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  2. Cubit - Wikipedia

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    These lengths typically ranged from 44.4 to 52.92 cm (1 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in to 1 ft 8 + 13 ⁄ 16 in), with an ancient Roman cubit being as long as 120 cm (3 ft 11 in). Cubits of various lengths were employed in many parts of the world in antiquity, during the Middle Ages and as recently as early modern times. The term is still used in ...

  3. Og - Wikipedia

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    If the giant king's bedstead was built in proportion to his size as most beds are, he may have been between 9 and 13 feet (2.7 and 4.0 m) in height. However, later Rabbinic tradition has it, that the length of his bedstead was measured with the cubits of Og himself.

  4. List of tallest people - Wikipedia

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    As it is claimed in Bible, Og's sarcophagus (bed [197] or probably couch [198]) was nine cubits long and four cubits wide which is approximately 4.1 m × 1.8 m (13.5 ft × 6 ft). [ 199 ] [ 200 ] Historicity of Og is disputed, [ 199 ] his sarcophagus could be a dolmen .

  5. Ancient Roman units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    foot and a palm 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 pedes 370 mm 1.214 ft cubitum cubit: 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 pedes 444 mm 1.456 ft gradus pes sestertius step: 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 pedes 0.74 m 2.427 ft passus pace: 5 pedes 1.48 m 4.854 ft decempeda pertica: perch: 10 pedes 2.96 m 9.708 ft actus: path, track 120 pedes 35.5 m 116.496 ft 24 passus or 12 decembeda stadium: stade 625 pedes

  6. List of human-based units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    2.3 Cubits. 2.4 Palms. 2.5 Inches. 2.6 Feet. 3 Loudness. 4 Mass. 5 Time. ... Foot - length of the human foot; ... This page was last edited on 4 October 2024, ...

  7. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    421.3–501.3 ft 128.4–152.8 m A ris is 2 ⁄ 15, or about 0.13, of a mil. According to Rashi (Baba Kama 79b, s.v. שלושים ריס), thirty ris is equivalent to 4 mil. Maimonides concurs in his commentary on Mishnah yoma 6:4, where 90 ris is put at 12 mil. Mil (Milin) מיל mile

  8. Goliath - Wikipedia

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    The oldest manuscripts, namely the Dead Sea Scrolls text of Samuel from the late 1st century BCE, the 1st-century CE historian Josephus, and the major Septuagint manuscripts, all give Goliath's height as "four cubits and a span" (6 feet 9 inches or 2.06 metres), whereas the Masoretic Text has "six cubits and a span" (9 feet 9 inches or 2.97 ...

  9. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    pied – Foot, varied through times, the Paris pied de roi is 324.84 mm. Used by Coulomb in manuscripts relating to the inverse square law of electrostatic repulsion. Isaac Newton used the "Paris foot" in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. 1 Roman cubit = 444 mm (so 10000 Roman cubits = 4.44 km, a closer approximation to 1 ⁄ 25 ...