ΠΗΧΩΝ, πηχων
PĒCHŌN, pēchōn
Sounds Like: PAY-khone
Translations: of cubits, of forearms
From the root: ΠΗΧΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a cubit, which is an ancient unit of length based on the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was commonly used for measuring distances or dimensions, such as the height of a structure or the length of an object. It can also refer to the forearm itself.
Inflection: Genitive, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G4083 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
- 1 Enoch — 7:2
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:35
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 3:77
- Book 3 — 6:108, 6:130, 6:139, 7:181
- Book 4 — 5:98
- Book 5 — 2:126
- Book 6 — 9:171
- Book 7 — 12:303
- Book 8 — 3:64, 3:65, 3:71, 3:72, 3:74, 3:77, 3:79, 3:81, 3:85, 3:88, 3:90, 5:133, 5:134
- Book 9 — 9:201, 10:219
- Book 10 — 10:213
- Book 11 — 1:13, 4:99, 6:246
- Book 12 — 2:64
- Book 15 — 11:391
- Book 20 — 9:221
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 4:28, 4:30, 4:31, 4:35, 4:36, 4:40, 5:5, 5:13, 5:14, 5:19, 5:20, 5:22, 5:25, 5:32, 5:36, 5:38, 5:41, 5:57, 5:59, 11:23
- Book Six — 2:74
- Book Seven — 6:12
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 27:9, 27:11, 27:12, 27:15, 27:16, 27:18, 37:2
- Deuteronomy — 3:11
- 1 Kings — 6:18, 7:8
- 2 Chronicles — 6:13
- Esther — 5:14, 7:9
- Judith — 1:2, 1:3, 1:4
- Jeremiah — 52:21
- Ezekiel — 40:5, 40:7, 40:9, 40:11, 40:12, 40:15, 40:21, 40:25, 40:48, 40:49, 41:1, 41:2, 41:3, 41:4, 41:5, 41:9, 41:10, 41:11, 41:12, 41:13, 41:14, 41:22, 42:4, 42:8, 42:20, 43:14, 43:15, 43:16, 43:17, 46:22
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 3:1
- Enoch — 7:2
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ΠΗΧΕΙΣ — cubits, forearms
- 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
- ΠΗΧΩΝΔ' — of cubits, four, of cubits, and, of cubits, but
- ΤΑΠΗΧΗ — cubit, a cubit, forearm, arm
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