קוֹמָה
qôwmâh · H6967 · Hebrew · 45 occurrences
Meanings
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height, stature
Vertical height of an object
ExamplesGenesis 6:15 “This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Exodus 25:10 “Now they shall construct an ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.
Exodus 25:23 “You shall also make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide, and one and a half cubits high.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
36 occurrences in 9 groups
- הוּhis 21
- כֹתֶרֶתcapital 4
- עַמּוּדpillar 3
- Other words · 6 groups that occur once or twice (8) 8
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זֹאתthis 1
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- גָּבַהּto be tall 2
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- כָּרַתto cut off, to make (a covenant) 2
What it is said to bePredicate
29 occurrences in 5 groups
- אַמָּהcubit 25
- חֵצִיhalf 5
- חָמֵשׁfive 2
- עֶשֶׂרten 1
- שָׁלוֹשׁthree 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- גָּבֹהַּhigh 1
- מְלֹאgroup 1
- רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 1
- רוּםto be high, to raise, to lift up 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὕψος hýpsos · G5311 · height, high, world above
- Greek ὕψος denotes abstract height/elevation and translates Hebrew קוֹמָה in contexts describing physical stature or vertical dimension; both terms share the core semantic domain of measured vertical extent.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Dimension002001001020
- The word means height or stature, used repeatedly of the measured height of the ark (Genesis 6:15), the ark of the covenant (Exodus 25:10), the table (Exodus 25:23), and the altar (Exodus 27:1).
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6967. qomah קֹמָה קוֺמָה,45 noun feminine height; — absolute קוֺמָה Exo 38:18 +, קֹמָה…
קֹמָה קוֺמָה,45
noun feminine height; — absolute קוֺמָה Exo 38:18 +, קֹמָה Exo 27:18; construct קוֺמַת 1Ki 6:26 +; suffix קוֺמָתוֺ 1Ki 7:23 +, קֹמָתוֺ Exo 25:10 +, etc.; —
1 height, of person, stature 1Sa 16:7; Eze 13:18; Son 7:8; מְלֹאקֿוֺמָתוֺ 1Sa 28:20 his full length.
2 of tree 2Ki 19:23 = Isa 37:24; in figure Isa 10:33; Eze 31:3, Eze 31:5, Eze 31:10, Eze 31:14; of vine (figurative) Eze 19:11 and ק ׳שִׁפְלַת Eze 17:6 low of height.
3 of artificial structures: temple, its parts, furnishings, etc., 1Ki 6:2 1Ki 6:12t. 1 Kings 6; 1 Kings 7; 2Ki 25:17 (twice in verse) = Jer 52:21-22, 2Ch 4:1-2, 2Ch 6:13; a wall Eze 40:5; tabernacle and furnishings Exo 25:10, Exo 25:23 Exo 25:8t. Exodus (all P); Noah's ark Gen 6:15 (P)
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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