid"" in 1864 (which he expanded over the years and is also titled ""The Great Pyramid: Its Secrets and Mysteries Revealed""). Smyth claimed that the measurements he obtained from the Great Pyramid of Giza indicated a unit of length, the pyramid inch, equivalent to 1.001 British inches, that could have been the standard of measurement by the pyramid's architects. From this he extrapolated a number of other measurements, including the pyramid pint, the sacred cubit, and the pyramid scale of temperature. Smyth claimed that the pyramid inch was a God-given"
"the common belief that the Bible defines the geometric ratio π (pi) as being exactly equal to 3 and defines it as 3 1/7 instead. Mishnat ha-Middot The Mishnat ha-Middot (; ""treatise of measures"") is considered the earliest known Hebrew treatise on geometry. The treatise was discovered in the Munich Library by Moritz Steinschneider, who dated it between 800 and 1200 C.E. Hermann Schapira argued the treatise dates from an earlier period and Solomon Gandz conjectured Rabbi Nehemiah (c. 150 C.E.) to be the author. The content resembles both the work of Hero of Alexandria (c. 100 C.E.) and that"
"confirmable physical proof of the ark has ever been found. There is no scientific evidence that Noah's Ark existed as it is described in the bible, nor is there evidence in the geologic record for the biblical global flood. The structure of the ark (and the chronology of the flood) are homologous with the Jewish Temple and with Temple worship. Accordingly, Noah's instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. These dimensions are based on a numerological preoccupation with the number sixty, the same"
"Boaz and Jachin According to the Bible, Boaz and Jachin were two copper, brass or bronze pillars which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem. They are sometimes used as symbols in Freemasonry and Tarot. The pillars had a size nearly six feet (1.8 metres) thick and 27 feet (8.2 metres) tall. The eight-foot (2.4 metres) high brass chapiters, or capitals, on top of the columns bore decorations, in brass, of lilies. The original measurement as taken from the Torah was in cubits, which records that the pillars were 18 cubits high and 12 cubits"
"the Hebrews measured the diameter from the outside edge of the rim of the bowl, while the circumference was measured from under the rim, since it cannot be measured with a cord along the outside edge of the rim. After accounting for the width of the brim--""about an hand breadth""--this results in a ratio closer to the true value of . Taking a ""cubit"" to be about 18 inches and a ""handbreadth"" to be about 4 inches, the ratio of the described dimensions of the bowl differs from by less than 1%. Molten Sea The Molten Sea or Brazen Sea"
"8.98–9.07 in (22.81–23.03 cm); ""Amah"" 17.95–18.14 in (45.59–46.08 cm). Alternatively, according to some early authorities a ""zeret"" is two ""tefahim"" instead of three. To the somewhat simple system of distance, the Talmud adds a few more units, namely the double palm (Hebrew: חסיט, ""hasit""), the pace (Hebrew: פסיעה, ""pesiah""), the cord (Hebrew: חבל, ""hebel""), the stadium (Hebrew: ריס, ""ris""), the day's journey (Hebrew:דרך יום, ""derekh yom""), and an undetermined quantity named the garmida (Hebrew: גרמידא). The ""stadium"" appears to have been adopted from Persia, while the ""double palm"" seems to have been derived from the Greek ""dichas"". The relationship between"
"Seah (unit) The se'ah or seah () is a unit of dry measure of ancient origin used in Halakha (Jewish law), which equals one third of an ""ephah"", or ""bath"". Its size in modern units varies widely according to the criteria used for defining it. According to Herbert G. May, chief editor of two Bible-related reference books, the bath may be archaeologically determined to have been about 5.75 gallons (22 liters) from a study of jar remains marked 'bath' and 'royal bath' from Tell Beit Mirsim. Since the ""bath"" unit has been established to be 22 litres, 1 ""se'ah"" would"
"1 Samuel 13:21. Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister's excavations at Gezer (1902-1905 and 1907-1909) were published in 1912 with an illustration showing one such weight, which Macalister compared to another published in 1907 by Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau. Here is the 1611 translation of the King James Version of the Bible: The 1982 New King James Version rendered it: Pim weight Pim weights were polished stones about 15 mm (5/8 inch) diameter, equal to about two-thirds of a Hebrew shekel. Many specimens have been found since their initial discovery early in the 20th century, and each one weighs about 7.6 grams, compared"
"equivalent was ""Decima"" (the 'Tenth'). Varuna in the Rigveda, is described as using the Sun as a measuring rod to lay out space in a creation myth. W. R. Lethaby has commented on how the measurers were seen as solar deities and noted how Vishnu """"measured the regions of the Earth"""". Measuring rods or reeds are mentioned many times in the Bible. A measuring rod and line are seen in a vision of Yahweh in Ezekiel 40:2-3: Another example is Revelation 11:1: The measuring rod also appears in connection with foundation stone rites in Revelation 21:14-15: Measuring rod A measuring"
