Talk:Jewish and biblical units of measurement

Formating

A lot more work needs to be done here, including adding of Hebrew to the article (I don't have a Hebrew keyboard, so its a pain), and enlarging the conversion data as in the source given, and formating it into a table or spreadsheet.--Mrg3105 02:08, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

- Google has a transliterator84.110.57.234 (talk) 19:31, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Biblical cubit

The construction of the Bronze Sea (1 Kings 7:23-26) provides a window into the measure of a cubit, since the volume is 2000 baths. The walls were sloped, since it was shaped like a lily, so a frustum of a cone suffices for an approximation, since an approximation for a bath of about 22 liters was used.

A cubit works out to be about 19.27" [1] This is an elbow to fingertip measurement. Mine is about 19.265" (19¼+1/64") --No938 (talk) 03:44, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Source

Idk if this is needed, but as far as i know there is a very comprehensive list in the stiepler's sefer Birkath Peretz.--84.110.57.234 (talk) 19:37, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Merging

I'm going to merge this article into Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement, which seems more complete. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippychickali (talk • contribs) 23:45, 18 July 2010 (UTC)