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# גֹּמֶד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1574

**cubit** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cubit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1574/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫מֶד: n.m. shortcubit [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1574/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. shortcubit (from elbow to knuckles of clenched (contracted) hand; Aq on Ez 27:11, Ra al.; Gk. πυγμή; NH גּוֹמֶד cubit; so Aramaic גַּרְמִידָא ChWB 1. 155, ܓܰܪܡܺܝܕܳܐ (lexx.))—Ju 3:16 of Ehud’s sword ג׳ אָרְכָּהּ (v GFM).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[was\] a cubit (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.3.16/#tree)

וַיַּעַשׂ֩ ל֨וֹ אֵה֜וּד חֶ֗רֶב וְלָ֛הּ שְׁנֵ֥י פֵי֖וֹת גֹּ֣מֶד אָרְכָּ֑הּ וַיַּחְגֹּ֤ר אוֹתָהּ֙ מִתַּ֣חַת לְמַדָּ֔יו עַ֖ל יֶ֥רֶךְ יְמִינֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.made for himself Ehud a.sword and.\[belonged\] to it two mouths \[was\].a.cubit length its and he.girded it from under to garments his on the.thigh his.right.side his

*JPS 1917:* And Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he girded it under his raiment upon his right thigh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1574.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1574/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).