Measures of Length
10 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Cubit
- Genesis 6:15–16 And this is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. …
- Deuteronomy 3:11 (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)
Fathom
- Acts 27:28 They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.
Furlong
- Luke 24:13 That same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.
- John 11:13 They thought that Jesus was talking about actual sleep, but He was speaking about the death of Lazarus.
Handbreadth
- Exodus 25:25 And make a rim around it a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
- Psalm 39:5 You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
Mile
- Matthew 5:41 and if someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
Span
- Exodus 28:16 It must be square when folded over double, a span long and a span wide.
- 1 Samuel 17:4 Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.