Strong G4083πῆχυς
cubit/hour
- Transliteration
- pēchus
- Pronunciation
- pay'-khoos
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
Of uncertain affinity; the fore arm that is (as a measure) a cubit: - cubit.
Detailed definition
πῆχυς, -εως genitive pl., -ῶν (for Att.. -εων, see WH, App., 157; Thackeray, Gr., 151; Deiss., BS, 153),
[in LXX chiefly and frequently for אַמָּה;]
1. the forearm (Hom.).
2. As a measure of length, a cubit: Mat.6:27, Luk.12:25, Jhn.21:8, Rev.21:17.†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly and frequently for אַמָּה;]
1. the forearm (Hom.).
2. As a measure of length, a cubit: Mat.6:27, Luk.12:25, Jhn.21:8, Rev.21:17.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G4083 appears in 4 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- cubit4
First verses
- Matthew 6:27Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
- Luke 12:25And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
- John 21:8And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
- Revelation 21:17And he measured the wall thereof, an hundred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel.
Occurrences by book
Detailed Greek dictionary
πῆχυς
(Aeolic dialect πᾶχυς [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33))], ὁ, genitive πήχεος [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 2, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.126d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 813a10, LXX.Exo.25.9, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.44.2, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 73.42, πήχεως 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 606a14 (variant -εος), “PCair.Zen.” 484.10 (3rd c.BC), πήχως (condemned by 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 222) corrected to πήχεος “PCair.Zen.” 665.1 (3rd c.BC))]: genitive plural πήχεων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12.314.39, 22.1673.15, “PCair.Zen.” 353.10 (3rd c.BC))]; later contraction πηχῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.16 codices, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1302b37, “PCair.Zen.” 54.4 (3rd c.BC), “PStrassb.” 85.20 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 2, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 222)], Moer.p.327 P.:—forearm, from wrist to elbow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 2, 3, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.140)]; opposed to βραχίων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 75a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5)]: in Poets, generally, arm, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἑὸν φίλον υίὸν ἐχεύατο πήχεε λευκώ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.314, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.38, 23.240)]; λευκὸν ἀντείνασα π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 13.4, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1466 (Lyric poetry))]; λαιὸν ἔπαιρε π. [Refs ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 728.)]
2 Anatomy texts, ulna, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 80, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 2.2, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de signis fracturarum - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 20.)]
II centrepiece, which joined the two horns of the bow, τόν ῥ᾽ [ὀϊστὸν] ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρήν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.419; ὁ δὲ τόξου πῆχυν ἄνελκε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.375, 13.583.)]
III in plural, horns of the lyre, opposed to ζυγόν (the bridge), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.192; πήχεις ἐναρμόσας καὶ ζυγώσας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 7.4.)]
III.2 also, ={ζυγόν}, crosspiece or bridge in which the horns were fitted, [Refs (Artemo Hist. 12.)]
IV in the balance, beam, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1013.32, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 29.)]
V as a measure of length, distance from the point of the elbow to that of the middle finger, = 6 παλασταί = 24 δάκτυλοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.158; π. μέτριος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178)]; π. ἰδιωτικός, κοινός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 16; but π. βασιλήϊος, = 27 δάκτυλοι, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178, 7.117; ὁ Αἰγύπτιος π. τυγχάνει ἴσος ἐὼν τῷ Σαμίῳ [prev. author] 2.168, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista [prev. cited])]; for later measurements, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Deff.” 131, “Geometry texts” 4.2, +others)]
V.2 cubit-rule, as we say 'foot-rule', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 799, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.47; π. ἀκαμπής “Anthologia Graeca” 6.204 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]; as epithet of Nemesis, [Refs (“APl.” 4.223, 224.)]
V.3 metaphorically of any small amount (compare πήχυιος), [NT (NT.Matt.6.27)]; κατὰ πῆχυν little by little, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus “Procl.” 26.)]
VI πήχεις, οἱ, the cubits (of inundation), represented in pictures as children one cubit high playing round the Nile, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 6, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.5)]. (Cf. Sanskrit bāhú-, Avest. bāzu- (masculine) 'arm', ONorse bógr 'shoulder'.)
(Aeolic dialect πᾶχυς [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 33))], ὁ, genitive πήχεος [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 2, +others, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.126d, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 813a10, LXX.Exo.25.9, +others, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 10.44.2, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 73.42, πήχεως 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 606a14 (variant -εος), “PCair.Zen.” 484.10 (3rd c.BC), πήχως (condemned by 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 222) corrected to πήχεος “PCair.Zen.” 665.1 (3rd c.BC))]: genitive plural πήχεων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“IG” 12.314.39, 22.1673.15, “PCair.Zen.” 353.10 (3rd c.BC))]; later contraction πηχῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.7.16 codices, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1302b37, “PCair.Zen.” 54.4 (3rd c.BC), “PStrassb.” 85.20 (2nd c.BC), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ σημείων καὶ σημειώσεων” 2, 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 222)], Moer.p.327 P.:—forearm, from wrist to elbow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀγμῶν” 2, 3, +others, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.140)]; opposed to βραχίων, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 75a, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5)]: in Poets, generally, arm, ἀμφὶ δ᾽ ἑὸν φίλον υίὸν ἐχεύατο πήχεε λευκώ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.314, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.38, 23.240)]; λευκὸν ἀντείνασα π. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 13.4, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1466 (Lyric poetry))]; λαιὸν ἔπαιρε π. [Refs ([prev. author] “Heracl.” 728.)]
2 Anatomy texts, ulna, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 80, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 2.2, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de signis fracturarum - Physici et Medici Graeci Minores” 20.)]
II centrepiece, which joined the two horns of the bow, τόν ῥ᾽ [ὀϊστὸν] ἐπὶ πήχει ἑλὼν ἕλκεν νευρήν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.419; ὁ δὲ τόξου πῆχυν ἄνελκε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.375, 13.583.)]
III in plural, horns of the lyre, opposed to ζυγόν (the bridge), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.192; πήχεις ἐναρμόσας καὶ ζυγώσας 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 7.4.)]
III.2 also, ={ζυγόν}, crosspiece or bridge in which the horns were fitted, [Refs (Artemo Hist. 12.)]
IV in the balance, beam, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 22.1013.32, “Theologumena Arithmeticae” 29.)]
V as a measure of length, distance from the point of the elbow to that of the middle finger, = 6 παλασταί = 24 δάκτυλοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.158; π. μέτριος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178)]; π. ἰδιωτικός, κοινός, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (Scholia 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cat.” 16; but π. βασιλήϊος, = 27 δάκτυλοι, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.178, 7.117; ὁ Αἰγύπτιος π. τυγχάνει ἴσος ἐὼν τῷ Σαμίῳ [prev. author] 2.168, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista [prev. cited])]; for later measurements, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Deff.” 131, “Geometry texts” 4.2, +others)]
V.2 cubit-rule, as we say 'foot-rule', [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 799, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.47; π. ἀκαμπής “Anthologia Graeca” 6.204 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus))]; as epithet of Nemesis, [Refs (“APl.” 4.223, 224.)]
V.3 metaphorically of any small amount (compare πήχυιος), [NT (NT.Matt.6.27)]; κατὰ πῆχυν little by little, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th-6th c.AD: Marinus Biographus “Procl.” 26.)]
VI πήχεις, οἱ, the cubits (of inundation), represented in pictures as children one cubit high playing round the Nile, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Rh.Pr.” 6, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 1.5)]. (Cf. Sanskrit bāhú-, Avest. bāzu- (masculine) 'arm', ONorse bógr 'shoulder'.)