ΠΗΧΕΙΣ, πηχεις
PĒCHEIS, pēcheis
Sounds Like: PEE-khees
Translations: cubits, forearms
From the root: ΠΗΧΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a unit of length, specifically the distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger, which was a common ancient measurement. It can also refer to the forearm itself. In a sentence, it would be used to describe a measurement, such as 'the wall was ten cubits high'.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4083 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:84
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:89
- Book 3 — 6:111, 6:115, 6:119, 6:123
- Book 4 — 4:67
- Book 8 — 3:65, 3:66, 3:72, 3:77, 3:95, 3:97
- Book 15 — 11:385, 11:392
- Book 20 — 9:221
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Three — 7:43
- Book Five — 1:36, 4:19, 4:20, 4:21, 4:23, 4:25, 4:38, 4:42, 5:9, 5:20, 5:24, 5:26, 5:42, 5:57, 11:22
- Book Seven — 8:35, 8:54, 8:55, 10:21
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 138:3
Pseudo-Baruch
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 7:20
- Numbers — 35:4, 35:5
- Joshua — 3:4
- 1 Kings — 6:17, 6:19, 7:3, 7:4, 7:14, 7:39
- 2 Kings — 14:13
- 2 Chronicles — 4:3, 25:23
- Ezra (Beta) — 6:3
- Nehemiah — 3:13
- Judith — 1:3, 1:4
- Proverbs — 29:37
- Ezekiel — 40:13, 40:14, 40:19, 40:23, 40:27, 40:29, 40:33, 40:36, 40:47, 42:2, 42:4, 42:17, 43:14, 43:16, 43:17, 45:2
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 3:47
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:47
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΗΧΥΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΗΧΕΑΣ — cubits
- ΠΗΧΕΙ — (to) a cubit, (to) a forearm
- ΠΗΧΕΙΣΕἸΣ — cubits, a cubit
- ΠΗΧΕΟΣ — of a cubit, of a forearm, of an arm
- ΠΗΧΕΣΙ — to cubits, for cubits, by cubits, with cubits
- ΠΗΧΕΣΙΝ — cubits, by cubits
- ΠΗΧΕΩΝ — of cubits, of forearms
- ΠΗΧΕΩΝΤΟ — of cubits, of forearms, of ells
- ΠΗΧΕΩΣ — of a cubit, of a forearm
- ΠΗΧΗ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, an arm
- ΠΗΧΙ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, arm
- ΠΗΧΙΑΙΑ — a cubit long, a cubit in length, one cubit long
- ΠΗΧΥ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, an arm
- ΠΗΧΥΑΙΑ — a cubit long, a cubit in length
- ΠΗΧΥΑΙΟΝ — a cubit long, a cubit high, a cubit in size, cubit-sized
- ΠΗΧΥΑΙΟΣ — of a cubit, a cubit long, a cubit high
- ΠΗΧΥΑΙΩΝ — of a cubit, a cubit long, a cubit high, a cubit thick
- ΠΗΧΥΝ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, a forearm
- ΠΗΧΥΣ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, arm
- ΠΗΧΩ — cubit, a cubit
- ΠΗΧΩΝ — of cubits, of forearms
- ΠΗΧΩΝΔ' — of cubits, four, of cubits, and, of cubits, but
- ΤΑΠΗΧΗ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, arm
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