"were used mostly boiled into thick, long-lasting syrup called “date honey” (""dvash temarim"") for use as a sweetener. The honey in the Biblical reference of “a land flowing with milk and honey” (for example, ) is date honey. The size of various measurements are tied to the specific amounts and sizes of Halachic objects. For example, the minimum width of Tefillin straps is known by Law given to Moses at Sinai to be the size of a grain of barley. Alike, other fruits are used for measuring. Talmud scholars use the verse of Seven Species as a hint for all"
"appearance. Technical details are lacking, since the scribes who wrote the books were not architects or engineers. Nevertheless, the descriptions have inspired modern replicas of the temple and influenced later structures around the world. Reconstructions differ; the following is largely based on ""Easton's Bible Dictionary"" and the ""Jewish Encyclopedia"": The Holy of Holies, or ""Kodesh haKodashim"" in Hebrew, (1 Kings 6:19; 8:6), also called the ""Inner House"" (6:27), (Heb. 9:3) was 20 cubits in length, breadth, and height. The usual explanation for the discrepancy between its height and the 30-cubit height of the temple is that its floor was elevated,"
"in the Old Testament. The kinnor is also the first string instrument to be mentioned in the Bible, appearing in . Josephus describes the kinnor as having 10 strings, made from a sheep's small intestine, and played with a plectrum (pick), though the Book of Samuel notes that David played the kinnor ""with his hand"". The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia also notes that the early church fathers agreed the cithara (kinnor) had its resonator in the lower parts of its body. Like the nevel, the kinnor likely consisted of a soundboard with two arms extending parallel to the body, with"
"to stop the passage of the bill on its second reading, after which the assembly thoroughly ridiculed it before tabling it indefinitely. It is sometimes claimed that the Hebrew Bible implies that "" equals three"", based on a passage in and giving measurements for the round basin located in front of the Temple in Jerusalem as having a diameter of 10 cubits and a circumference of 30 cubits. The issue is discussed in the Talmud and in Rabbinic literature. Among the many explanations and comments are these: There is still some debate on this passage in biblical scholarship. Many reconstructions"
"product of the area of the base and the height; however, the volume of the frustum of a cone or a square pyramid was incorrectly taken as the product of the height and half the sum of the bases. Also, there was a recent discovery in which a tablet used pi as 25/8 (3.125 instead of 3.14159~). The Babylonians are also known for the Babylonian mile, which was a measure of distance equal to about seven modern miles (11 km). This measurement for distances eventually was converted to a time-mile used for measuring the travel of the Sun, therefore, representing"
"a natural source was then added to make up 40 seahs from a natural source; a mikveh rendered unfit for use in this way would need to be completely drained away and refilled from scratch. Seah (unit) The se'ah or seah () is a unit of dry measure of ancient origin used in Halakha (Jewish law), which equals one third of an ""ephah"", or ""bath"". Its size in modern units varies widely according to the criteria used for defining it. According to Herbert G. May, chief editor of two Bible-related reference books, the bath may be archaeologically determined to have"
"(Hebrew: חלק, ""heleq"", plural ""halaqim""), and moments (Hebrew: רגע, ""rega"", plural ""rega'im""), had been adopted; the relationship of these units was: To complicate matters, Halakha, speaking of the relative hour, states that there are always 12 hours between the break of dawn and sunset, so these measurements are averages. For example, in the summer, a day time hour is much longer than a night time hour. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later Judaic scripture, such as"
"of the church. The epigram claims that the church was laid out as a replica of the ancient Jewish Temple with the precise proportions given in the Bible for the Temple of Solomon, and using the royal cubit as a unit of measure, as in its model. Richard Martin Harrison, the site's chief excavator, has reconstructed the church as a roughly square basilica, ca. 52 m long on the sides, with a central nave and two side aisles, fronted by a narthex and preceded by a large atrium of 26 m length. To the north of the atrium, remains of"
"examination, of the use or existence of any such measure as a ‘Pyramid inch,’ or of a cubit of 25.025 British inches."" The value of 1.00106 British inches is calculated as 1/500,000,000 of the Earth's polar diameter. The pyramid inch now appears to have no significant scientific support. No direct evidence for it has ever been found, so pyramidologists argue from an increasing list of alleged numerical coincidences. Pyramid inch The pyramid inch is a unit of measure claimed by pyramidologists to have been used in ancient times. Supposedly it was one twenty-fifth of a ""sacred cubit"", 1.00106 imperial inches,"