πῆχυς
cubit
‘cubit’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G4083 appears in the Book of Luke — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
πηχυς (pēchys) is a Greek noun most often rendered “cubit.” The Greek New Testament uses it only 4 verses. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Debuting at Matthew 6:27, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. See the sense tree, 4-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4083 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,877
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,877 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 75%
- Johannine 2 verses · 50%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 25%
- Revelation 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Cubit 2×, Cubits 2×
- American Standard Version: Cubit 2×, Cubits 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cubits 1×, Hour 1×, Single hour 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Cubit 2×, Cubits 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4083 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4083 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4083 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4083 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a cubit
- a measure of length equal to distance from the joint of the elbow to the tip of the middle finger (i.e. about 18 inches…
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; the fore arm that is (as a measure) a cubit : - cubit.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4083 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πηχῶν pēchō̂n | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Masculine | John 21:8 | 2 |
| πῆχυν pē̂chyn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Matthew 6:27 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word πηχυς appears 230 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 122 verses in 16 books.
- 230
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 122
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 16 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 16 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 6:15 πῆχυς
- Exodus 25:10 πῆχυς
- Numbers 35:4 πῆχυς
- Deuteronomy 3:11 πῆχυς
- Joshua 3:4 πῆχυς
- 1 Samuel 17:4 πῆχυς
- 1 Kings 6:2 πῆχυς
- 2 Kings 14:13 πῆχυς
- 2 Chronicles 3:3 πῆχυς
- Ezra 6:3 πῆχυς
- Esther 5:12 πῆχυς
- Proverbs 31:19 πῆχυς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G4083) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 122. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 6:15 πῆχυς This is how you shall make it. The length of the ark will be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
- Genesis 6:16 πῆχυς You shall make a roof in the ark, and to a cubit shall you finish it upward. You shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second, and third levels.
- Genesis 7:20 πῆχυς The waters prevailed fifteen cubits upward, and the mountains were covered.
- Exodus 25:10 πῆχυς "They shall make an ark of acacia wood. Its length shall be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and a cubit and a half its height.
- Exodus 25:17 πῆχυς You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 25:23 πῆχυς "You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.
- Exodus 26:2 πῆχυς The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: all the curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:8 πῆχυς The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.
- Exodus 26:13 πῆχυς The cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the tent on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Exodus 26:16 πῆχυς Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and one and a half cubits the breadth of each board.
- Exodus 27:1 πῆχυς "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits.
- Exodus 27:9 πῆχυς "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 27:11 πῆχυς Likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings one hundred cubits long, and the pillars of it twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
- Exodus 27:12 πῆχυς For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
- Exodus 27:13 πῆχυς The breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.
- Exodus 27:14 πῆχυς The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:15 πῆχυς For the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
- Exodus 27:16 πῆχυς For the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 27:18 πῆχυς The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits, of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 30:2 πῆχυς Its length shall be a cubit, and its breadth a cubit. It shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits. Its horns shall be of one piece with it.
- Exodus 37:2 πῆχυς He overlaid it with pure gold inside and outside, and made a molding of gold for it round about.
- Exodus 37:10 πῆχυς He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half.
- Exodus 37:11 πῆχυς He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it.
- Exodus 37:12 πῆχυς He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it.
- Exodus 37:13 πῆχυς He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet.
- Exodus 37:16 πῆχυς He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
- Numbers 35:4 πῆχυς The suburbs of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall be from the wall of the city and outward one thousand cubits round about.
- Numbers 35:5 πῆχυς You shall measure outside of the city for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the midst. This shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
- Deuteronomy 3:11 πῆχυς (For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the Rephaim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; isn't it in Rabbah of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length of it, and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.)
- Joshua 3:4 πῆχυς Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
- 1 Samuel 17:4 πῆχυς There went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
- 1 Kings 6:2 πῆχυς The house which king Solomon built for Yahweh, the length of it was sixty cubits, and the breadth of it twenty [cubits], and the height of it thirty cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:3 πῆχυς The porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length of it, according to the breadth of the house; [and] ten cubits was the breadth of it before the house.
- 1 Kings 6:6 πῆχυς The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:10 πῆχυς He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:16 πῆχυς He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls [of the ceiling]: he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.
- 1 Kings 6:17 πῆχυς The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
- 1 Kings 6:20 πῆχυς Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
- 1 Kings 6:23 πῆχυς In the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
- 1 Kings 6:24 πῆχυς Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
- 1 Kings 6:26 πῆχυς The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.
- 1 Kings 7:3 πῆχυς It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.
- 1 Kings 7:4 πῆχυς There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:8 πῆχυς His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom Solomon had taken as wife), like this porch.
- 1 Kings 7:10 πῆχυς The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:11 πῆχυς Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.
- 1 Kings 7:14 πῆχυς He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and skill, to work all works in brass. He came to king Solomon, and performed all his work.
- 1 Kings 7:18 πῆχυς So he made the pillars; and there were two rows round about on the one network, to cover the capitals that were on the top of the pillars: and so did he for the other capital.
- 1 Kings 7:21 πῆχυς He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name of it Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name of it Boaz.
- 1 Kings 7:39 πῆχυς He set the bases, five on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G4083) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
