But coming nearer to Northern legend, the cromlechs and kistvaens which abound over Southern India are believed to have been built by a dwarf race, a cubit high, who could, nevertheless, move and handle the huge stones easily.
Cardan[A] tells us he saw one carried about in a Parrot's Cage, that was but a Cubit high.
The painted line and upward was five cubits—a cubit the horns, and three cubits the compass, and one cubit the circuit.
But in the latter house there was no wall, only two boards were there, and the length of each one was a cubit and a half.
Below in the plaster in the same corner there was a place a cubit square, with a marble tablet, and a ring fastened in it.
The lower one extended beyond the doorway a cubit on either side.
A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof: four square shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same.
Two pipes of gold were introduced—the length of each of them was a cubit and a half; and they were put into the hole of the board, the place where the bars were put in.
The place of the path for the feet of the priests was a cubiton each side.
And there was a place a cubit square with a tablet of marble, and to it was fastened a ring, and a chain upon which the keys were suspended.
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and onecubit and half the breadth thereof.
The cubit is an ancient measure of length, the value of which varied in different countries and at different times.
So saying, he chopped off about a cubitof the snake's tail.
Two travellers between Teheran and Bagdad met half-way up the vertical face of a rock, on a path only a cubitin width.
Beware of thy old doctors, and their puny messengers of but one cubit high; distrust their pious frauds; and instead of eating their melons, impale on a spit the bearers of them.
The Genii obeyed; and when the workmen had raised their structure a cubit in the day time, two cubits more were added in the night.
It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle, upon this may be seen white lines, representing the figure of a man.
I saw likewise other fish about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.
Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature?
It cannot add one cubit to any man's stature: what crosses can it hinder?
He made also the table of setim wood, in length two cubits, and in breadth one cubit, and in height it was a cubit and a half.
His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man's hand.
And the brim was fourteen cubits long, and fourteen cubits broad in the four corners thereof: and the crown round about it was half a cubit, and the bottom of it one cubit round about: and its steps turned toward the east.
The length of one board was ten cubits; and the breadth was one cubit and a half.
And the four tables for the holocausts were made of square stones: one cubit and a half long, and one cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high: to lay the vessels upon, in which the holocaust and the victim is slain.
He made also the propitiatory, that is, the oracle, of the purest gold, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth.
It shall be a cubit in length, and another in breadth, that is, four square, and two in height.
And Beseleel made also, the ark of setim wood: it was two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, and the height was of one cubit and a half: and he overlaid it with the purest gold within and without.
He made also the alter of incense of setim wood, being a cubit on every side foursquare, and in height two cubits: from the corners of which went out horns.
And there shall hang down a cubit on the one side, and another on the other side, which is over and above in the length of the curtains, fencing both sides of the tabernacle.
When therefore the workmen had undertaken to make the table, they framed it in length two cubits, in breadth one cubit, and in height one cubit and a half; and the entire structure of the work was of gold.
These posts were hollow, and had rooms in them with narrow windows for the porters, and a step before them a cubit broad: and the walls of the porches being six cubits thick, were also hollow for several uses.
In front of a cubit arm erect proper, encircled about the wrist with a wreath of oak and holding in the hand a sword also proper, pommel and hilt or, an escutcheon argent, charged with a goat's head couped sable.
I saw likewise other fishes, about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.
And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
The space also before the little chambers was onecubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.
Landing in silence, they carried the victims for sacrifice to the verge of the grove, and Odysseus with his sword dug a trench, a cubit in length and breadth, and poured about it a libation of mead and water and wine.
A step one cubit broad, which the priests alone might cross, separated the court of Israel from the court of the priests, and, in the middle of this court, the temple properly so called and the altar of burnt offerings stood.
The length of the larger cubit is variously estimated at from eighteen to twenty-two inches.
The cubit which is the unit of measurement is said to be a handbreadth longer than the cubitin common use (ver.
In Egypt the royal cubit exceeded the common by a handbreadth, just as in Ezekiel.
It is probable in any case that the large cubit used by the angel was of the same order of magnitude as the royalcubit of Egypt and Babylon--i.
So saying, he aimed a blow at Gharib, but he avoided it and the flail sank a cubit into the ground.
The ark was made 'of shittim-wood, two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Two cubits and a half was the length, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof'; but the height thereof 'was without measure.
A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof: with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.
From under this sea round about appeared oxen, ten in a cubit did compass it round about (2 Chron 4:3).
But this cubit itself, wherever it came from, has some very remarkable correspondences.
Sidenote: To let the ark be three hundred cubits in length, and fifty in breadth, and thirty in height, and a window in it a cubit square.
The Original Cubit Measure of the Gïzeh Group 15 §3.
It appears to me that no cubit measure to be depended on is either to be got from a stray measuring stick found in the joints of a ruined building, or from any line or dimensions of one of the pyramids.
I ultimately arrived at a cubit as the ancient measure which I have called the R.
I have therefore defined this cubit as follows:--One R.
After the whole proportions had been thus expressed in a cubit evolved from the whole proportions, I established its length in British feet by dividing the base of Cephren, as known, by the number of my cubits representing its base.
I saw likewise other fish, about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.
It has a horn upon its nose, about a cubit in length; this horn is solid, and cleft through the middle.
This difficulty is solved by Buteo and Kircher, who, supposing the common cubit of a foot and a half, prove, geometrically, that the ark was abundantly sufficient for all the animals supposed to be lodged therein.
Jewish cubit was twenty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight inches.
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