Second, you're familiar with the ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Hebrews using the measurement of cubits74? Standard cubits are 6 palms x 4 fingers = 24 digits. (See Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.) But because these ancients practiced sacred geometry with its precept "As Above, So Below", they added a palm to create the sacred royal cubits of 7 palms x 4 fingers = 28 digits. This is well-documented and indisputable.
But it is only true for the Egyptians (I won't dispute that the Egyptians used palms/fingers) and not the Hebrews. The Hebrew measure of a cubit uses the forearm (the word cubit is derived from the Latin
cubitus, meaning "lower arm"). You want well-documented and indisputable? Here we go:
“How long is a cubit?” The answer, however, is not certain because ancient people groups assigned different lengths to the term “cubit” (Hebrew word אמה [ammah]), the primary unit of measure in the Old Testament.
The length of a cubit was based on the distance from the elbow to the fingertips, so it varied between different ancient groups of people. (answersingenesis.com)
What Is a Cubit?
A cubit is an ancient measurement of length based on the distance from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger. (arkencounter.com)
Hebrews `ammah; i.e., "mother of the arm," the fore-arm, is a word derived from the Latin cubitus, the lower arm. It is difficult to determine the exact length of this measure, from the uncertainty whether it included the entire length from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger, or only from the elbow to the root of the hand at the wrist. The probability is that the longer was the original cubit. The common computation as to the length of the cubit makes it 20.24 inches for the ordinary cubit, and 21.888 inches for the sacred one. This is the same as the Egyptian measurements. (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
1. (n.) The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.
2. (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)
The standard for measures of length among the Hebrews. They derived it from the Babylonians, but a similar measure was used in Egypt with which they must have been familiar. The length of the cubit is variously estimated, since there seems to have been a double standard in both countries, and because we have no undisputed example of the cubit remaining to the present time. The original cubit was the length of the forearm, from the elbow to the end of the middle finger, as is implied from the derivation of the word in Hebrew and in Latin (cubitum). (International Bible Encyclopedia)
an ancient linear unit based on the length of the forearm, from elbow to the tip of the middle finger, usually from 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53 cm). (dictionary.com)
Cubit [N] Heb. 'ammah; i.e., "mother of the arm," the fore-arm, is a word derived from the Latin cubitus, the lower arm. It is difficult to determine the exact length of this measure, from the uncertainty whether it included the entire length from the elbow to the tip of the longest finger, or only from the elbow to the root of the hand at the wrist. The probability is that the longer was the original cubit. The common computation as to the length of the cubit makes it 20.24 inches for the ordinary cubit, and 21.888 inches for the sacred one. This is the same as the Egyptian measurements. (biblestudy.com)
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Cubit, unit of linear measure used by many ancient and medieval peoples. It may have originated in Egypt about 3000 bc; it thereafter became ubiquitous in the ancient world. The cubit, generally taken as equal to 18 inches (457 mm), was based on the length of the arm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger and was considered the equivalent of 6 palms or 2 spans. In some ancient cultures it was as long as 21 inches (531 mm). (britannica.com)
Go ahead, Brad. Tell me the Encyclopedia Britannica is wrong. Tell me Merriam-Webster is wrong. Tell me the Biblical scholars are wrong. (And bear in mind, Iam only talking about the Hebrew cubit, not the Egyptian one.)
You see, Brad, this is what real research looks like. It entails much more than just reading a
crappy (your description*, not mine) Wikipedia article.
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Have you got a source for that? And none of those crappy Wikipedia articles.
Note: When I use a link to Wikipedia, that's not meant as a 'final proof". Wikipedia articles are very easy to use as links without having to google anything. They provide sources for the topic if further research is desired.
So what you are saying, basically, is you don't have the patience to do the actual work. But you expect us to do it for you every time you say "Google that".
Sorry about this second post, but I wanted to impart this information to
@Brad Watson_Miami separately from the long post above. The link I posted in the quote above should perhaps be removed. I know it takes you to your Google library, just as it takes me to my Google library, just as it will take any Google+ member to their Google library. I don't know how it works for non-Google+ members, perhaps someone here will be able to tell us.
Perhaps you need to include the information after the "?" as well -- but that's just a guess on my part.
