אַמָּה
ʼammâh · am-maw'
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
Lexicon
Derivation: prolonged from H517 (אֵם);
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
- properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit
- also, a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cubit, [phrase] hundred (by exchange for H3967 (מֵאָה)), measure, post.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › water, chaos, the mighty deep › to reveal, behold
Strength, the leader of water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אַמָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
247 occurrences · 247 OT · 0 NT · 71 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- cubits189 · 79%
- thereof, and a cubit8 · 3%
- two cubits6 · 3%
- a cubit6 · 3%
- cubit5 · 2%
- and a cubit4 · 2%
- of it, and a cubit2 · 1%
- in a cubit2 · 1%
- was a cubit2 · 1%
- and in a cubit1 · 0%
- shall it be: and two cubits1 · 0%
- thereof, and one cubit1 · 0%
- of it was a cubit1 · 0%
- of it a cubit1 · 0%
- and two cubits1 · 0%
- and as it were two cubits1 · 0%
- of it, after the cubit1 · 0%
- by cubits1 · 0%
- and the posts1 · 0%
- and the measure1 · 0%
- long by the cubit1 · 0%
- was one cubit1 · 0%
- of a cubit1 · 0%
- five1 · 0%
- after the cubits1 · 0%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.