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What is a cubit?

What is a cubit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical units of measure) Various former units of length notionally based on the distance from a grown man's elbow to his fingertips, standardized in different places and times at values between 35 and 60 cm.
  2. (anatomy) The ulna.
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The basic subunit was the digit, doubtlessly a finger's breadth, of which there were 28 in the royal cubit.
It seems a long way from the cubit of Noah's time to the metre of 1793 and the light ray of today.
I saw likewise other fish about a cubit in length, that had heads like owls.
At this height the statue would have measured between three and seven feet, depending on the length of the cubit.
But the Ethiop cannot change his skin, nor can any man add a cubit to his stature.
The basic measuring instrument was the cubit rod, the cubit being the length of the pharaoh's arm from his elbow to the tip of his fingers.

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