What Does “Cubit” Mean in the Bible?
Measure
A measure of length: from the elbow to the tip of the fingers, about a foot and a half.
A detail
- In the Bible: Noah’s ark was 300 cubits long. The Ark of the Covenant, two and a half cubits.
Where it appears in the Bible
Genesis 6:15; Exodus 25:10; Daniel 3:1
What the Bible says
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Exodus 25:10
Frame an ark of setim wood, the length whereof shall be of two cubits and a half: the breadth, a cubit and a half: the height, likewise, a cubit and a half.
Daniel 3:1
King Nabuchodonosor made a statue of gold, of sixty cubits high, and six cubits broad, and he set it up in the plain of Dura of the province of Babylon.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Dictionary.com, “cubit”